Pankaj Parekh   Founder, CTO of iPolicy Networks

Pankaj Parekh led the core product development team during the initial stages of the company as VP of Engineering.  Prior to iPolicy Networks he was president, CEO, and founder of Tunnelnet, a company that designed networking products integrating load balancing with application-layer QoS.  He founded Tunnelnet after many years in senior engineering management positions with Intel.  At Intel, Pankaj managed the complete system development and compatibility validation of Pentium II desktop and server products.  He was in charge of the engineering teams at four Intel global R&D locations that delivered the first PII systems.  He also led the team that developed the system and silicon validation servers for Itanium processors, allowing Intel to deliver working processors in the first trial.  Pankaj was instrumental in the design of i960 Microprocessor architecture for which he developed the real time operation system.  Prior to Intel, Pankaj co-founded Penguin Research Inc., a pioneer in on-demand CD-quality music systems.  Pankaj received a bachelor of engineering degree in Electronics & Communication from Gujarat University, India, and a master of science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Arizona State University.  He has authored or co-authored a total of 12 patents in the fields of networking and security.