Ameesh Divatia

CEO & Co-Founder of Baffle

Ameesh Divatia is the co-founder & CEO of Baffle, Inc. 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. 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 time span 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).