Stephen A. McCalmont is Chairman and CEO of Avior Computing. Before Avior, Mr. McCalmont founded Altaworks and Net2Net (now merged with Visual Networks). Altaworks produced a system management application for IBM's WebSphere and BEA's WebLogic environments. Net2Net produced a network management system for Asynchronous Transfer Mode networks. Customers included AT&T, MCI, Sprint, HP, and Network General. With his previous two companies, he raised more than US $50 million in venture capital. Mr. McCalmont has been through multiple successful IPOs and numerous leading M&As. Prior to these ventures, Mr. McCalmont founded CrossComm's OEM group. During his tenure, key partnerships were formed with GDC, ODS, and Harris. Mr. McCalmont held various sales, marketing, and management positions at Workstation Solutions and International Telematics. He began his career in applied cryptography at Technical Communications Corporation. He can be reached at stevem (at) aviorcomputing (dot) com.