James Hamilton

Overview

James Hamilton has served as 3Com's President of the TippingPoint Division since November 2005. From January to November of 2005, Mr. Hamilton served as TippingPoint's Chief Operating Officer. At the time 3Com acquired TippingPoint in January 2005, Mr. Hamilton was President and COO of TippingPoint, a position he held from October 2003 to the date of acquisition. Prior to TippingPoint, Mr. Hamilton was President and Chief Executive Officer of Efficient Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of Siemens AG, from February 2002 to April 2003. From April 2001 to February 2002, Mr. Hamilton served in other senior roles at Efficient Networks. Prior to Efficient Networks' acquisition by Siemens in April 2001, he served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing as well as General Manager of the company's four products divisions from 1999 to 2001. Prior to Efficient Networks, Mr. Hamilton served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Service for Picazo Communications, Inc., an IP telephony company sold to Intel Corporation in late 1999. He has previous experience as Director of the Communications Products Group at Compaq Computer Corporation, Vice President of Sales at NetWorth, Inc., which was sold to Compaq in 1995, and managed the North American reseller channel at 3Com Corporation.