Management Team

UTStarcom's executive team features broad and deep management and technology innovation expertise coupled with a unique global perspective. Our management team has spearheaded the development of a wide variety of products and patents, using expertise in network architecture, software, high-speed voice and data services, handsets, and telephone systems. We're proud of these accomplishments that span the world of telecommunications applications, customers, and markets.

Chief Executive Officer and President

Peter Blackmore has served as UTStarcom's Chief Executive Officer, President and a Director since July 2008 and prior to that he served as the President and Chief Operating Officer from July 2007 to July 2008. From 2005 until 2007, Mr. Blackmore served as Executive Vice President in charge of world-wide sales, marketing and technology at Unisys Corporation. Prior to joining Unisys in 2005, he served as Executive Vice President of the Customer Solutions Group at Hewlett-Packard Company from 2004 and as Executive Vice President of the Enterprise Systems Group from 2002 through 2004. From 1991 until its acquisition by Hewlett-Packard in 2002, Mr. Blackmore served in a number of senior management positions with Compaq Computer Corporation, most recently as its Executive Vice President of worldwide sales and services from 2000 through 2002. Mr. Blackmore also serves on the board of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc. Mr. Blackmore holds an M.A. in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K. and completed the Advanced Management Program at INSEAD.

Senior Vice President, International Sales, Marketing and Services

Mr. Dominguez joined UTStarcom in November 2008 as Senior Vice President of International Sales, Marketing and Services. In this role, Mr. Dominguez oversees all aspects of global sales, marketing and services outside of China. Mr. Dominguez’s thirty-year career spans multiple global leadership, business development and sales roles at Unisys Corporation. Most recently, he served as Vice President and General Manager, Worldwide Regional Sales Operations, and President of the Americas for Unisys. He was also a member of the corporate Executive Committee and the corporate Change Management Office. Previously, Mr. Dominguez held numerous sales and business development positions in the public sector, commercial, communications and financial services domains.  He also held general manager positions for key regions including South Asia, the Americas, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. Mr. Dominguez holds a B.S. in Business Management and a B.A. in Economics from Kean Business College.

Senior Vice President, China Sales, Marketing and Services

Mr. Mah joined UTStarcom in November 2008 as Senior Vice President, China Sales, Marketing and Services and is based in Hangzhou, China.  In this role, Mr. Mah oversees all sales activities for network infrastructure, system support, terminals and handsets.  Prior to joining UTStarcom, Mr. Mah was the Vice President of Sales at Nokia Networks and Nokia-Siemens Networks, managing overall sales operations for China Unicom and China Mobile North Region.  Additionally, Mr. Mah has held various leadership positions at Macromedia (acquired by Adobe in 2005), Openwave Greater China, Cisco, Nortel Networks, and Bell Northern Research (U.S.).  Mr. Mah holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.

Senior Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources and Real Estate

Mr. Green joined UTStarcom as Vice President of Human Resources in January 2006. He is responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of UTStarcom's worldwide Human Resources strategy, as well as real estate and facilities management. He brings to the position broad HR experience in high-tech gained in North America, Asia and Europe. Most recently, Mr. Green led HR for VeriSign's Internet Security Services Business. Prior to that, he spent 14 years in the telecommunications and data networking industry at Nortel, where he held a variety of HR leadership positions in the UK, Hong Kong and Silicon Valley. Mr. Green received his BEE from Leeds University, and M.S. in Human Resource Management from the London School of Economics.

Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President and Business Transformation Officer

Mr. Bose joined UTStarcom in April 2006 as Chief Information Officer. Prior to this, Mr. Bose was Vice President and Chief Information Officer with 3Com with global responsibility for the company's IT organization. During his tenure, Information Week selected 3Com as having the top High Technology IT organization for 2005. Previously, Mr. Bose was Director of Strategy, Architecture, and Advanced Development at Nortel Networks and Director of Information Systems at Claris. He also held management and technical positions at Quantum, Pacific Telesis Group, Systems Consultants Pte, Ltd. of Singapore, and Engineers India Limited. He received a B.S. from Delhi University in India and holds an M.S. in Software Engineering from National University, San Diego.

Vice President, (Interim CFO) Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer

Mr. Patel has served as UTStarcom's Interim Chief Financial Officer since September 1, 2008 and as Vice President, Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer since November 2005. Prior to joining UTStarcom, Mr. Patel was Vice President of Finance for Celera Group from July 2005 to October 2005. Mr. Patel also served as Vice President of Finance for Nektar Therapeutics from March 2004 until June 2005. From November 2003 to March 2004, Mr. Patel served as an Interim Corporate Controller for Extreme Networks. From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Patel was the Chief Financial Officer of Avanti Corporation. Prior to joining Avanti Corporation Mr. Patel worked for Pall Corporation from 1989 through 1999 where he served as the Chief Accounting Officer. Mr. Patel began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1982. Mr. Patel holds a B.B.A. from Pace University, New York. He is a Certified Public Accountant from the State of New York and is a member of the New York State Society of CPAs and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer

Ms. Marsch joined UTStarcom in April 2007 and serves as the company's Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Ethics Officer, is responsible for worldwide legal affairs as well as advising the company's management and board of directors on strategic and corporate governance matters. Susan also serves as UTStarcom’s first Chief Ethics Officer to provide focused leadership in the area of corporate ethics and integrity.

Prior to joining UTStarcom, Ms. Marsch served as General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Vice President at several California-based technology companies including Firefly Mobile, Redback Networks, AltaVista Company and Beatnik, Inc. During her tenure at AltaVista, Ms. Marsch played an integral role in the acquisition of the company by Overture Services, Inc. in April 2003. Before moving to Northern California, Ms. Marsch was Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Trust Company of the West, a privately held investment management firm based in Los Angeles. Before joining Trust Company of the West, Ms. Marsch was a Corporate Attorney at Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles, where her practice focused on securities offerings and merger and acquisition transactions. A certified public accountant, Ms. Marsch is a graduate of both the University of Michigan Law and Business Schools and is a member of the State Bar of California.

Senior Vice President and General Manager, Broadband Business Unit (BBU)

Ms. Sheng joined UTStarcom in April 2003 and has held a series of Director and Vice President positions in global engineering, network management and R&D.  Currently, she is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of UTStarcom’s Broadband Business Unit (BBU), which includes UTStarcom’s MSAN, GEPON, MSTP and PTN businesses.  In this role, Ms. Sheng is responsible for overall business unit leadership and management, including technology R&D and product portfolio management. Previously, Ms. Sheng held technical and senior management roles in engineering design and management at Nortel Networks, Hitachi Telecom and several telecommunications startups in the United States and Canada, including Silicon Valley-based Xros, Inc., an optical switching company acquired by Nortel Networks. Ms. Sheng holds a B.Eng. in Electronics Engineering from Southeast University, China; a M.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from Institute of Plasma Physics, Academia Sinica, China and a M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Calgary, Canada.

Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Multimedia Communication Business Unit (MCBU)

Dr. Zhao joined UTStarcom in early 2001. In January 2006, he was named General Manager and Vice President of the Multimedia Communication Business Unit (MCBU), which includes UTStarcom's Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), Next Generation Network (NGN) and Personal Access System (PAS) infrastructure businesses. In this role, Dr. Zhao is responsible for overall business unit leadership and management, including technology R&D and product portfolio management. Previously, Dr. Zhao held technical and senior management positions in system engineering and product management at Nortel, Lucent and Motorola, with a consistent focus on system engineering, product management, and R&D engineering management. Dr. Zhao holds a B.S., M.E. in Computer Science and Ph.D. from Purdue University, holds several U.S. and China patents, and has contributed to numerous telecommunications industry standards bodies.

Vice President and Chief Quality Officer

Mr. Lim has 27 years of diversified operational, product engineering and quality management experience with Hewlett Packard, NovAtel and JDS and other start ups in semiconductor assembly and testing, wireless (handset, base station, wireless data and GPS) and optical industry in Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada, USA and Taiwan. Mr. Lim graduated with a degree in Electronic Engineering from The City University of London, UK in 1978.