Kamal Anand,Vice President of Marketing and Business Development,f Meru Networks

With a background that includes executive positions at three network infrastructure startups, Kamal Anand has successfully led the revenue-generating efforts of developing companies. His global management roles have required work across the USA, Asia and Europe. Most recently, Mr. Anand was VP of Asia Pacific Sales and Global Business Development with Atoga Systems which developed systems for carrier customers. At Atoga, he developed developed customers and channels in Asia and built an OEM relationship with ARRIS (Nasdaq: ARRS, leading to the acquisition of Atoga by Arris.Previously, Mr. Anand was VP of Marketing and Business Development and a member of the founding team at NetContinuum, Inc., an emerging provider of security products for Enterprises. At NetContinuum, he helped define the company's first generation of products, recruit the customer advisory board, and raise more than $35 million in financing in two venture rounds. Prior to NetContinuum, he served as the VP of Worldwide Field Marketing at Marconi Communications/FORE Systems. He joined FORE through the acquisition of Berkeley Networks, where he was responsible for strategic marketing, financing activities and establishing the partnerships in Asia and in the US that led to Berkeley Networks' first sales. Before Berkeley Networks, Mr. Anand was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. and held technical and managerial positions at Sun Microsystems.

Mr. Anand holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an MS in Computer Science from USC, and dual bachelor degrees in mechanical engineering and computer science from BITS (Pilani, India).