RK

Rajiv Khemani

Founder of Aurascape.ai

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-founder, President and CEO

    2022 - Current

    Disruptive innovation for the blockchain and AI infrastructure space, driving breakthrough scalability and sustainability. Cutting edge 4nm and 3nm-based silicon, systems and cloud solutions, engineered in the USA.

  • Co-founder & CEO

    2023

    Ground-up AI cybersecurity SaaS solution for the GenAI era. Essential to enable enterprises to safely adopt AI and protect against rapidly expanding attack surfaces. World class team with stellar track record in cybersecurity and AI, along with several patent-pending innovations.

  • Investor & Board roles

    2021

    Co-founder & Partner, AIspace Ventures (https://aispacevc.com) 2023 - Present BOD & investor, Aviz Networks (https://aviznetworks.com) 2022 - Present Advisor, Marvell Technology (MRVL), 2021-2022 Management Board Member, Stanford Business School, 2011-2015

  • Co-founder, President and CEO

    2014 - 2021

    Innovium (now part of MRVL) is a leading provider of cloud & AI optimized network switch solutions. Led the company and an outstanding team, from inception through multiple funding rounds by blue-chip investors to $100M/yr+ run-rate and acquisition by MRVL (~$1.3 billion at close). Innovium delivered the fastest cloud scale switch with lowest latency, resulting in deployments at the largest cloud providers. It became the first network silicon unicorn, achieved 100+ patents, 25+% share in cloud data-center networks and won several awards including GSA most respected private company nomination & Red Herring Global 100.

  • COO and executive/GM roles

    2003 - 2013

    Cavium, a leader in network, security & mobile infrastructure, was acquired by MRVL for $6B in 2018. As part of the leadership team, helped take Cavium (Nasdaq: CAVM) from early startup stage, through significant revenue growth, profitability & IPO to a leading public company with multi-$B valuation & peak design wins of >$500M/yr. Held executive roles including COO, VP & VP/GM leading marketing, sales, engineering and operations. Drove strategy, roadmaps, customer wins and operational execution. Integrated acquisitions and managed through a variety of macro conditions. Cavium achieved 300+ OEM wins, including most blue-chip vendors across enterprise, cloud and service-provider markets, and fueled critical innovations, performance and growth of e-commerce, security, mobile and networking infrastructure.

  • GM and Director of Marketing

    1998 - 2003

    GM for network processor BU. Managed product & technical marketing, and ecosystem development for IXP portfolio. Led the business to #1 market-share. Joined via Intel's $225M acquisition of Netboost where I led business development.

  • Manager, Strategy/Marketing

    1996 - 1998

    Managed strategy, business development and Windows/CIFS marketing. Responsible for NTAP's first acquisition and alliance with Microsoft (CIFS & network storage support for Exchange/SQLserver).

  • Senior Product Manager

    1990 - 1996

    Held engineering and product management roles. Experience covered Solaris, SPARCServer, NFS/CIFS & Database areas. Responsible for Product Marketing, Solaris MP performance, Competitive analysis, Sales/SE/Channel Training.

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