Dr. Sharad Mehrotra, president and chief executive officer of Fabric7, leads the company with over 20 years of experience in enterprise servers and high performance networking equipment. He served as entrepreneur-in-residence at New Enterprise Associates, where he developed the key technology and market concepts that led to the formation of Fabric7. Dr. Mehrotra was a founder and chairman and CEO of Procket Networks, an advanced networking startup that was acquired by Cisco Systems. Previously, as an architect at Sun Microsystems, he was a key contributor in the design of the Sun UltraSPARC V microprocessor. Dr. Mehrotra holds four degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, including a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Masters in Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. During his career, he has been granted ten U.S. patents.