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August 2004
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As chief operating officer (COO) and
chief technical officer (CTO), Dr. Ratinder Paul Singh Ahuja brings
his technical expertise of building scalable, high performance
network-based hardware appliances to Reconnex. He is responsible for
the overall products, services and support strategy of the company.
Dr. Ahuja believes in creating value by facilitating the development
of technology that originates from the needs of the customer. Dr.
Ahuja’s unique ability to translate customer needs into technology
is the centerpiece of the corporate strategies, which will enable
the success of Reconnex and its customers.
Prior to Reconnex, Dr. Ahuja founded and developed several
successful companies that were acquired by technology market
leaders. Most recently in March 2001, Extreme Networks acquired
Webstacks, Inc., which he founded and managed as president and CEO.
His team was responsible for the significant development of
intellectual property, resulting in the filing of 14 patents. After
the acquisition, he led the research and development, quality
assurance and marketing teams as vice president of advanced
technologies at Extreme Networks, where he was credited with the
award-winning application switching product line.
In 1995, Dr. Ahuja took another of his companies, Internet Junction,
at which he developed a unique protocol translation product, to
acquisition by Cisco Systems. Dr. Ahuja then became a development
manager at Cisco, where he managed various products in the
enterprise switching and Internet appliances space. Before founding
Internet Junction, Dr. Ahuja worked in the datacom industry on
technologies such as ATM switching, communication middleware, TCP/IP
and OSI protocols.
Dr. Ahuja earned a B.E. in electronics from Thapar Institute of
Engineering and Technology in India. He earned his M.S. and Ph.D. in
Computer Engineering from Iowa State University. He is the holder of
5 patents.
Dr. Ahuja holds a 4th Degree Black Belt in TaeKwonDo and is an avid
practitioner of QiGong and weight training.
As far as his philanthropist activities are concerned, Dr. Ahuja has
been generously supporting the Punjabi Language Program at San Jose
State University for the last some years. He has also recently
joined The Sikh Foundation board as a trustee.
Dr. Ahuja lives in the Saratoga hills in the Silicon Valley of
California.
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