Joel Young is Senior Vice President – Research and Development, Chief Technical Officer of Digi International Inc. He joined the company in 2000 as Vice President of Engineering and was named Vice President of Research and Development and Chief Technical Officer in 2005.Prior to joining the company, Mr. Young served as a Vice President for Transcrypt International, a provider of encryption products, from 1996 to 2000. Before that, he held various engineering and management positions at AT&T and AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1986 to 1996.