Management Team

Raj Kanaya
CEO and Co-Founder
Raj Kanaya brings a long track record of general management and market development success to Infineta Systems. As CEO, Raj is responsible for the overall vision, direction, and revenue attainment for the company. Previously, Raj was VP of product strategy and alliances for the Application Networking Group at Citrix Systems. He joined Citrix though its acquisition of NetScaler where he served as VP of product management for a product line that went from sub-$2 million to $60+ million in revenues over three years. Raj was a GM of a BU at Lucent and led business development at Nexsi Systems. Earlier in his career, he was a Bain & Co. consultant where he advised large companies in technology and LBO funds on turnarounds, new market entries, and acquisitions/divestitures. Raj has an M.B.A. from Stanford University and earned his B.S. in computer science magna cum laude from UCSD.
K.V.S. Ramarao, Ph.D.
CTO and Co-Founder
As Chief Technology Officer, Ram is responsible for the company’s technical vision, research, and overall product architecture. He is a highly published innovator and entrepreneur with numerous patents, research papers, and industry standards credited to his name. Prior to Infineta, Dr. Ramarao served as Chief Platform Architect for the Application Oriented Networking BU at Cisco Systems. He brings three decades of experience in R&D and successfully bringing high performance systems to market. Previously, he was founder and CTO of both Conformative Systems (acquired by Intel) and Sariga Networks. Earlier in his career, Dr. Ramarao held senior technical positions at Agere and SBC Labs and was an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Oklahoma prior to that. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Canada, M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and M.Sc. from Andhra University, India.
Ainslie Mayberry
CFO
Ainslie Mayberry is responsible for Infineta’s finance organization. Ainslie has over 20 years of financial experience including merger and acquisition analysis, IPO strategy, fund raising and multinational operations. Prior to Infineta, Ainslie was a co-founder of AssureNet Pathways Inc., a network access security solution provider, based in Mountain View, California. While with AssureNet, she held many executive positions including CEO, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors. While in the IPO process, AssureNet was acquired by a publicly-traded information security company in 1997. Ainslie holds a B.S. and M.B.A. in Finance.
Haseeb S. Budhani
Vice President, Products
Haseeb Budhani is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Infineta Systems' product marketing, marketing communications, and partner management activities. Prior to Infineta, he served as Vice President for NET's Broadband Technology Group, spearheading the group's product marketing, program management and business development functions. Haseeb has previously held senior product management, marketing and engineering roles at Personal IT, Citrix Systems, Orbital Data, IP Infusion and Oblix. He has served in key advisory roles for startups such as Plair, Questarium, Gift Venture and Chegg. Haseeb holds an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
Amol Mahajani
Vice President, Engineering
Amol Mahajani is Vice President of Engineering at Infineta Systems and leads the company’s hardware and software engineering teams and product development efforts. Amol brings to Infineta over 20 years of managerial, engineering, and entrepreneurial experience in developing award-winning networking and security products for enterprise and service provider market segments. Immediately prior, Amol was Co-Founder and Vice President of Software Development and Technology of Nevis Networks, a leading provider of high performance LAN security appliances. Previously Amol was co-founder and Vice President of Technology at iManage which was acquired by Pipelinks/Cisco Systems. Amol held various senior engineering management positions at Cisco Systems and Novell. Amol has a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
Steven Velardi
Vice President, Sales
Steve Velardi is responsible for all of Infineta's go-to-market planning and activities, including direct and indirect sales and sales operations. He has a long track record of achievement in early stage startups and large, established companies. Prior to Infineta, Steve was Vice President of Sales at Powerfile, an innovator in hybrid storage appliances. He was also Vice President of Sales at Actona Technologies (acquired by Cisco) and held sales and management roles at industry leaders such as Cisco, Veritas, and EMC. He holds a B.S. from the University of Rhode Island.
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