John Webley

CEO, PAX Streamline and Chairman of the Board, Turin Networks

John Webley founded and held various executive positions at Advanced Fibre Communications, including VP Marketing, VP R&D, and CTO. With his two co-founders, they grew Advanced Fibre to 300 people and a market cap of $6B when John left to found Turin Networks, an optical networking company. Six years later, when he retired as CEO, Turin was a $50M business with 250+ employees. John continues as chairman of Turin’s board through their anticipated IPO later this year. Since retiring from Turin, he has been involved in an advisory capacity with numerous startups in various capacities, including Red Condor (email anti-spam), Clovis (middleware), Securetrack (shipping security), Totally Gerard (reality TV show), myJambi (online services brokerage), American Bio-diesel (community bio-diesel start-up) and Titan Technologies (water/air purification). John is currently CEO of PAX Streamline, Inc, an engineering firm focused on biomimetic solutions that provide greater energy efficiency. The company is developing high-efficiency HVAC, cooling, and refrigeration systems, and exploring other application areas, including wind turbines and aerospace.