Board of Directors

Shaji John, Chairman

Shaji John is the Chairman of the Board of IBRIX and Managing General Partner of JT Venture Partners, the company's seed investor. Mr. John previously served as the company's CEO where he developed the vision for the product, formulated the company's strategy and oversaw its successful growth to become the leading provider of scalable file serving solutions. Mr. John has over twenty years of experience in founding and leading technology companies and previously held both general management and technical management roles at General Electric Consulting and General Motors. He also worked as a technology investment analyst at MFS Investment Management and was named "Best of the Buy Side" by Institutional Investor magazine before returning to industry. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, an M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

The thing we find most attractive is that IBRIX is a software solution. With traditional NAS, you have to buy a big box. If you’re only interested in adding memory, you’re paying for other stuff you don’t need. With IBRIX, we can scale everything independently, whether we want more CPUs, memory, networks, or spindles.
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G. (Ari) Arjavalingam

Ari Arjavalingam is currently President and Managing Principal of Unaiva Management LLC, a personal investment company. In 2002-2003, Dr. Arjavalingam was involved with a development-stage file storage company, Kuokoa Networks, and its restart, Keeri Networks. Between 1997 and 2002, he was with the Galleon Group, a New York-based hedge fund group, where he was one of the founding partners and had a variety of responsibilities, primarily as an analyst and co-portfolio manager. Prior to that, he was an equities analyst following the communications technology industry at Needham and Company, a New York-based investment bank. Dr. Arjavalingam began his professional career at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center in New York as a Research Staff Member and Manager of the Package Design, Analysis and Measurements Group. Dr. Arjavalingam obtained an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in Electrical Engineering, and a B.A. from Cambridge University, also in Electrical Engineering.

Stephen D. Barrett

Stephen Barrett is a Managing Director of Barrett Associates LLC, a private investment company. Earlier he was Chairman and CEO of H.C. Wainwright and Company, Inc., and was a partner of Alex Brown & Sons, as well as a Vice President of Merrill Lynch and Co. Mr. Barrett serves on the Board of the Boston Stock Exchange, Wainwright Investment Counsel, and is a member of The Corporate Directors Club and Board Leaders. He received his B.A. in Economics from the College of William and Mary.

Dave Hurley

Dave Hurley has 25 years of experience in the storage industry and has held senior positions in Sales Management, Sales, and Engineering at NetApp, Auspex, and Digital Equipment. Dave is currently President of Stage Two Associates, LLC, a consulting company specializing in assisting early-stage storage technology companies. Dave has been involved with IBRIX as an Advisory Board Member since 2004. He has a B.A. in International Relations from Colgate University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Westfield State College.

Steven Orszag

Steve Orszag is the Founder of IBRIX and Chair of IBRIX's Technical Advisory Board. Mr. Orszag is the P. F. Smith Professor of Mathematics at Yale University and was formerly the F. E. Hamrick Chair of Engineering at Princeton University from 1984-98 and Professor of Applied Mathematics at MIT from 1967-84. Mr. Orszag has been the founder of several public companies including FLOW and was the Founding Chair of one of the NSF's five original supercomputer centers in 1985. He has written over 400 archival papers, numerous reports, and a dozen books in scientific computing, computer science, fluid dynamics, numerical analysis, nanoscale manufacturing, materials processing, turbulence, and other fields. He is also the co-author, with Carl Bender, of the classic applied mathematics text, "Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers." Mr. Orszag is also actively involved with start-up companies in the areas of computational fluid dynamics, electronic chip manufacturing, and network security/performance.

Milan Shetti

Milan Shetti serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of IBRIX, presiding on all day-to-day operations of the company. Milan has been with the company since 2006 and prior to his current appointment, Milan served as the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, responsible for product marketing, product management, technical marketing, and the tactical and strategic execution of all marketing and business development activities at IBRIX. Previously in his seven year tenure at Sun Microsystems, he held several technical and business leadership roles in the Network Storage group. As the Technical Director, Milan also ran the technology office for the Network Storage division in the Data Management Group at Sun Microsystems. Milan has an extensive technical background in NAS, parallel file serving and the storage space, and has contributed to storage industry standards efforts. He holds an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University.

Thomas Thekkethala

Thomas Thekkethala is a founding Board Director of IBRIX and Managing General Partner of JT Ventures. Mr. Thekkethala has served the company since inception in corporate development, sales, marketing, business development and strategy and has 25 years of diversified experience in founding and leading technology start-ups. He founded and /or served as CEO of SRG and CCSS, telecommunications software companies, and Fidelia, a network management software company, all three of which were successfully acquired between 1994 and 2006. Mr. Thekkethala currently serves as Chairman and CEO of RateIntegration, a start-up telecommunications revenue management software company. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Information Management from Washington University, St. Louis, where he also served on the School of Engineering faculty for over five years.