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Founder / Chairman
Kumar Malavalli co-founded Brocade Communication Systems, the leader in storage area switching. He is widely regarded to be the visionary behind Fibre Channel storage fabrics, a technology that enabled the development of production-class storage area networks (SANs) and a multi-billion dollar market segment. As the Founder of KawaObjects Inc., Kumar brings his technology vision and expertise in storage and telecommunications to enable our next generation distributed managed object software platform and cloud computing infrastructure.
Founder / CEO & CTO
Dr. Rao has over 30+ years of experience in both Telecommunications and IT industries. He has held research and senior management positions at AT&T Bell Labs, Bellcore, US West, Network Programs Inc, SS8 Networks, and LightSand Communications. Most recently, he held the position of Director, storage systems and services engineering at Comstock Systems, which was later merged with Hitachi Data Systems Inc., in USA.
His practical experience in applying leading-edge technologies to radically improve productivity and quality of Operations and Management in telephony, IP networking and storage networking provides a unique perspective on the role of enterprise systems and technologies. He has written many papers on application of AI and Expert Systems in network operations & management, object oriented technology and software productivity, Video on Demand services management and new approaches to storage service delivery.
He just published a book on "Designing a New Class of Distributed Systems" - ISBN 978-1-4614-1923-5 published by Springer, New York, 2011.
Founder / CFO & COO
Dr. Comparini was a Venture Partner for Ridgewood Capital and served in positions of Vice President, General Manager and Business Unit Manager for Siemens North America. He serves on boards of director and advisory boards, and has held interim positions as CEO, CFO and COO, in other early stage, technology based companies.
Dr. Comparini earned his Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Physics from Yale University and his MBA in Finance and Marketing from the University of Hartford; he is an author of over 20 technical papers and two patents.