Rehan Jalil, CEO & President, Elastica
Mr. Rehan Jalil serves as the President of Shary, Inc. Mr.
Jalil serves as Venture Advisor at Mayfield Fund. Mr. Jalil served as President
of Wichorus, Inc. He served as Senior Vice President of Mobile Internet Technologies
at Tellabs Inc. where he was responsible for mobile Internet products and
business at Tellabs. He joined Tellabs through its acquisition of WiChorus
Inc., in December 2009, where he was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer.
He served as Senior Vice President of Wichorus, Inc. Mr. Jalil
served as Chief Executive Officer of Wichorus Inc. Mr. Jalil served as Chief
Architect of Aperto Networks and played diverse leadership roles in technology
and sales. He has over 15 years of technical management & sales experiencen
in telecommunications, networking and multi-core processors. He developed
multiple generations of broadband wireless silicon, carrier-grade base stations
and terminals, as well as brought multi-million dollar orders. At Sun Microsystems,
he helped develop one of the industry's earliest advanced multi-core
multithreaded processor for throughput computing and graphics applications. At
Siemens, he managed projects related to system level design and implementation.
He also contributes to social entrepreneurship projects and is a charter member
of OPEN Silicon Valley. He has over 25 patents pending. Mr. Jalil serves as a
Director of Shary, Inc. He served as a Director of Wichorus Inc. He was a
founding member of WiMAX Forum. He holds a Bachelor of electrical engineering
from NED University. Mr. Jalil graduated with MSEE from Purdue University.
for more info logon to: www.elastica.net
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Awais Nemat, CEO Plumgrid
A group of former Cisco engineers who worked on some of the network
giant's most important technology just came out of stealth with a
product that could unseat their former employer.
The company is called PlumGrid. It's part of a brand new market called software-defined networking (SDN) that will completely change how companies build networks.
With
SDN, instead of buying expensive network hardware with a lot of fancy
features from companies like Cisco, enterprises will buy cheaper
hardware and less of it, with all those features handled in the SDN
software. SDN networks are easier to setup and modify than traditional
networks, proponents say, and work well with cloud computing
technologies.
There's a whole bunch of SDN players, but PlumGrid is worth watching for three reasons:
- The Cisco pedigree of its founders.
- It is challenging the SDN market leader, VMware's Nicira, with alternative technology.
- It has already signed on a bunch of big-name partners.
PlumGrid's
cofounders have worked on some of Cisco's most important networking
products. For instance, CEO Awais Nemat worked on Cisco's flagship
Catalyst 6500 and Nexus 7000 switches. CTO Pere Monclus, a Cisco
Distinguished Engineer, worked on handfuls of Cisco's top products and
even created an early prototype of an SDN product for Cisco.
PlumGrid's
claim to fame is that it doesn't use the same open-source software
called OpenFlow invented by the SDN leader, VMware's Nicira. In fact its
founders have some sharp things to say about OpenFlow calling it "a
demonstration of a concept. It's a demo, not a production-class system,"
Nemat told Business Insider.
Awais founded PLUMgrid in 2011, following senior technical and management roles at leading global companies in the networking industry. As Vice President of Marvell Semiconductor’s Enterprise Business Unit, he led the growth of the company’s $270 million Switching Solutions Business. Awais came to Marvell when D5 Networks, the company he founded and led as president and CEO, was acquired by Marvell. With D5 Networks’ pioneering LinkCrypt technology, Marvell gained technology leadership in Ethernet security. Prior to founding D5 Networks, Awais held senior technical positions at Cisco Systems and Mentor Graphics, a pioneer in electronic design automation. At Cisco, he was instrumental in driving the Switching and Security initiatives that later evolved into Cisco Trusted Security (CTS) and the Nexus 7000 platform. As part of the Cat6K system architecture team, he led the design of many generations of switching ASICs for the multi-billion dollar Catalyst 6500 and Nexus 7000 product lines. Awais holds multiple patents in scheduling, security, lookup, switching and processors.
for more info log on to www.plumgrid.com
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