Tony Zuccarino

Bio

Over the past 15 years, Mr Zuccarino has focused on developing new data, video and voice communications products. Mr Zuccarino's most recent position before joining Benchmark as an EIR was senior vice president of marketing and sales at Universal Network Machines (UNM), an enterprise infrastructure semiconductor startup. Before joining UNM, Mr Zuccarino was senior director of marketing and sales at Broadcom's Home and Wireless Networking Business Unit. There, Mr Zuccarino developed the business plan for Broadcom's entry into the WiFi market and introduced Broadcom's first 802.11b and 802.11a chipsets to the OEM marketplace. In 1999, he joined Broadcom through the acquisition of home-networking innovator Epigram, where he had served as vice president of sales and marketing since 1997. Prior to Epigram, Mr Zuccarino served as vice president of marketing and general manager of the Internet video/voice over IP business unit for real-time Internet video innovator VDOnet. Prior to VDOnet, Mr Zuccarino ran market development for Rockwell Semiconductor Systems, where his group gained 70 percent of the data modem market share, resulting in a $1 billion run rate. He previously served in design engineering roles with both Sharp Electronics and Hughes Aircraft. Mr Zuccarino holds a BSEE from University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Southern California.