Number of Founded Organizations 1
CB Rank (Investor) 107,142
  • Primary Job Title Co-Founder & CEO
  • Primary Organization 
    Baffle

Ameesh Divatia is CEO & co-founder of Baffle, Inc., which provides an advanced data protection solution for databases. He has a proven track record of turning technologies that are difficult to build into successful businesses, selling three companies for more than $425 million combined in the service provider and enterprise data center

infrastructure market.

Baffle is Ameesh’s third startup dealing with how data is stored and used in IT. Prior to starting Baffle, he led a premier CMOS photonics innovator (Lightwire Inc.) from technology development into product development leading up to an acquisition by Cisco Systems, Inc. for $271M within a timespan of 29 months. He has also founded two venture-funded startups: Aarohi Communications (Storage Virtualization, acquired by Emulex Corporation for $39M) and PipeLinks Inc. (Optical Networking, acquired by Cisco Systems for $126M).

Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 3
Ameesh Divatia is the Co-Founder & CEO at Baffle. Additionally, Ameesh Divatia has had 3 past jobs including President and Chief Executive Officer at Lightwire.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Lightwire
President and Chief Executive OfficerOct 2009Jul 2012
Aarohi communication
Founder & CEOApr 1, 2001Sep 30, 2008
PipeLinks
Founder & CTOJul 5, 1996Mar 31, 2001