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Executive Team

Redwood Systems' executive team has extensive experience across high-performance networking, lighting systems, energy efficiency, energy management and green building solutions.

Dave Leonard
CEO

Dave founded Redwood Systems with the driving belief that LED lighting presented entirely new opportunities to create energy-optimized commercial lighting and smart building solutions. Prior to forming Redwood, Dave was VP and GM of Cisco System’s Desktop Switching Business Unit (DSBU), Cisco’s largest and most profitable business unit with revenues reaching $6 billion. Along with LAN access, DSBU also provides switching solutions for Metro Ethernet, Industrial Ethernet, and Data Center Blade Servers. During his career at Cisco, Dave held several executive management positions including: VP and GMP of the Wireless Networking Business Unit (WNBU) and VP of Engineering for WNBU

Dave joined Cisco through the acquisition of Grand Junction Networks in 1995. At Grand Junction, Dave served as an engineering leader charged with developing Grand Junction’s first 100 mbs Ethernet switch. Prior to Grand Junction, Dave held leadership positions at Sun Microsystems, Amdahl Corporation, Cray Research and Hewlett-Packard.

In addition to his executive role at Redwood Systems, Dave served as Executive Chairman of the Board for enterprise mobility provider Agito Networks through its acquisition by Shoretel in 2010.  Dave earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado.

Mark Covaro
CTO

Mark is a co-founder of Redwood Systems and has over 20 years of experience as a system architect and designer. For the last 12 years, he has been working on electrical, mechanical, and thermal architecture for networking systems. His specialty has been in analog design, including high speed signaling physics and power system design. Mark has worked at Cray Research, Amdahl, and Sun Microsystems as a system designer and architect.

Mark has worked on three engineering teams (Cray Research, AMD, and Cisco Systems) which have each shipped over a billion dollars of product. Mr. Covaro earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A & M University.

Tom Carlson
CFO

Tom has successfully guided technology companies to significant revenue growth with more than 20 years of experience in financial operations and has taken multiple private companies through successful acquisitions and IPO. Previously, he was the vice president of finance and CFO at Power Assure, a data center energy management company. Tom served as vice president of finance and operations and CFO at a variety of hardware and software companies such as Optichron, Caspian Networks, Sanera Systems and Silicon Gaming.  Tom earned his BS degree in finance and accounting from the University of Cincinnati and his MBA from Xavier University.

Kirk Roller
EVP Sales and Business Development

Kirk is an energy industry and networking sales veteran having held senior management positions with solar development and manufacturing companies SunEdison Corporation, Solyndra and Carlisle Energy Services.  Kirk led Worldwide Sales and then became President and COO at Emulex Corporation, a high speed storage provider to companies like EMC, IBM, and HP.  Prior to Emulex, he was Director and General Manager of Compaq’s Computer Networking Division in Austin.   Kirk has a BBA degree from The University of Texas at Austin. 

Stewart Findlater
VP Engineering

Stewart has 20 years of experience in a variety of engineering disciplines. Before joining Redwood Systems, he worked for Cisco Systems as the Director of Engineering for the Desktop Switching Business Unit (DSBU) were he brought many industry leading networking products to market. Stewart has worked at Grand Junction Networks as an ASIC and system design engineer, and Interlink Electronics as a product design engineer. Stewart is author or co‑author for 12 U.S. patents, and holds a BS Degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Stacey Leuzze
VP Customer Advocacy
Stacey has 20 years of experience in the high tech industry in a variety of engineering, operations, and supply chain disciplines. Prior to joining Redwood Systems, Stacey acted as the Senior Operations Manager for Cisco Systems' Desktop Switching Business Unit.  Stacey has also acted as a Director of HW and SW teams at Hewlett Packard's Network Server Division.  She has extensive experience working directly with customers on co-developed custom mobility solutions. Stacey holds a BSEE degree and an MS in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.
Frank Kull
VP Operations

Frank has 20 years of operations success with leading high-technology companies that are in dynamic, high growth markets. He has extensive experience in manufacturing, supply chain management, logistics, quality systems, new product introduction and strategic planning. Prior to joining Redwood Systems, Kull was the Vice President of Operations at Pliant Technology. He’s also held director level positions at Google, Cisco Systems and Polycom. Kull earned his MBA at the University of San Francisco, and holds a B.S. degree in business management.