Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Rubin Gruber is a well-known successful entrepreneur, having founded many innovative companies in the telecommunications, data communications and digital networking areas over a span of forty years.

In 2007 he co-founded Verivue (acquired in 2012 by Akamai: AKAM), a company providing infrastructure products that support on-demand television and movies as well as content delivery networks.

Before Verivue, Gruber co-founded Sonus Networks (NASDAQ: SONS), the leading provider of infrastructure equipment supporting IP Voice telephone networks around the world.

Earlier, Gruber founded VideoServer, Inc (NASDAQ: VSVR), a leading provider of multimedia communications servers.

Before VideoServer, Gruber served as Senior Vice President BBN Communications Corporation, where he introduced a new generation of packet-switching equipment in support of mission critical applications.

Gruber also founded Davox (NASDAQ: DAVX, acquired Aspect and renamed Aspect), a leading supplier of outbound call-center systems.

In the mid 1970’s, he founded Cambridge Telecommunications (CTX), which was the first company to incorporate microprocessors in communications equipment and an early supplier of packet network access equipment. CTX was acquired by GTE.

Gruber served on the Boards of all the companies he founded, as well as a number of other private companies, including GreenVolts, a leading supplier of Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) Solar Systems, NetDevices (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent), Brix Networks (acquired by EXFO), 2Wire (acquired by AT&T, Telmex and Alcatel) and others.

Gruber was a member of the board of directors of the International Softswitch Consortium, the International Packet Communications Consortium, and he was one of the founding members of the International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium where he was awarded the Pioneer award. He was named to the Massachusetts Telecom Hall of Fame.

He holds a B.Sc. from McGill University and an MA in mathematics from Wayne State University.