Badri Gomatam

Business and Technology professional with experience in managerial and business roles in Networking/Telecom Systems, IC, Photonics, and related industries. Domain expertise in photonics and interconnects subsystems architecture in Server, Transport/WDM, Enterprise Networking and Access/PON and Storage communications markets. Comprehensive long- and short-range view of new technologies, trends and potential market impact in above areas. Experienced strategist in corporate product development as well as sponsored Government/DoD programs. Sustained and grew portfolio of optoelectronic and IC product line to a several multi-million dollar business in optical and wired communications. Initiated and/or promoted efforts within industry standards bodies including SFP+, IEEE (10/40/100G Ethernet), ANSI-T11 (Fibre Channel), ITU-T (Transport) and FSAN (GPON) to standardize new IC technologies in fiber communications. Marketing Chair for Ethernet Alliance 10GBASE-KR Working Group. Widely traveled internationally with experience in worldwide customer development, technical marketing, and pre/post sales activities with personal interests in Asia and emerging economies.