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Rohit Sharma focuses on companies in the areas of network computing, storage, and data communications technologies. As application architectures evolve, software, hardware, and systems infrastructure utilized for delivery of network based applications to the enterprise and consumers must change and evolve. This infrastructure investment opportunity is the primary focus for Rohit’s investments at MDV.
Rohit has been a successful entrepreneur in the MDV ecosystem, creating the optical switching technology that led to the founding of ONI Systems in 1998. He served as ONI Systems EVP and CTO overseeing all aspects of technology development and strategy at the time of its IPO. He later served as SVP & CTO of Metro Networking after ONI’s merger with Ciena in 2002. Previously, Rohit was with Telecom Research Labs in Canada and holds several US patents in the areas of computing, signal processing, and optical networking.
He holds PhD and MSc degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and a BSc degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering from NIT Kurukshetra, India.
