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B.V. Jagadeesh
Chief Executive Officer and President
B.V. Jagadeesh is a highly regarded business executive with a proven track record of managing and building market leaders. Before joining 3Leaf Systems, Mr. Jagadeesh served as Group Vice President and General Manager of Citrix Systems' Application Networking Group. Prior to the acquisition of NetScaler by Citrix Systems, Mr. Jagadeesh served as President and CEO of NetScaler. During his tenure, Mr. Jagadeesh grew NetScaler to become the market leader in Application Delivery Systems until its acquisition by Citrix for $325M in 2005. Prior to NetScaler, Mr. Jagadeesh co-founded Exodus Communications. During his tenure at Exodus, he successfully helped the company grow from start-up to a leader in the Web co-location market and was instrumental in leading its highly successful initial public offering (IPO). Jagadeesh has also held various management and engineering positions at Novell and 3Com.

Mr. Jagadeesh holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Bangalore University and a master's degree in electrical engineering from University of Bombay, India.

Bob Quinn
Founder, Chairman and Chief Technology Officer
Bob Quinn has more than 20 years of high-tech industry experience. Before 3Leaf, Mr. Quinn was founder and CEO of Network Virtual Systems (NVS), which developed scalable architectures and chips for x86 and Itanium SMP servers. Prior to NVS, he was founder and chairman of iMODL, an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software company.

Mr. Quinn has served as chairman of TransEDA, an EDA software company traded on the London Exchange; and has held senior management positions at Unisys, Trilogy, Arix and Exxon. Mr. Quinn received an honors BSEE degree from University College, Cork, Ireland.

Justin Barney
Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Justin Barney is a seasoned sales executive with a successful record of selling infrastructure solutions to Fortune 500 and global online e-businesses. Before joining 3Leaf, Barney was a vice president of sales at Citrix Systems, a leader in application delivery infrastructure. There, he was responsible for sales and field marketing for all major Citrix software and hardware products in the Western Region, the number one sales region for the products and solutions under Barney’s management from 2005-2007. Prior to that, Mr. Barney held senior marketing and sales positions at NetScaler, a leader in high-performance application delivery systems acquired by Citrix. Prior, Barney spent 4 years on Wall Street as an Investment Banker and Private Equity Investment professional. He received his Bachelors Degree in Finance from the University of Colorado, and a Masters in Business Administration from the Wharton School in Philadelphia. Barney served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves from 1992 – 1998.

Darach Beirne
Vice-President, Customer Support and Professional Services
Darach is responsible for all Support and Services activity at 3Leaf and has more than 18 years of Enterprise level multi-national high-tech experience. Prior to joining 3Leaf, Darach held senior management roles in support and services with companies such as InQuira, Siebel, Scopus, Computer Associates and Ingres in various geographical locations including United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands and Ireland.

Scott Lurndal
Technical Director and Co-Founder
Scott Lurndal oversees the system architecture of 3Leaf products and the core technologies used to develop them. Before 3Leaf, Mr. Lurndal was chief technologist at NanoBiz, an XML-based PKI solution company founded in early 2000 that was subsequently acquired by Verisign. He remained at Verisign for four years in a technical leadership role for J2EE web services and cryptographic technologies. Prior to NanoBiz, he provided key expertise for the development of a virtual machine architecture for the Origin 2000 at SGI. While at SGI, he developed and released to the open source community the Linux Kernel Debugger. Prior to SGI, Mr. Lurndal spent 14 years with Unisys, where he held several key leadership roles in architecting, designing, and implementing a single system image distributed operating system for massively parallel x86 servers. Scott holds a BS in computer science from Iowa State University.

Isam Akkawi
Technical Director and Co-Founder
Isam Akkawi is responsible for processor-level architecture and development at 3Leaf. He has more than 19 years of experience in system design, implementation and simulation at companies including Unisys, Network Virtual Systems, Nvsys, and nVidia. Mr. Akkawi has been the lead technical expert on scalable system developments requiring multiple complex ASICs for the x86 market. He holds a BSEE from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and an MSEE from the University of California, Santa Barbara.