Rajiv Salimath – President and CEO
Rajiv has been an entrepreneur since a young age, starting his career as part of the core team of Musambi Corp. in 2000. Musambi built an innovative Application Performance Management and Automation business in a period when the industry standard was just Performance Monitorning. After Musambi was acquired in 2002 to form Symphoniq, Rajiv led the development of the key Web Applications Management Product Suite at Proactivenet, which was acquired by BMC Software in 2007.

Along with being the CEO of Amperion, Rajiv is also a Partner at GIV Venture Partners, an early stage Venture Capital firm. Rajiv works with the Boards and Management teams of several GIV portfolio companies.

Rajiv has served on the Board of The Melton Foundation, an international organization bringing together smart young leaders from five different countries.

Rajiv holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bangalore University and is an Indian National Scholar, Melton Fellow and an AMTI Math Scholar.

His research interests include Game Theory, Probability models for social patterns, and hybrid broadband network applications.

Ken Gerbetz - SVP Operations and Marketing
Ken Gerbetz brings more than 25 years of management and consulting experience in the areas of product development, technical operations, marketing, and business development. He has consulted for leading organizations in the electronics, telecommunications, software, and automotive industries.

Prior to joining Amperion, Ken served as Senior Vice President of Marketing Sciences at Hill, Holliday, Vice President of Marketing at Whoosh, Senior Director of Strategy at J. Walter Thompson, and he held management positions at Motorola in the areas of engineering, marketing, and strategy.

Ken holds a BSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, an MBA from SUNY at Buffalo, and an S.M. in the Management of Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Nachum Sadan – VP Engineering
Nachum was Chief Operation Officer and Senior VP Engineering of Mintera Optical Networks where he oversaw technical development of a 40 Gbps optical networking transport product for two years.

Nachum was Executive Vice President of Engineering and Operations at Sitara Networks, delivering Quality of Service (QoS) products to large enterprise and service provider customers. During this period the company grew from a technology start-up into a high gross margin, revenue-producing business, serving major enterprise and telecommunications carriers worldwide.

Nachum was also the cofounder and VP of Engineering of CommHome Systems, a residential gateway start-up that was later acquired by Network-1 and the VP Engineering of Bus-Tech Inc., an internetworking startup where he was also a founding member.

He holds an MSEE degree from Northeastern University in Massachusetts and a BSEE degree, cum laude from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Nachum is a member of the MIT Enterprise Forum, MassComm Council, American Technion Society, Northeastern University Alumni Association and IEEE.