User:Jim Forster

Jim Forster is passionate about extending the Internet. He started at Cisco in 1988 when it was quite small and spent 20 years there, mostly in IOS Software Development and System Architecture, and becoming a Distinguished Engineer. While at Cisco he started working on projects and policies to improve Internet access in developing countries. Now he engaged in both for-profit and non-profit efforts to extend communications in Africa and India. He is on several Board of Directors, and an Angel investor in US and international projects, including Range Netoworks / OpenBTS and MedCommons in the US, Esoko Networks in Ghana, and AirJaldi in India.