Dave Larson

Dave Larson is the CTO for Spirent Communications with responsibility for overall company technology vision and strategy. Dave leads the Spirent Advanced Technology team that incubates forward looking test, measurement and assurance solutions in the Cloud-Native realm for incorporation across all of Spirent’s product lines. Dave has more than 25 years’ experience across networking, network security and cloud architecture working in both emerging technology startups and large public enterprises.

Before joining Spirent, Dave was Vice President and General Manager for the Data Center Networking business and Chief Technologist for Networking, Security and Advanced Cloud Technology and Strategy at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Previously, Dave was COO/CTO for Corero Network Security, a developer of carrier-grade, terabit-class DDoS mitigation solutions. Prior to that, Dave was VP of Advanced Technology and CTO for HP Networking.

Additionally, Dave has held senior product and technical roles in a number of organizations, including 3Com Corporation, TippingPoint, Xedia (acquired by Lucent), Sandburst (acquired by Broadcom), and Tizor Systems (acquired by Netezza/IBM).

Dave has a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Gordon College in Wenham, MA