BALA GANESHAN, PH.D. EXPERIENCE. Vice President and CTO Stellus Technologies, San Jose, CA. Technical Leadership. Ecosystem Engineering and Evangelism

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1 BALA GANESHAN, PH.D. 423 THATCHER LANE FOSTER CITY, CA (650) A Chief Technology Officer and architect with 10+ years of executive level experience in information technology defining the growth strategy in cloud computing, software-defined datacenter and enterprise space. Widely recognized as a visionary and proven change agent. Passionate leader and motivator with extensive experience building, leading and managing international team of dynamic innovators. Proven track record for identifying, qualifying and implementing enabling technologies for enterprise systems. With a powerful blend of vision and business acumen, actively drove corporate technology strategy enabling QLogic to diversify from primarily an adapter company to offer solution centric products. Founding member and lead of the team that designed and developed the first Converged Infrastructure product Vblock now a $2+ billion business for EMC. Broad expertise in IT architectures, enterprise applications, fundamental research and development, high performance computing, technical sales enablement, and client/ vendor relationship management. Ably manage M&A, reorganization and process improvement initiatives. Won numerous honors and awards and patents. Further details at EXPERIENCE Vice President and CTO Stellus Technologies, San Jose, CA November 2015 Present Stellus Technologies, a Samsung affiliate, is focused on developing an open storage platform subsystem for consistent flash performance and volume-level QoS. I am part of the executive leadership team with a number of responsibilities within the organization Technical Leadership Ø Monitor and assess new technologies, and determine its relevance to existing business and corporate strategy. Ø Responsible for driving the future roadmap of company s products through technical and thought leadership. Ø Work closely with parent company s investment teams to ensure alignment with Stellus s overall business and technical strategy. Ø Ensure parent company s investment in future technologies are properly leveraged and integrated into Stellus product offerings and roadmaps. Ø Evangelize the technical, business and operational advantages of the company s product offering with potential customers, investors and financial analysts. Ecosystem Engineering and Evangelism Ø Promote the value of the Stellus platform to various hardware, software and technology partners Ø Lead a team of solutions engineers focusing on partner integration and solution creation in SDS and 3 rd platforms application space Ø Work closely with partners to develop mutually beneficial business models for Stellus and the partners Offshore Development Center Ø Establish and lead an offshore development center Ø Build a business case to justify offshore operations, and get approval from board of directors

2 Ø Negotiate with various vendors in India to build and operate an offshore development center Systems Operations and Go to Market Strategy Ø Guide business development personnel to build relationships with channel partners, system integrators and consulting companies specializing in 3 rd platform applications Ø Build a team to architect and develop system operations Lab Management and IT Ø Oversee management of engineering lab resources including infrastructure for hosting applications such as JIRA, GIT, and test beds for design, validation and testing, and QA Ø Architect, build and maintain a standalone partner lab that allows collaborative work with partners without exposing internal resources Ø Lead a team of personnel providing core IT services such as active directory, mail services and document repository Chief Technology Officer and Fellow April 2014 October 2015 QLogic Corporation, Aliso Viejo, CA Corporate Growth Strategy Ø Define a growth strategy for the company working with the CEO, senior executive staff and business owners. Ø Communicate QLogic s newly defined growth vision to key investors and the overall investment community, including presentations at QLogic Day at NASDAQ. Ø Devise strategic innovation programs to execute the growth strategy, while leveraging advantages of existing product portfolio. Ø Evaluate technologies of various companies, and identify synergies with existing products as a pathway for QLogic s growth through M&A activities. Ø Partner with the CFO to determine the financial impact and viability of various M&A targets. Ø Work closely with corporate marketing and media relations groups to ensure outward bound messaging is technically accurate and germane. Ø Provide leadership to influence QLogic s brand and technology adoption in various professional organizations and standards body. Ø Influence company culture to enable successful implementation of company s business and growth strategy. Technical Leadership Ø Monitor and assess new technologies, and determine its relevance to existing business and corporate strategy. Ø Designed an innovative Converged Infrastructure offering that provides the simplicity of hyperconvergence while retaining most of the advantages of integrated solutions. Ø Ensure the architecture of the Converged Infrastructure offering aligns with both technical and business vision driving the growth of the company. Ø Evangelize the technical, business and operational advantages of the new Converged Infrastructure product offering with potential customers, investors and financial analysts. Ø Support the Converged Infrastructure business s general manager in guiding business strategy to be aligned with the technical strategy.

3 Director, Open Innovation & Distinguished Engineer July 2011 April 2014 Chief Technology Officer, EMC Solutions Group October 2012 August 2013 Ø Lead the Open Innovation program that integrates external research with internal IP to create innovative solutions to address unmet customer needs. Specific examples include: o Tightly integrate & develop reference architectures for major Hadoop offerings with Isilon HDFS API. o Develop best practices to drive EMC s SDS offering, ScaleIO, into enterprise application space Ø Lead and manage a team to architect and implement a standards based IaaS platform for EMC solutions. o Developed the first Openstack plug-ins for EMC s major storage platforms, Symmetrix and VNX Ø Involved in definition of strategies to build cloud and service provider ready products. This involves architecting strategies in the areas of trusted multi-tenancy architectures, policy based management and orchestration. Ø Advise executive team on new developments in the area of SDDC. Ø Work with customers to understand their SDDC strategy. Determine the role of EMC software offering in the customer strategy. This include the preliminary work to virtualize major storage offerings. Ø Lead the architecture team that defines and looks for compliance to Solutions Architecture Standards. Ø Provide guidance to various entities within EMC solution group on cloud architectures to ensure solutions can be easily consumed by cloud and service providers. Ø Help evaluate new and upcoming technologies that are expected to provide EMC competitive advantage. Ø Design and architect innovative solutions to integrate partner offerings with EMC technology. Chief Technologist: VMware and Cisco Technologies June 2005 July 2011 Ø Perform seminal work that resulted in the first converged infrastructure offering, Vblock, from EMC and Cisco. Ø Led a highly dynamic team of in Santa Clara and Hopkinton focusing on various areas of integration between VMware, Cisco and EMC technologies. Ø Led a team of individuals in India responsible for scale testing various integrated solutions. Ø Mentor and train junior members of the team to accelerate their development. Ø Responsible for directing engineering activities integrating VMware and Cisco technologies with Symmetrix and VPLEX product line. Ø Integral part of the Symmetrix and VPLEX architecture team that set the strategic direction for the products. Ø Guide core development teams in Symmetrix and VPLEX engineering to optimize the functions and features of the products when used with VMware and Cisco technology offerings. Ø Evangelize the integration of the features of Symmetrix and VPLEX products with VMware and Cisco products. Ø Architect, setup, tune and test integrated partner and EMC product offerings that showcase the best of the breed platforms for running enterprise-class applications and solutions. Ø Develop collateral such as EMC TechBooks, White Papers and Presentations highlighting the benefits of using Symmetrix and VPLEX technologies with VMware and Cisco products. Ø Encourage partners to leverage the features of the Symmetrix and VPLEX products in their offerings. Technical Business Consultant April 2000 June 2005 Ø Customer Engagement v Determine enabling EMC solutions based on customer s business and technology plans. v Architect storage and SAN solutions to meet customer s immediate and future needs. v Advise customers on turnkey solutions to optimize technology investments. v Provide post-sales technical support and educate customers on EMC solutions and technology. Ø Sales Support

4 v Support EMC sales team in designing TCO models. v Help sales team with a ROI model elucidating the benefits of the proposed EMC solution. v Contrast the benefits of EMC products over those of competitors to prospective customers. Ø Internal Management v Work with senior management to determine sales and marketing strategies. v Provide assistance evaluating individual performance and hiring decisions. v Act as a liaison between EMC professional services and the customers. v Train junior and mid-level EMC system engineers on storage and networking technologies. Early Career: Senior System Engineer, Delta Technology November 1997 April 2000 Senior Technical Consultant, AT&T May 1997 November 1997 Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech January 1995 May 1997 Research Assistant and Post-Doctoral Fellow, UC San Diego September 1988 December 1994 Production Manager, Voltas July 1986 September 1988 HONORS & AWARDS Ø EMC, EMC Corporation, August 2011 Ø EMC, EMC Corporation, May 2011 Ø Unsung Hero Award, EMC Corporation, March 2004 Ø TSG All Star Award, EMC Corporation, February 2003 Ø Numerous STAR Awards, EMC Corporation, April Ø Platinum Player Award, EMC Corporation, August 2002 Ø Personal Letter of Appreciation from Joe Tucci, President and CEO of EMC Corporation, 2002 Ø Systems Engineer of the Year, EMC Corporation, December 2001 Ø Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech, May 1997 Ø Chancellor s Honor List, University of Bombay, September 1986 PATENTS Ø Cloud Capable Storage Platform with Computation Operating Environment for Storage and Generic Applications, Filed September 2011 Ø VM Mobility over Distance, Filed February 2011 Ø Non-Disruptive Migration of Virtualized Machines over Synchronous Distances using Active-Active Synchronous Replication within a Storage Area Network, Filed May 2010 EDUCATION Aerospace Engineering, Ph.D. September 1990 April 1992 University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA Aerospace Engineering, M.S. September 1998 September 1990 University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA Mechanical Engineering, B.E. August 1982 June 1986 University of Bombay, Mumbai, India Class Valedictorian

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