Robert Mandeville, founder and president of Iometrix, the networking industry's preeminent testing authority, has dedicated his career to providing globally recognized and trusted certification tests to the fast growing networking industry. Iometrix is the official certification test laboratory of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), the MultiService Forum (MSF) and the Broadband Forum (BBF) and is actively engaged in the forthcoming IEEE ICAP 1588 Certification Program. Bob is also strongly committed to advancing industry standards for testing and has authored test specifications in several leading standards bodies including the IETF, IEEE, MEF, MSF, IP/MPLS Forum and BBF. Bob attended university in both North America and Europe and holds several post-graduate degrees in such diverse fields as formal logic and economics. He resides in San Francisco and is an avid cyclist.