William N. Carrico Jr.


William "Bill" N. Carrico Jr. is a computer scientist and has founded several technology companies in the Silicon Valley area. He has been president and CEO of 3Com Corporation, senior vice president of Cisco Systems, and chairman of Packet Design LLC.

Education and personal life

Carrico graduated from Santa Clara University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.

Career

Carrico worked for Fairchild Semiconductor and Zilog. He and Judith Estrin co-founded Bridge Communications in 1981, which merged with 3Com in 1987. The couple joined Network Computing Devices in 1988. Carrico and Estrin also co-founded Precept Software in 1995 and Packet Design LLC in 2000.