Koichi Narasaki, President and CEO

Koichi Narasaki has more than 25 years of experience in the global Information Technology markets as a business and corporate development executive. Prior to joining IP Infusion, he was senior vice president of corporate development and finance at ACCESS Co. Ltd. (IP Infusion's parent company), a global provider of advanced software for communications markets. At ACCESS, he drove the 3 major acquisition deals, i.e. PalmSource, Inc. (U.S.A.), Naraworks, Inc. (Korea), and IP Infusion Inc. Previously, he held senior business and corporate development positions at Lineo, Inc. (U.S.A.) and Mitsubishi International (U.S.A.) Mr. Narasaki started his business career with Mitsubishi Corporation, one of the largest conglomerates in the world, where he was the senior manager of Telecomm Network Systems Dept, Information Systems Marketing Dept. as well as many other managerial positions for 17 years. While at Mitsubishi, he led a strategic founding investment deal into an emerging PCS carrier Go Communications Corporation (VA, U.S.A.) and was seconded there as the Director of Corporate Development, and participated in the world's first radio spectrum auction organized by F.C.C.

Mr. Narasaki holds a Bachelor's degree from Waseda University, an MBA from University of Phoenix, and a U.S. CPA certificate. He is also a Japanese Government certified Chief Transmission And Switching Engineer (Densou Koukan Shunin Gijutusha) as well as a Chief Radio Technical Operator (Dai 1-kyuu Rikujou Musen Gijutsushi).

Kunihiro Ishiguro, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Kunihiro Ishiguro is a leading Internet engineer, and has particular expertise in domains and Internet Protocol routing. Mr. Ishiguro is an active member of the JPNIC, which is the Internet domain and IP address management body for Japan. He is the founder and chairman of Japan Network Operators Group (JANOG), a regular participant on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) committees and has submitted several draft RFCs. Prior to establishing IP Infusion Inc. in San Jose, Mr. Ishiguro worked for Software Research Associates as a Senior Engineer at NIS, a joint venture between British Telecom and Marubeni, and Digital Magic Labs, Inc. Mr. Ishiguro holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degree from Hokkaido University.

Vividh Siddha, Vice President of Engineering

Vividh Siddha has over a decade of technology development and management expertise in computer networking, wireless communications and software. Vividh joined IP Infusion in 2001 as a Principal Engineer and was instrumental in the architecture and development of ZebOS®. In his current role, Vividh is responsible for the product strategy and engineering driving R&D and product lifecycles. Before heading engineering, Vividh worked as Director of Engineering successfully delivering Carrier Ethernet, MPLS and High Availability solutions for ZebOS®.

Prior to IP Infusion, Vividh acquired a range of experiences developing solutions in routing and wireless technologies. At Coree Networks, Vividh worked as part of the architecture team designing industry's first highly scalable core router. Vividh has worked at Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs Innovations working on the design and development of 3G wireless and multimedia systems. Vividh started his career at Siemens AG working on the design of GSM network infrastructure equipment.

Vividh graduated with a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Pune, India. He is a member of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies and the ACM.

Shane Rigby, Vice President Global Sales

Shane Rigby joined IP Infusion in 2006 as Director of Sales for EMEA, and subsequently was promoted to Vice President Global Sales. In this capacity Shane is responsible for the geographic sales team's performance in the selling of ZebOS® throughout EMEA/USA, and more recently, adding the roles of overseeing Support, Services and Product Management.

Before working for IP Infusion, Shane was European Director of Sales and Marketing at Jungo, the premier Israel based software developer for Home/Business gateways. Additionally, Shane has held several positions with AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) over a 15-year tenure, as an FAE, Technical Manager and Networking Products Marketing. This capacity included successfully spending 4 years in Asia (Hong Kong) and 2 years in the USA (Sunnyvale)

After graduation, Shane started working for Redifusion Computers, on an advanced Computer emulation hardware/software platform.

Shane graduated with Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Electronics from Brighton University in the UK. He is a Corporate Member of the IEEE and IET, and holds a Chartered Engineering lifetime status.

Asif Hazarika, Senior Director Product Management

As director of product management at IP Infusion Inc. (IPI), Asif Hazarika has full responsibility for the product marketing and management for the company's ZebOS product line. Asif joined IP Infusion in March 2009, with over 20 years experience in the marketing, design and development of semiconductor products. Before joining IPI, Asif was director of the Networking Solution Group at Fujitsu Microelectronics America.

Prior to that, Asif spent ten years in various positions in the networking industry with industry leaders AMD, IBM, Lucent Microelectronics, and Luminous Networks, developing chips for a variety of networking and telecom application in QoS.

Asif has a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from Oregon State University. He is a member of the IEEE, and is participating in the IEEE 802.3/802.1 subcommittees and working groups for Congestion Management, Backplane Ethernet, 10GBaseT and others.