Corporate - Management

Previously, Abhijit co-founded Scintera and was its CEO. Scintera is funded by August Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Sevin Rosen Funds, and Ridgewood Capital and is the leading provider of CMOS processors for enhancing wireless base station efficiency.

Abhijit was also involved in bringing together an international consortium of 60 companies in North America, Europe, and Asia, to support an IEEE standard for 10G networking. Before Scintera, Abhijit held senior management positions at National Semiconductor where he led the development and commercialization of three generations of Ethernet networking products. He was also involved in many mergers, acquisitions, and partnerships.

Abhijit has an MS in Management from the Stanford Business School, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has authored numerous publications and has over 50 US patents. Abhijit enjoys wind surfing and playing the guitar. He and his wife, Prajakta, have 2 young sons.

Prior to joining UnitedLayer, Buck founded ASPextra, a company focused on providing scalable and highly available managed hosting solutions. At ASPextra, Buck built a network and services delivery infrastructure comprising multiple, geographically dispersed data centers serving customers in the US, Europe and Asia.  ASPextra was acquired by UnitedLayer in 2006.

Prior to ASPextra, Buck was senior manager at Oracle, where his responsibilities included corporate business development, technology acquisitions and strategic alliances. While serving at Oracle, Buck was deeply involved in the technical evaluation, acquisition and implementation of Internet and e-commerce technologies that shaped much of how the Internet evolved in its early years.

Buck is a regular contributor to a number of open source projects.  He received his B.A. from Pomona College.

Prior to joining UnitedLayer, Mukund was the Founder and CTO at RackWare Inc. a company focused on software for stateless compute. Before RackWare, Mukund was the VP of Technology at Emulex Corp. At Emulex, Mukund was responsible for architecting and delivering Emulex’s industry leading 16Gbps FC and 40Gbps Ethernet and CNA solutions. He was also involved in due diligence of partnerships and acquisitions.

Mukund joined Emulex when it acquired Aarohi Communications – a venture funded company he co-founded. Prior to Aarohi, Mukund was the Founder and VP of Engineering at Hyperion Technologies, a design-consulting services company. Earlier in his career, Mukund led and designed Forward Error Correction ASICs at LSI Logic and designed CPU’s at Intel.

Mukund has a BS in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and has taken graduate engineering courses at Stanford University. Mukund is a co-author of 2 patents. During his spare time, Mukund likes playing soccer with his son and bicycling with his daughter.

Aaron also works with the design team at Lockheed Martin Transformational Satellite (TSAT) Communications ground-based Mission Operations System (TMOS) program (a $2.02 billion cost-plus award fee contract).

Prior to joining UnitedLayer, Aaron was VP of Technology at Terremark World Wide, Inc., a leading operator of integrated Tier-1 Network Access Points (NAPs) and best-in-class network services. Prior to joining Terremark, Aaron led operations, sales engineering and planning and design as VP of Operations at YellowBrix - a content distribution company based on proprietary technology which uses Artificial Intelligence, linguistic pattern analysis, and entity identification to contextually analyze information and deliver it to clients.

Aaron has also held network and system architecture roles at Certainty Solutions, Quest Technologies, RCN, UltraNet and Channel(1) Communications.

Dell oversees regular preventative maintenance of all electrical and mechanical systems to ensure customer uptime and is also responsible for driving UnitedLayer's green datacenter initiatives.

Dell is trained in shipboard operations and engineering. He attained leadership rank, rising from leading seaman and midshipman to chief helmsman and navigations officer, for a private oceanic research firm as a young 21-year old. Dell has done coursework in oceanography and limnology at University of Washington, Seattle, which has added to his scientific and engineering background.

Dell is an avid golfer and sometimes musician with recording credits. Raised in San Francisco, he currently lives in nearby Sonoma County with his uber-tolerent wife of 31 years, Karen, and they have proudly produced two kids, now aged 20 & 23 years and going to nearby colleges.

Prior to joining United Layer, Alan managed the finance and information technology organizations at Alta Devices, a solar technology company. He was responsible for running the finance and accounting operations and ensuring the seamless operation of IT services for the company. Alan has also held finance positions with Leadis Technologies, Spansion and AMD.

Previously, he was a co-founder of Practice Fusion, the fastest growing electronic medical records company in the country. Alan was responsible for the growth of the company, including the development of its business model, business development and strategic partnerships.

Alan holds a master's degree in business administration and an undergraduate degree in accounting. Outside of work, you will find Alan spending time with his wife, Kelli, playing with his two young daughters and throwing the ball for his Boston Terrier.