Management
Elie Antoun - President and CEO
Dr. Partha Bhattacharya - Co-Founder, CTO and VP of Engineering
Mahesh Kumar - Vice President of Marketing
Robert Yusin - Vice President of Worldwide Sales
William Delaney - CFO
Elie Antoun - President and CEO
Prior to AccelOps, Antoun was entrepreneur-in-residence at El Dorado Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Before El Dorado, he was CEO of Genesis Microchip, a publicly traded company with global operations, which he led until its successful acquisition by STMicroelectronics.
Before Genesis, he was president and chief executive officer of MediaQ, a venture-backed startup, where in three years he built a solid team, raised several rounds of venture financing, grew revenues robustly, and led the company's acquisition by NVIDIA. Prior to Media Q, he was executive vice president at LSI Logic Corporation, where he ran the company's $350 million consumer products division.
Antoun holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and both a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also serves on the boards of several venture-backed startups.
Dr. Partha Bhattacharya - Co-Founder, CTO and VP of Engineering
Partha Bhattacharya has over 18 years of experience in networking, security, database, system architecture, and software development. Prior to AccelOps, Partha founded Protego Networks, where as CTO he created the award-winning MARS security appliance product line. Following Protego's acquisition by Cisco Systems, he led the Cisco team that extended the product's capabilities to satisfy a global market.
Before Protego, Partha was architect and technical lead at Cisco in charge of implementing the company's security management infrastructure in the PIX, IOS, firewall, VPN, router, and IDS products. Before Cisco, Partha was a research scientist at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center where he directed numerous network QoS, security, system scheduling, and parallel query designs. While at IBM, he designed the company's implementation of the IETF Service Location Protocol and built the industry's first IR wireless LAN access point with token ring.
Partha holds 15 patents and is the recipient of two IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards and a fellowship from the University of Maryland Systems Research Center. He holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland.
Mahesh Kumar - Vice President of Marketing
A respected cloud product strategist, Mahesh has 20 years of marketing and engineering experience at both startups and established IT companies.
Prior to joining AccelOps, Mahesh served as director of marketing at HP, where he took their CMDB software business from inception to market leadership and also led the team that built HP's first SaaS-only product. Before HP, Mahesh held executive positions at Collation (Acquired by IBM) and Kontiki (Acquired by Verisign), where he drove product and go-to-market strategies. Earlier in his career at Loudcloud, one of the original cloud computing companies, he managed the team responsible for defining cloud services and was a key evangelist for their transition to a software business model. He has also managed engineering teams at Autodesk and Intergraph.
Mahesh holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a master's degree in engineering from Clemson University.
Robert Yusin - Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Robert Yusin brings more than 20 years of experience in applications, security, and storage addressing software and hardware markets globally.
Robert provides global leadership for all aspects of AccelOps sales including direct sales, inside sales, channel, OEM, and business development. He was formerly with Fox Technology where he grew revenues to the highest in the company's history. Before Fox Technology, Robert was the EVP of Operations at Log Logic, Inc. where his sales team delivered exponential sales growth within a three-year span.
His experience includes executive sales roles at Finjan Software, Network Associates, StorageTek, and Commerce One. Robert has also held various advisory board positions to leading technology start-ups. He holds a M.B.A. from Saint Mary's College Of California.
William Delaney - CFO
Delaney has over 25 years of experience in finance and operations and plays a key role in shaping AccelOps' overall business strategy, day-to-day operations, and fundraising.
Prior to AccelOps, he served as vice president of finance and CFO at Chelsio Communications, ConSentry Networks, and MediaQ, a venture-backed startup acquired by NVIDIA. Earlier in his career, Delaney held finance operations and controller positions at Stratacom, acquired by Cisco Systems, Chiron Corporation, and LSI Logic.
Delaney earned a bachelor of science in accounting and finance from the University of Limerick, Ireland.