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Kris Shankar has over 17 years technical and management experience in the telecommunications industry working for firms such as Nortel Networks, Fujitsu Network Communications and Ericsson. During this tenure, he was involved in the planning, design and deployment of several custom silicon-based products such as Digital Loop Carriers, Class-V switches, DSLAMs, ATM concentrators, OC3-OC192 SONET multiplexers and 2.4Tb/s ultra long-haul DWDM equipment. He was also a co-founder of Metro-Optix, a venture-funded optical startup acquired by Xtera Communications in 2004. He received his B.E. (Honors) from Regional Engineering College, Trichy, India and his M.S.E.E. from the University of Houston. He serves on the technical advisory board of Panorama Capital, a technology investment firm based in Menlo Park, CA. | 