Fred Sammartino is an American communications-industry engineer and executive, well known as the founding president and chairman of the board of the ATM Forum.Nov. 1992 Asynchronous Transfer Mode NewsletterJuly 1994 Telecom Standards Newsletter20 May 1996 Computerworld
In the 1980s, Sammartino worked for David Systems Inc. of Sunnyvale, California, where he was product-line manager for a product technology to deliver Ethernet over two twisted pairs, before the 10BASE-T Ethernet standard emerged.14 Dec. 1987 InfoWorld11 Jan. 1988 InfoWorld
Sammartino also worked at Apple Computer25 March 1991 Network World1991 IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks before joining Sun Microsystems24 Jan 1994 Computerworld and founding the ATM Forum. Educated at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Stanford University, as of 2013 he is director of product management at Azuki Systems in the Boston area.Fred Sammartino on LinkedIn
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