Management Team

Management

Buddhadeb (Bud) Biswas (Co-Founder, President and CEO)


Bud has a proven track record of starting networking companies and growing them into profitable businesses, and has over twenty years of industry experience in the high speed networking area in both technical and management positions. He founded Digital Technology, which was acquired by Agilent Technologies in the year 2000. He was also one of the founding partners in Network Software, a networking consulting company and in CCS, one of the first portable PC companies in the early eighties. Bud has an MS in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Computer Science from Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Bud can be reached at bbiswas@polarisnetworks.net

Vinay Gupta (Co-Founder, Chief Technical Officer)


Vinay has over thirteen years of industry experience in the computer networking and telecommunication areas. At Polaris Networks, he has lead the company's efforts in developing networking protocol software, test tools and applications in technologies such as Wireless LAN, WiMAX, RFID and LTE. Before co-founding Polaris, Vinay headed Agilent Technologies' R&D center in Kolkata. He was earlier in charge of Dynamic Digital Technology, where he was instrumental in growing the company to the level at which it was acquired by Agilent Technologies. Under his guidance, Polaris engineering team has grown from 10 to 70. Vinay has BS in Computer Science from IIT Mumbai and an MS in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Vinay can be reached at vinay_gupta@polarisnetworks.net

Sujit Purkayastha (Vice President, Business Development)


Sujit Purkayastha has over 30 years of industry experience in the United States in the telecom and wireless networking areas. Sujit provides the strategic direction for Polaris in emerging technologies, with a special focus on 3G and LTE test tools, and guides the company in developing strategic alliances with its customers and partners. Prior to joining Polaris, he was the VP of Marketing for Digital Technology Inc (DTI), where he was instrumental in developing several OEM relationships which eventually led to DTI's acquisition by Agilent Technologies for its ATM and MPLS test products. He held senior marketing positions at Agilent for several years. Prior to DTI, Sujit worked in senior management and business development roles in companies in the networking and communications sector, ranging from small enterprises to Fortune 500 companies. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India and a MBA from Drexel University, USA.

Sujit can be reached at sujit@polarisnetworks.net

Aditya Saraf (Vice President, Sales & Marketing)


Aditya Saraf has been involved in several startup ventures in the areas of software development and business process outsourcing over the last decade. He has been instrumental in growing these startups to successful mid-size businesses. Aditya brings with him a wealth of entrepreneurial, operational, strategic, and transaction experience. He has a Bachelor's degree in Finance and an MBA with specializations in Marketing and Finance from TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI).

Aditya can be reached at aditya_saraf@polarisnetworks.net

Engineering Team


Polaris takes special pride in recruiting and training its engineers. All engineers come from the top schools in India with BS and/or MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. We provide them extensive training both in India and in the US. We encourage our managers and engineers to attend technical conferences worldwide to have a firsthand glimpse of the latest developments in technology.