Dan Simpkins founded Hillcrest Labs in 2001 with a team of experienced technical and business professionals to create a revolution in entertainment.
Prior to founding Hillcrest, Simpkins was vice president and general manager of the SALIX Switching Division of Tellabs, Inc., which was established in 2000 when he sold Voice over IP leader SALIX Technologies to Tellabs for $300 million. Simpkins founded SALIX in 1990 and continued as president and CEO through the sale.
Dan Simpkins received undergraduate and Master's degrees in engineering from Cornell University.
I think you know, it's interesting in my first business, the idea basically came to me which is you know, a friend of mine called me up one day and said, I've got a great idea, can you go build it and that's... and it was fun to just go try somebody else's idea and it turns out we built the business...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
Register & Subscribe
Login
