StorSimple Management
Ursheet drives overall strategy and business execution for StorSimple. Prior to StorSimple, Ursheet was the Director of product management for Cisco’s WAN optimization and application acceleration business unit – an advanced technology unit within Cisco that produced the award-winning Wide Area Application Service (WAAS) product. Ursheet drove the cross functional execution for WAAS from concept to product delivery and revenue. During his tenure, the business grew from tens of millions to several hundreds of millions in annual revenue with thousands of customers spanning every industry and vertical. Within 4 years, Cisco WAAS obtained industry leadership with #1 market share and the Best of Interop award for 2008.
Ursheet came into Cisco through the acquisition of Andiamo Systems, a Storage Area Network (SAN) switching and SAN-based storage services company, where he held a product management role. Prior to that, Ursheet held leadership positions at Kuokoa Networks, a file system virtualization company and at Jalva Media Inc, a digital asset management software and outsourcing company.
Ursheet started his career in enterprise IT at Deloitte Consulting where he worked as analyst, technical architect and project leader for a range of data-center, networking and applications IT infrastructure projects across multiple industries.
Ursheet holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science & engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay (Mumbai), India and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Guru drives operations and product development for StorSimple. He is a 20+ year storage industry veteran, and a pioneer in the early development of Fibre Channel and SCSI technology. His technical expertise includes Fibre Channel and SCSI protocols, RAID storage subsystems, high availability and clustering technologies.
Prior to StorSimple, Guru was one of the top executives at Brocade. Prior to StorSimple, Guru was the VP/GM for the Brocade/Foundry Application Delivery Controller and the Files Business, where he was responsible for overall product strategy and delivery. His other roles included VP Engineering, Software where he led Brocade’s software engineering team to deliver the core products that enabled Brocade to achieve market leadership in Storage Area Network (SAN) switching.
Guru came into Brocade in 2002 through the acquisition of Rhapsody Networks. Guru was the founder and VP of Engineering at Rhapsody Networks, where he was responsible for defining the company's product direction, directing product development and leading the engineering organization. Under his leadership, Rhapsody developed industry-leading modular and fixed-configuration block virtualization switching products.
Prior to Rhapsody Networks, Pangal founded Rhapsody Systems Inc. a technology consultancy firm focused on high-speed interconnects for the storage industry and precursor to Rhapsody Networks. He was also the co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Starcom Technologies. Pangal began his engineering career at Hewlett-Packard.
Pangal holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Utah State University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, India, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from JNT University, India.
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