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Ashish Vengsarkar joined Nistica as CEO in the Spring of 2006. He came to Nistica from Meriton Networks where he was Vice President of Global Business Development. Prior to Meriton, Ashish founded the ROADM pioneer Photuris in January 2000, where he was Vice President of Product Marketing.
Ashish began his career in Bell Labs developing optical fiber devices and subsystems. He transitioned to Lucent’s optical business unit as Director of Product Management for Metro Optical Networks where he led the launch of the WaveStar 400G optical transport system. He has more than 30 patents, many of them utilized in current optical networking products.
Ashish received his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Master's and Ph.D. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and an Executive MBA from the Wharton School, where he was a Palmer Scholar. | 