Rajesh Vashist, CEO
Mr. Vashist has extensive experience in leading rapidly growing, highly profitable, market-driven businesses in both the hardware and software sectors. He has developed businesses that generated high returns by building successful marketing and engineering teams, leveraging third-party relationships, and managing direct and indirect sales models. Prior to joining Ikanos, Vashist was general manager of the OEM Solutions Group at Adaptec, Inc., where, among other duties, he had profit-and-loss responsibility of about $400 million for the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) Group. During his years in marketing management positions at Vitelic Semiconductor, a venture capital-funded startup, Vashist helped establish the company as the leader in the market for caching products. He started his marketing career at Samsung Semiconductor. Vashist holds a B.S. degree in engineering from Regional Engineering College (REC) Rourkela in India and an M.B.A. from Marquette University in Wisconsin.

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