INTROSPECTIVE NETWORKS - Key Persons


Anthony Scott Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Founder, President, T - CEO, and Board Chairman
Anthony started life immersed in technology regularly visiting Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ. with his father, Bell Labs Fellow Dr. Larry F. Thompson. While playing with electron microscopes, fiber optics and other interesting things at Bell Labs, he also, while still a teen, experienced beta testing the first lines of Apple computers and accessing ARPANet in the early 80's. These early experiences piqued Anthony's curiosity around networking and computer science making him a true "outlier". He has combined those experiences with education (MS/CS from CU) and experience (25+ in software development, 20+ years in telecommunications and 15+ years in leadership) to cultivate multiple critical, seminal patents to form the basis of the company he founded - Introspective Networks. Prior to founding Introspective Networks, Anthony developed systems maintaining and controlling global networks for one of the world's largest telecommunications companies. He led teams developing next generation solutions and has experience managing multi-million dollar budgets. Among other technology, Anthony invented STOP, the core technology behind SmokeNet, Introspective Networks' flagship product. He has a number of patents on this and other Introspective Networks inventions.

Steven Cummings - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Vice President of Operations
Steven has spent a majority of his career building and managing networks and has earned degrees in Electronics and Information Technology. He served a successful term in the U.S. Air Force, where he held a Top Secret/SCI security clearance, working on critical Air Force networks supporting missions globally. After the USAF, Steven moved on to manage groups deploying large, wide area networks for some of the country's largest providers, later focusing on creating software minimizing the potential for human error on critical systems, where outages or errors can have devastating impacts on emergency services, financial markets, and corporate networks, as well as military and government communications. He has hands-on experience developing network automation capabilities. More than two decades of experience with both military and civilian networks and equipment, along with exposure to computers and programming at a young age have contributed to Steven's success. He has worked with Anthony developing software since 2008 and has worked since 2013 to help bring STOP technology to fruition. He has multiple patents on Introspective Networks inventions.