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| Raj Sharma |
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Raj Sharma, President & CEO
Raj Sharma, a proven visionary and an experienced manager, is the founder of the company and has been the driving force for the last four years. Raj has a proven ability to foresee a business problem, conceive a solution and deliver it to the market. In 1996, Raj and his team delivered the industry's first load-balancer, over $500MM market today. The secure server appliance is his new vision. In the last 20 years in this industry, Raj has brought together diverse groups of people, inspired them to achieve beyond their capabilities, lead companies from zero to multi-million dollars in revenue and has effectively managed multi-national operations.
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| Dr. John Ioannidis |
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Dr. John Ioannidis, Chief Architect
John Ioannidis, the Chief Architect of Packet GENERAL, has been on the cutting edge of technology for over two decades. In 1993, John saw a growing need for network security and co-invented swIPe, the predecessor to IPsec. Now IPsec is commonly used by vendors to provide commercial security solutions. John is considered an authority in many areas of security; he has over 50 publications and has given numerous invited talks. In his 20 years of professional career, John has worked for leading institutions such as Columbia University, Lehman Brothers and AT&T. A former Fulbright Scholar, he holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University.
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| Dr. Raj Nathan |
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Dr. Raj Nathan, Member Corporate Advisory Board
Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Sybase, Inc.
Dr. Nathan leads a global marketing organization executing on Sybase’s go-to-market strategy and initiatives. Prior to his current position, Dr. Nathan served as senior vice president of Sybase’s Information Technology Solutions Group. Dr. Nathan’s work experience has taken him around the globe, and has run the gamut from hardware to software, and from large companies to small including Unisys and Siemens Pyramid. Dr. Nathan was recently selected as a leader of the information technology industry by VARBusiness Magazine in its “Technology Innovators: Top 50,” for his decade-long commitment to Sybase technology innovation.
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Dr. Ike Nassi, Member Corporate Advisory Board
Senior Vice President for Research, Americas, SAP
Dr. Ike Nassi is the Senior Vice President for Research, Americas, for SAP where he and his group explore advanced new enterprise technologies and applications. Dr. Nassi has also held the position of the Senior Vice President at Apple Computer, where he led its AppleSoft Division until November 1996. He has also been a visiting scholar at the Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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| Dr. Leendert van Doorn |
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Dr. Leendert van Doorn, Member Technical Advisory Board
Senior Fellow, AMD
Dr. Leendert van Doorn is a Senior Fellow at AMD where he is leading the Software Technology Office, an organization that was recently created to drive focused software initiatives around: accelerated computing (manycore), managed code, virtualization, and security. Leendert is actively involved in AMD’s future processor designs and product planning councils. Before joining AMD, he was at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where he initiated and led IBM’s secure hypervisor (sHype) initiative and where he was responsible for the research contributions to IBM’s 4764 physically secure coprocessor that ships in most mainframes. Leendert holds a Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, he has authored over 40 papers.
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Dr. Fred Schneider
| Dr. Fred Schneider, Member Technical Advisory Board
Professor, Computer Science Department, Cornell University
Dr. Schneider’s research focuses on construction of concurrent and distributed systems for high-integrity and mission-critical settings. Fault-tolerance and security are critical in such settings. Dr. Schneider also serves as Chief Scientist for TRUST (NSF Science and Technology Center: Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies). Dr. Schneider is also Co-chair of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Academic Advisory Board.
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