Ajay Virginkar is an experienced professional in the routing and switching industry with over 13 years of experience in leadership roles ranging from engineering to business development and sales. He has worked with major Tier 1 Equipment Vendors and managed a nationwide sales engineering team for Tellabs where he directly interacted with major Tier 1 MSOs, CLECs, and International Carriers. Prior to setting up Benison Technologies, Ajay was part of the management team at IPInfusion Inc. where he held leadership roles in sales and business development. He was responsible for providing Protocol stack source code and engineering services and solutions to major Tier 1 Equipment Vendors. Furthermore, Ajay holds a patent related to optimizing multicast operations in hardware. With his diverse experience in different roles and parts of the communications ecosystem, he has gained a unique perspective of the requirements and needs of the entire industry, and he is based in Fremont, California.