Shekar G Nair

Shekar is Chief Executive Officer of Elina Networks. Shekar brings over 20 years of experience in the IT industry.

Most recently, Shekar was part of the Asia-Pacific Sales leadership team at NetApp and  was  responsible  for  its OEM business.  Prior to this Shekar was the General

Manager of NetApp India Operations. Shekar co-founded Allegro Networks in California,  USA and was responsible   for  product operations.  Shekar was part of the inception team at Xylan and was instrumental in its successful IPO in 1996. Shekar started and ran Xylan's operation in India and later worked at Alcatel as Managing Director of the India operations through its acquisition of Xylan.Previously, Shekar held various individual, team lead and management roles in software development. Shekar has also been an Enterpeneur in  Residence  at Thomas  Weisel  Venture   partners.  Shekar  has  2   USA

patents in data  communications  and  networking and  holds a bachelor of science degree in Computer Engineering from NIT Trichy, India and masters in Computer Science from California State University Northridge, USA.

Dr. Swami Manohar

Swami Manohar is a co- founder and the CEO of PicoPeta Simputers Pvt. Ltd. After obtaining his  PhD  in Computer Science from  Brown University he was a faculty at

the University of North Carolina for two years and then was at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, between 1990 to 2005. He was on the faculty of the department of Computer Science and the Super Computer Education and research Center at the Institute. He has been a visiting faculty at Columbia University, University of Missouri and the University of Texas. While at IISc, he co-invented the Simputer, was awarded the Dewang Mehta Award for Innovation in IT, and pioneered the faculty entrepreneurship activity at IISc, which has since   catalyzed   similar   activity   in   IITs and   other educational  institutes  in   India.  He  co - founded   Strand

Lifesciences (formerly  Strand  Genomics),  and String Labs, the first academic incubating company in India.

P Sunil Krishnan

Sunil Krishnan is the President and CEO of Confident Group, one of the fastest growing conglomerates with business inetrest across diversified verticals. Prior to Confident, he was Director (Finance), South East Asia for Hewlett Packard. In 16 years of his career at HP, he has held various positions in manufacturing, supply chain services, operations and finance gaining insight into various facets of corporate management. He started his career with Mico Bosch.

Sunil holds Bachelors degree in Industrial Engineering..

Prakash Bare

Prakash Bare has held various engineering and business positions during his 15+ years in electronic design automation and design reuse industry.

Most recently Prakash has been with Rambus Inc. as the head of their india operations. Prior to joining Rambus, Prakash was vice president of the IP business unit at GDA Technologies, a leading EDS and SIP company. He worked at Cadence Design Systems and Cypress Semiconductor before co-founding GDA Technologies in 1996. Prakash holds a master's degree in microelectronics from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur.

Manish Gangey

Manish co-founded Elina Networks.

Most recently, Manish was a consultant to Reliance Infocomm evaluating last mile technologies for it's triple-play roll out plans. Prior to that, as the Group Director for access and edge optical networking products, he was a key member of Tejas Networks core team. Prior to Tejas, he held senior engineering management positionat Synopsys's Professional Service Group and led several chip design projects for its customers in Taiwan, France, Germany and US. He began his career at Bhabha Atomic Research Center.

Manish holds Bachelors degree in electronics and telecommunication and Master's degree in microelectronics from IIT Roorkee..

Vivek Shenoy

Vivek co-founded Elina Networks and is responsible for driving technology direction for Elina.

Vivek most recently consulted to Reliance Infocomm on network and devices architectures Before that, Vivek was the chief architect for Tejas Network's entire SONET/SDH line of products where he drove product specifications, architecture and implementation strategies. He designed complex SDH and ATM chip verification environment tools for Synopsys during his tenure at France and Bangalore. Vivek started his career at India's best telecom R&D facility, C-DoT and designed timing synchronization products for telecom networks.

Vivek holds Bachelors' degree in electronics and a Master's degree in opto-electronics from IIT Delhi.