Vivek Bansal has over 18 years of executive management experience in private and public companies, including start-up, high growth and established and global multinational organizations. Vivek has held various executive positions at GlobespanVirata (now Conexant) as the Executive Vice President and General Manager responsible for worldwide marketing, product development and corporate strategies. Having successfully scaled up GlobespanVirata, the company finally merged with Conexant in 2004, to form a $900+ million world leader in the broadband semiconductor segment. Prior to this, Vivek founded Ficon Technology, a leading product and communication systems and solutions provider for broadband platforms which was then acquired by Globespan. Vivek also worked at NEC Research Laboratories, where he was part of the R&D team whose efforts led to the very inception of broadband technology. Vivek currently serves as Board Member of Infopro, Imetris, Aniotek, Vitendo Systems and Accela Media. He is also an active board member in the Liberty group in India. Vivek has an engineering degree from MS University, India and a Masters in Computer Science from Kansas State University, USA.