Executive Management
Shankar R. Mukherjee
President and CEO
Shankar has over 24 years experience in the networking industry. Most recently he held an executive position in the Ethernet Group of Agere/LSI. He was previously CEO of TeraBlaze which was acquired by Agere Systems. Prior to that he was VP of the Ethernet Group at Enable Semiconductor which was acquired by Lucent.
Peter Hertan
VP of Sales and Marketing
Peter's experience has been in early phase startups for the past 30 years. Among the most significant was NetScaler (acquired by Citrix) where he held several senior management positions in System Engineering and Sales. Most recently, he was VP of Marketing and Strategic Sales at NeoAccel (acquired by VMWare).
Kamal Avlani
VP of Engineering
Kamal Avlani brings over 20 years of engineering and executive management experience, developing first to market products serving wireless, networking, server and storage markets. Kamal previously held engineering and executive roles at Tellabs, Kuokoa Networks, Sun Microsystems and Cisco.
Board
Charlie Carinalli
Charlie has over 40 years experience in IT and the semiconductor industry. He was SVP/CTO of National Semiconductor. He currently sits on the boards of: Extreme Networks, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Atmel.
John Rockwell
John has 20 years of experience in venture capital investing in developing companies commercializing applications of advanced materials and over 25 years of financial investment experience. He has been a Director at companies such as: Accelergy, BioFuelBox, Cleantech Group, BMG Seltec, and FiveCubits.