Mat Mathews is Vice President of Product Management at Arbor Networks, responsible for driving the company product strategy and roadmap across all product lines. Mat has more than 15 years of experience creating and executing product strategies for networking and network security companies.

Prior to joining Arbor Networks, Mat was Vice President of Product Management at Crossbeam Systems where he was responsible for defining and launching all the company's products and helped drive Crossbeam into a market share leadership position for high-end security gateways. Before Crossbeam, Mat held several senior level Product Management positions at Convergent Networks, Xylan Communications and Bay Networks/Wellfleet Communications. Mat also co-founded and led the marketing efforts for a strategy consulting firm that helped legacy media and telecommunications companies build strategies to reinvent their businesses. Mat began his career as a software engineer for Wellfleet Communications, building high speed Frame Relay Switches for the carrier market.