At Meru, leadership = vision

Our leadership team shares a commitment to building an even stronger company.

Management

Dr. Bami Bastani

President and CEO

Dr. Bami Bastani was appointed Meru CEO and president and member of the Board of Directors in March 2012. He brings more than 20 years of experience as a CEO and senior executive in the semiconductor, mobility, consumer, and broadband markets. These include president and CEO roles at Trident Microsystems Inc. and ANADIGICS Inc., where, under his leadership, the company became a recognized innovator in semiconductor RF solutions for the wireless and broadband communications equipment markets. Dr. Bastani has also served in executive positions at Fujitsu Microelectronics, National Semiconductor, and Intel Corporation.

Management

Brian McDonald

Chief Financial Officer

Brian McDonald was appointed CFO of Meru in June 2013. He brings more than 30 years of financial and business experience, working with both private and public technology companies, and possesses a strong operational background. McDonald has served as CFO in a number of rapidly growing Silicon Valley technology companies, including eASIC, Inc., Monolithic Power Systems and Elantec Semiconductor, Inc., and, as CFO, led Advanced Analogic Technologies through its successful IPO in 2005.

Management

Kamal Anand

Senior Vice President and General Manager of Healthcare

Kamal Anand is responsible for leading all aspects of Meru’s business in the healthcare vertical. He has been with Meru since 2003 and has led various functional areas for the company including product management, marketing, sales, and corporate development at different times.

Anand has been a founding or early marketing and sales executive of four network infrastructure startups, helping to develop their business plans, raise more than $250 million in financing, and launch the products before these companies were successfully acquired or went public. He has also served as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. He started his career at Sun Microsystems in software development.

Management

Sarosh Vesuna

Vice President and General Manager of Education

As VP and general manager of Meru’s education business unit, Sarosh Vesuna is responsible for the overall strategy and go-to-market direction for the Meru Education-Grade Wi-Fi solutions. Vesuna joined Meru in 2008 as vice president of business development, with responsibility for identifying and developing strategic relationships and M&A.

Prior to joining Meru, Vesuna held executive roles at Motorola and Symbol Technologies, where he was responsible for wireless protocol architecture, acquisitions, OEM, technology partnerships, and the overall direction of the WLAN and VoIP business. While at Symbol, he coauthored the IEEE 802.11 WLAN protocol and cofounded the Wi-Fi Alliance, where he served on the Board of Directors for five years.

Management

Srinath Sarang

Co-Founder and General Manager of Hospitality & Entertainment

Srinath Sarang is responsible for leading Meru’s strategy in the hospitality and entertainment vertical and for relationships with managed service providers.

Sarang cofounded Meru Networks, is named inventor in multiple company patents, and has previously held senior management roles in product management, operations, and business development.

Management

Larry Vaughan

Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Field Operations

With more than 25 years of high-tech experience working for companies such as Novell, Nortel, Unisys, and IBM, Larry Vaughan brings proven sales leadership and success to Meru Networks as senior vice president heading up worldwide sales, support, and services for the company.

Vaughan joined Meru from BMC Software, where he was vice president of worldwide sales and services for growth and emerging markets. He stepped into this role after serving as vice president of worldwide field operations for sales and services for BMC.

Management

Manish Rai

Vice President, Corporate Marketing

Manish Rai brings to Meru over 14 years of experience in enterprise product, vertical, and corporate marketing.

Rai was previously head of vertical marketing at Aruba Networks, where he helped drive rapid growth in education, healthcare, and retail markets. Earlier, Rai held various senior marketing and strategy positions at Motorola, OnStation (acquired by Cobalt), eGain, Booz Allen and Hamilton, and Capital One.

Management

Bob Schiff

Vice President, Product Management

Bob Schiff has served as vice president of product management since March 2012 and is responsible for leading product management, technical marketing, and program management. Prior to this role, he was vice president of market development, developing product strategy for virtualized and cloud-based mobility solutions.

Prior to joining Meru Networks, Schiff was general manager of the enterprise business unit at Brocade (through acquisition of Foundry Networks), where he led product management, software engineering, and quality assurance for Brocade’s enterprise product lines.

Management

Keith Matasci

Senior Vice President, Worldwide Operations

Matasci is responsible for leading the operations team and overseeing the global supply chain, order fulfillment, planning, forecasting, inventory, and facilities and real estate for Meru.

Matasci’s 25 years of high-tech industry experience are a strong asset to his job overseeing manufacturing operations. Before joining Meru, he served as vice president of operations for Terayon Communications, where he managed all aspects of manufacturing. Previously, he was vice president of operations for CoSine Communications and vice president of customer service at Silicon Graphics Inc.

Management

Katherine Mancuso

Senior Vice President, Human Resources

Katherine Mancuso brings to Meru more than 20 years’ experience in human resource management, recruitment, and employee training and development.

Prior to joining Meru, Mancuso served as vice president of worldwide human resources for Interwoven Inc., an enterprise software company that was acquired by Autonomy Inc. in 2009. At Interwoven, she implemented several key initiatives, including employee engagement surveys and compensation and incentive programs, and managed the integration of several acquisitions.

Management

Tom Palomaki

Vice President, Worldwide Services & Support

With more than 25 years of high-tech experience working in sales, systems engineering, operations, customer support, and professional services, Tom Palomaki brings broad leadership and success to Meru Networks as vice president heading up worldwide customer support, professional services, and training services for the company.

Palomaki joined Meru from Novell, Inc., where he led the services team in North and South America. He was previously operations executive for the Americas, driving the company’s productivity improvement and strategic initiatives.  

Earlier in his Novell career, Palomaki held a variety of regional sales leadership roles, including northeast area sales director and both major account and channel director positions.  
Prior to Novell, Palomaki began his career leading the deployment of network technology for six years at several large education and healthcare organizations.