Carl S. Ledbetter founded SimpleRose, Inc. Presently, he is Chairman, Chief Executive & Technology Officer at this company.

He is also on the board of Cloudflare, Inc., Misapplied Sciences, Inc. and Conviva, Inc.

In the past Carl S. Ledbetter was Chief Executive Officer at ETA Systems, Inc., Director-Kingston laboratory at International Business Machines Corp., President-Consumer Products at AT&T, Inc., Managing Director at Pelion Venture Partners, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer for Hybrid Networks, Inc., President for Capita Corp., Senior VP-Engineering, Research & Development at Micro Focus Software, Inc., General Manager-Networking Business & Senior VP at Sun Microsystems, Inc., Executive Vice President of Control Data Corp., Professor at California State University-Bakersfield, Professor at Clark University, Dean & Professor at Sonoma State University and Professor at Wellesley College.

Dr. Ledbetter received an undergraduate degree from the University of Redlands, a graduate degree from Brandeis University and a doctorate from Clark University.