Candidate for
Council Member; City of Palo Alto

Smokey Wallace has been working in Silicon Valley for 36 years and in the computer industry for 43 years.

Smokey is the founder of RealBeerUSA, an importer and wholesaler of authentic cask conditioned beers (i.e. "Real Beers") from the UK.

Before founding RealBeerUSA, Smokey was Vice President and founder of InvisibleIT, a provider of outsourced IT operations and procurement services . Prior to IIT Smokey was Sr. Vice President of Development at Ensenda, an "Immediate Delivery" company that enabled 60 minute delivery of most web purchases. Prior to Ensenda, Smokey was Sr. Vice President of Business Development at Certainty Solutions, Inc, a high-end network operations management and outsourcing company. At Certainty, Smokey was responsible for strategic business direction, partnerships and marketing.

Prior to Smokey's startup phase, he was vice president of corporate engineering at Adobe Systems, Inc. where he was responsible for advanced technology, core technology and international engineering. Smokey has also served as vice president and general manager of the Network Products Division of Oracle Corporation where he was responsible for the development and marketing of Oracle's network software products and services, as well as the management and operation of the Oracle Corporate Data Center and the Oracle Worldwide Multi-protocol Communications Network. Prior to Oracle, Smokey has held various management, research and development positions at the Digital Equipment Corporation, Xerox Corporation, Xerox PARC, SRI International, Bolt Beranek and Newman and the IBM Corporation.

Smokey holds a BA in Mathematics from California State University Northridge.