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Vikram Mehta, president and CEO of BLADE Network Technologies, is the driving force behind the company’s growth and rapid global expansion, making BLADE one of the fastest growing companies in enterprise data center networking. Under his leadership, the company has attracted partners such as HP, IBM, Juniper Networks, NEC, Netezza and SGI, and closed a Series B financing for a valuation of $240M. Vikram brings over 23 years technology industry experience, and has been at the helm of the company since its inception. He brokered the spin out of Nortel’s Blade Server Switch Business Unit (BSSBU), establishing BLADE as an independent company in February 2006. Vikram came to Nortel in 2000 through its acquisition of Alteon Web Systems and there he laid the foundation for what became Nortel’s BSSBU. Prior to this, he spent 12 years at Hewlett-Packard in various management and executive positions in several countries across the Asia Pacific region and the US. His last position at HP was general manager Enterprise Servers, Americas Region, a $1B+ business. In 2009, Vikram won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® award in the “Emerging” category for Northern California, and was subsequently honored as a National Finalist Winner and inducted into the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Hall of Fame. Vikram has been a frequent speaker at industry events and is often quoted by media and analysts. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology.

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