Mr. Medhekar joined Silicon Bandwidth with a history of accomplishments in both business and technology, most recently as Chairman & CEO of empowerTel Networks, which he grew from a start-up to 250+ employees with facilities in the US, Canada, and India. After raising more than 54 million dollars in venture funding and winning Best of Show at Networld + Interop and Product of the Year from Communications Solutions, the next-generation switching company was acquired by IP Unity.

As Chairman & CEO of Lara Technology, Ajit developed high performance silicon-based network search engines for switching and routing equipment vendors, and raised 17 million dollars in venture funding before spinning it off as an independent company while assuming the position of Chairman & CEO of empowerTel Networks. He remained Chairman until Lara's acquisition by Cypress Semiconductor. Prior to Lara, Mr. Medhekar was Vice President of Memory Products at Alliance Semiconductor and a key member of the core team from start-up to a successful public offering. He has held directorial, managerial, and technical positions with Advanced Micro Devices, National Semiconductor, and Synertek/Honeywell, among others.

Mr. Medhekar earned both a BS and an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and currently holds 13 patents. He is on the Board of Directors of IP Unity, Milpitas, CA; SIGPRO Wireless, Inc., Ottawa, Canada; Tempe, Arizona; and LMIC, Inc., Beltsville, MD.