Mike Golden has a long and distinguished career as an entrepreneur and inventor, conceiving and executing ideas proven to be both scalable and lucrative. In his early career as a Mattel inventor, he conceived of educational toys that have remained continuously on the market for more than 50 years, generating an estimated $3 billion in revenue. Golden holds 23 patents, many of which are for advanced network architectures that have been successfully deployed. Among his contributions as the founding CEO of multiple successful communications technology start-ups, was a global network management solution eventually sold to Enron for an 8X investor return. This technology was ultimately transferred to the public domain, and was adopted by Internet 2 as a model for providing end-to-end global QoS services and on-demand and reserved end-to-end fiber-optic bandwidth between communications companies. Mike Golden currently serves as Founder, CEO, CTO of Gigaband. He is regarded as an industry thought leader, and has frequently spoken at national events.