Management

Ramana Jampala, President-CEO
Ramana has 17 years of work experience in the technology sector, ranging from design engineering to venture investing in technology start-ups. Most recently, Ramana was a general partner with SAS Investors, a technology focused Venture Capital fund. Prior to that, he worked with Viant as a strategy lead in San Francisco to implement digital initiatives of Fortune 500 companies and high-technology start-ups. Ramana began his career at Rockwell Automation (Allen-Bradley) in the Control and Communications Group, working as a systems design engineer for seven years. He has also served as a board member of HydroGlobe (acquired by Graver Technologies) and Reactive Nanotechnologies. Currently, Ramana is a member of the board of directors of CebaTech, Velox Semiconductor, and Lightspeed Audio. Ramana holds an MBA from London Business School and graduated with distinction with a BS in Electronics Engineering from Pune University, India.

Robert Zecha, Vice President of Operations
Rob has over 20 years experience leading high-technology companies both systems level and semiconductor in the networking market space.  In his last position at SMSC, a fabless semiconductor company, Rob held VP roles in marketing, business development and engineering, and was responsible for an $80 million networking product line including the re-organization of the S/W, H/W, QA and Product Test teams. He has been successful as an entrepreneur taking a venture-backed networking company to acquisition as its President and then became VP of Worldwide Engineering and Corporate Officer leading the H/W and S/W development of Gigabit routing Ethernet switches while taking them into production.  He is a member of the IEEE, past steering team member at the UNH Labs for Token Ring and a past member of the ANSI X3T9.5 committee for FDDI.  He holds a BSEE from Polytechnic University.