Agito Networks Executive Team

Amit Chawla

President and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Amit Chawla is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Agito Networks. He brings more than 24 years of telecom product development, product management, business and market development experience across wire line and emerging wireless Internet companies to Agito Networks.

Most recently, Mr. Chawla served as the Executive Vice President of Global Business Units for Veraz Networks, a leading provider of IP-enabled communications solutions in more than 60 countries, which listed on NASDAQ in 2007. Veraz Networks was formed in 2003 following the merger of ECI Telecom’s NGTS Division with NexVerse Networks, where Mr. Chawla served as CEO.

Previously, Mr. Chawla spent 13 years at Nortel Networks, most recently as Vice President of Portfolio Management. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the University of London, and a Master of Science degree from the University of Manitoba, Canada.

Tim Olson

Chief Technical Officer and Founder

Mr. Tim Olson is the CTO and a founder of Agito Networks. Utilizing his diverse background in cellular and 802.11/VoWLAN wireless technologies, he currently leads the technical direction and architectural planning of the company’s products.

Prior to founding Agito, Mr. Olson was Technical Leader in the Cisco Systems Wireless Networking Business Unit. He was recognized as a “Cisco Innovator” for his leadership in defining the Cisco Structured Wireless Aware Networking, a next-generation architecture providing advanced WLAN security, QoS, mobility, network management, intrusion detection, and RF management.

Mr. Olson joined Cisco Systems in 2000 following the acquisition of JetCell, a wireless startup that developed a GSM Base Station capable of providing GSM cellular service with a VOIP backend. At JetCell, he was an early employee and senior member of the technical staff responsible for system-level product specification, development and deployment. Prior to JetCell, Mr. Olson was Software Architect at Blue Wireless, a start-up that developed a platform using text-to-speech and speech recognition to deliver Internet content over cellular networks. Previously, at Silicon Wireless, a start-up that developed an advanced GSM Base Station and Base Station Controller, he was a key architects for the company’s defining macro-diversity combining feature.

Mr. Olson is a co-author of the initial proposal that is the basis for the forthcoming IEEE 802.11k standard for radio measurement resources. He holds more than 15 patents and pending patents in networking. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of California.

Pejman Roshan

Chief Marketing Officer and Founder

Mr. Pejman Roshan is the Vice President of Marketing and a founder of Agito Networks, responsible for outbound marketing and product management. He brings more than 16 years of wireless expertise and an extensive track record to the company.

Prior to founding Agito, Mr. Roshan was Product Line Manager in the Cisco Systems Wireless Networking Business Unit, responsible for software, security, voice and WLAN management products. Roshan joined Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit just after its acquisition of Aironet in 2000, helping drive Cisco into its wireless market leadership position.

Prior to his product role at Cisco, Mr. Roshan spent eight years as a network engineer and architect. Mr. Roshan designed and deployed large-scale networks for companies such as Cisco Systems and Automatic Data Processing (ADP).

Mr. Roshan’s accomplishments include participation in the IEEE 802.11 task groups responsible for security (802.11i) and QoS (802.11e); co-authoring the Cisco Press book 802.11 Wireless LAN Fundamentals, published by Cisco Systems in 2004; as well as publishing numerous wireless security and wireless voice white papers.

Mr. Roshan earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic (Cal Poly) University.

Mark Cashman

Vice President of Business Development

Mr. Mark Cashman is the Vice President of Business Development for Agito Networks, responsible for the company’s strategic partnerships and business development activities.

Mr. Cashman has more than 15 years of experience in product management, marketing and business development with mobility products at IBM Global Services, AT&T, GoRemote (acquired by iPass) and Fiberlink. His accomplishments include launching IBM’s Internet Connection Service in 1994 that grew from $100,000 in revenue to more than $235M over a 5 year period. While at AT&T he introduced several new remote access services that contributed to the company’s success.

In his most recent role of Director of Product Management at Fiberlink, Mr. Cashman introduced six new mobility offerings while Fiberlink successfully transitioned from a VNO to a Software as a Services company. In his role, Mr. Cashman and his team identified and delivered integrated mobility solutions based on best-of-breed partner technology, and also filed for several patent applications using neural network control to enforce security policies and address regulatory and compliance requirements.

Mr. Cashman earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from Purdue University.

Paul Donovan

Vice President of European Business and Market Development

Paul Donovan is the VP of European Business and Market Development for Agito Networks. He brings more than 20 years of successful sales and management experience in the European IT industry to the company.

Previously, Mr. Donovan was the VP, EMEA – Global, Strategic and Verticals for Juniper Networks, where he was responsible for leading key Global, Strategic accounts and Vertical business development across the EMEA theater. Prior to that, he led Juniper’s UK/I/ZA (United Kingdom, Ireland and South Africa) enterprise business, showing double digit quarterly growth while in the role for two years, and building a world-class team. He joined Juniper through the acquisition of Neoteris, where he was the VP of EMEA Sales, growing the category-leading business at almost 100% quarterly, for six quarters.

Previously, Mr. Donovan worked at Hewlett Packard, where he ran the Performance Management business for EMEA and Asia Pacific. He joined HP through its acquisition of Trinagy, where as VP of International Sales he grew the business from zero to more than 30 percent of worldwide revenues. During this time, the International team was the fastest growing sales region in the company and achieved in excess of 100 percent growth annually. Mr. Donovan was also a key member of the integration team following the merger.

Prior to Trinagy, Mr. Donovan worked at 3Com where he led major accounts sales.