Leadership Team
Ben Askarinam
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Ben’s leadership of Interface Masters over the last two decades is forged with a visionary perspective combined with his operational focus and customer-first approach. This has made the company a premier supplier of market-leading network equipment solutions, sold primarily to OEM customers, serving cutting-edge new companies to major industry-leading suppliers. Core to his approach towards networking solutions is that all the products are designed and manufactured in the U.S.A. Ben’s success and insight into the networking solutions market presented him with an opportunity where he made the decision to spin off a new family of Network Visibility solutions in a new company called Niagara Networks.
Before founding Interface Masters Technologies, Ben served in engineering and executive roles at Xerox Corporation.
Jennifer Tam
VP of Operations
Jennifer Tam serves as VP of Operations and chartered with the organization’s manufacturing, and delivery of Interface Masters products. Her experience with networking solutions and technology insights were derived from her work as an engineer at Interface Masters, helping focus and define success in her leadership over operations. With over 10 years working with Interface Masters, her interaction with suppliers, engineering and the manufacturing teams ensure product quality, build, testing and on time delivery. As an essential part of the leadership team, she works to ensure Interface Masters continues to be the premier supplier of US manufactured network equipment solutions.
Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from San Jose State University.
Brian Shannon
VP of Product
Brian Shannon leads Interface Masters’ new product development strategy and design. He is responsible for ensuring the success of all product families, custom deliverables and roadmap. With over 20 years of experience in software (consumer and commercial) and hardware (mobile phones, tablets, PCs and touchscreens) and networking solutions he successfully manages and acts as chief evangelist and leader in product management for custom OEM and off-the-shelf products at every level of the life-cycle at Interface Masters. His accomplishments are built on acute attention to detail and drive in ensuring that each product is reliable, tested and meets the most challenging networking requirements. Brian and his team take great pride in designing and building networking solutions right here in the USA.
Brian has held leadership roles with many innovative technology pioneers including Sentons, Synaptics and Fujitsu. Brian holds a Bachelor of Science degree from UC Davis.
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