Gururaj Deshpande

Gururaj Deshpande founded Coral Network Corp.
in 1988, Cascade Communications Corp.
in 1990, where he worked as Chairman, EVP-Marketing & Customer Services in 1997, Sycamore Networks, Inc. in 1998, where he worked as Chairman from 2010 to 2013, and Tejas Networks Ltd. in 2000, where he worked as Non-Independent Non-Executive Director.
Dr. Deshpande also founded Deshpande Foundation and MIT Deshpande Center For Technological Innovation.
Dr. Deshpande also currently works at WebDialogs, Inc., as Chairman from 1998, Sparta Group LLC, as Chairman & President, The Akshaya Patra Foundation, USA, as Chairman-Emeritus, Curata, Inc., as Director, MIT Corporate Advisory Services Co., Ltd., as Member, MIT Corp.
(United States), as Member, and Two Lanterns Venture Partners LLC, as Advisor.
Dr. Deshpande also formerly worked at B456 Systems, Inc., as Chairman from 2001 to 2013, Ericsson Evdo, Inc., as Director from 2000 to 2010, and The Indus Entrepreneurs, as Trustee.
Dr. Deshpande received his doctorate degree from Queen's University, graduate degree from the University of New Brunswick, and undergraduate degree from Indian Institute of Technology Madras.