Dr Hemant Kanakia

The underlying concepts for Dr Kanakia's vision stemmed
from his tenure at AT&T Bell Labs, where he led an elite research team of
engineers to design advanced data network switching technology. The research
forms some of the core technology of today's Internet.

Dr Kanakia is presently a partner with Columbia Capital and
focuses primarily on technology investments. He was previously founder and CEO
of Torrent Networking Technology (acquired by Ericsson), a Columbia Capital
portfolio company. Under Dr Kanakia's leadership, Torrent advanced to become a
leading innovator providing advanced Internet routing solutions to
communications companies worldwide.

Hemant also co-founded and invested in Photuris, Inc and
Gemplex, a business-networking services provider offering secure connectivity
worldwide through its flagship IP VPN product portfolio.

Dr Kanakia holds a PhD in electrical engineering from
Stanford University. He holds several patents in the field of packet and cell
switching architectures and real-time traffic management algorithms. Over a
dozen of his research papers have been published in major communications and
trade journals including those of the IEEE, JSAC and SIGCOMM.