Syed Ali, President & CEO
Syed B. Ali is one of our founders and has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors since the inception of the company in 2000. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Ali was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Malleable Technologies, a communication chip company of which he was a founding management team member. Malleable Technologies was acquired by PMC Sierra, a communication IC company in 2000. From 1994 to 1998, Mr. Ali was an Executive Director at Samsung Electronics where he started the Flash memory and CPU businesses and put together the business plans that drove sales in each line to over a $100M in less than two years. Prior to that, he had various positions at Wafer Scale Integration, a division of SGS-Thompson, Tandem Computer, and American Microsystems. He received a BSEE from Osmania University, in Hyderabad, India and an MSEE from the University of Michigan.

Arthur Chadwick, Vice President of Finance & Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Arthur D. Chadwick has served as our Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer since December 2004. Prior to joining us, from 1989 to 2004, Mr. Chadwick served as the Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer at Pinnacle Systems, a provider of digital video processing solutions. At Pinnacle, he helped the company grow from early stage start-up to an industry leader in digital video editing products with annual revenues of $340 million. His background includes helping Pinnacle Systems through its Initial Public Offering in 1994, two successful follow-on public stock offerings, the acquisition of more than twenty smaller companies and its expansion into international markets. From 1979 through 1989, Mr. Chadwick served in various financial and management roles at American Microsystems, Austrian Microsystems and Gould Semiconductor. Mr. Chadwick received a BS degree in Mathematics and an MBA in Finance, both from the University of Michigan .

Anil Jain, Vice President of IC Engineering
Anil K. Jain has served as our Vice President of IC Engineering since 2001, and is a founding management team member. Prior to joining us, from 1998 to 2000 he was at Compaq Computer, a computer manufacturer. From 1980 to 1998, Mr. Jain served at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) when DEC was acquired by Compaq Computer. He has worked on several generations of DEC Alpha processors including the Alpha 21164 and 21364, and the CMOS VAX CPU. He has 5 patents issued and has published several papers in leading technical journals and conferences including the ISSCC. He received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh India , and an MSEE from the University of Cincinnati.

Rajiv Khemani, Vice President of Marketing and Sales
Rajiv Khemani has served as our Vice President of Marketing and Sales since January 2007 and has served as our Vice President of Marketing since June 2003. Prior to joining us, from 1998 to May 2003, he worked for Intel Corporation, a microprocessor IC company. From 2002 to 2003, he served as General Manager of Intel's high-end network processor business unit. From 1999 to 2002, he served as Director of Marketing in Intel's network processor division where he led the product and technical marketing organizations to define and market Intel's network processor products and achieve industry-leading market share. He joined Intel through Intel's acquisition of Netboost, a network processor startup. Prior to Netboost, Mr. Khemani held engineering, marketing and management positions at Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems. He received a bachelor degree in Computer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, an MS in Computer Science from New York University and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Muhammad Raghib Hussain is one of our founders and has served as our Vice President of Software Engineering, and CTO since 2003. Prior to 2003 he served as a Director of Software and Systems Engineering. From 1999 to August 2000, he served at Cisco Systems, a network equipment company. From 1996 to 1999, he served as a Principal Design Engineer at Cadence Design Systems, an EDA design services company. Prior to that, Mr. Hussain served as Design Engineer at VPNet, an enterprise security company, of which he was a founding team member. At VPNet, he was a key contributor to the design of the first commercial IPSec based VPN (Virtual Private Network) gateway. Mr. Hussain has presented at several major communication and networking conferences and has 19 pending or issued patents in the field of networking and security. He received a BS degree in Computer Systems Engineering from NED University in Karachi, Pakistan, and an MS degree in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University.

Andrew Rava, Vice President of Sales
Andrew J. Rava has served as our Vice President of Sales since July 2004. Prior to joining us, from 2003 to June 2004, Mr. Rava served as Vice President of Sales, Ethernet Products at Vitesse Semiconductor, a semiconductor communication company. In 2003, he served as Vice President of Sales at Cicada Semiconductor, which was acquired by Vitesse in that year. From 2000 to 2003 he was at Broadcom, a communications semiconductor company, where he was responsible for managing tier-1 OEM accounts. Mr. Rava joined Broadcom when they acquired Altima Communications, an Ethernet chip company, in 2000 where he was Vice President of Sales. From 1997 to 1999 he was Vice president of North American Sales for Disco Corporation, a publicly traded Japanese semiconductor equipment manufacturer. Mr. Rava received an MBA degree from LaSalle University.

Syed Zaheer, Vice President of Operations
Syed A. Zaheer has served as our Vice President of Operations since 2001. Prior to joining us, from 2000 to August 2001, Mr. Zaheer served as Director of Product and Test Engineering for the Internetworking Products Division of Integrated Device Technology, an integrated circuit supplier, where he brought several high volume processor and PHY products to production. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Product Engineering manager for Centuar Technology, a subsidiary of IDT. He received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Osmania University , Hyderabad, India and an MSEE degree from Arizona State University.

Sandeep Vij,  Vice President of Strategic Markets & Business Development
Sandeep Vij has served as our Vice President of Strategic Markets & Business Development since May 2008.
Prior to joining Cavium Networks, Mr. Vij held the position of Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Services and Support for Xilinx Inc. As the longest serving member of Xilinx’s executive staff, he was responsible for all of their worldwide marketing, business operations and support activities across all divisions, products, end markets, channels and geographies. During his 12-year tenure at Xilinx, Mr. Vij was instrumental in scaling Xilinx’s business from under $600M dollars per year to over $1.8B dollars per year and enabling it to become the industry’s largest programmable logic vendor. As Vice President and General Manager of the General Products Division, Mr. Vij had profit and loss responsibility for all Xilinx’s high-volume products with responsibility for product planning, integrated circuit (I.C.) design, product engineering, technology implementation, manufacturing strategy and marketing. Mr. Vij also pioneered Xilinx’s very successful vertical markets business by developing high-level intellectual property (IP) solutions for the wired communications, wireless communications, storage, server, consumer, audio/video/broadcast, industrial, scientific and medical markets

Prior to Xilinx, Mr. Vij spent five years in various senior roles at Altera Corporation where he helped scale its business from under $80M dollars per year to over $400M dollars per year. Mr. Vij also currently sits on the Board of Directors of Coherent Inc. (NASDAQ: COHR), the world’s leading manufacturer of lasers and photonics for commercial and scientific research applications.

Implementation Team

Cavium Networks has assembled a world class IC development team with extensive experience in developing high performance processors at DEC/Compaq, Lucent/Agere and Sun Microsystems. Cavium Networks software and systems team has extensive experience in developing and bringing to market security products such as VPN gateways and SSL accelerator cards at companies like Cisco, SonicWALL, VPNet, Hifn and Nortel Networks.