Full bio
As Retrevo's founder and fearless leader, Vipin is responsible for
setting the company's direction and guiding it to success. Before
Retrevo, as Vice President & General Manager, Vipin conceived,
started, launched and ramped up Extreme Networks Wi-Fi business, which
he grew to contribute more than 5% to company's revenue within six
months of launching the product, shipping and ramping up sales of two
generations of unified access products in less than two years. Prior to
Extreme Networks, Vipin was a co-founder of Telseon, a pioneer in
IP-based Metro Service Delivery where as the Vice President of Systems
Engineering, he managed all aspects of pre- and post-sales engineering
support, OSS/BSS development and architecture, deploying fiber-based
Ethernet networks in more than 20 metropolitan areas in the U.S. in
less than one year. The company was later sold to OnFiber which was
sold to Qwest. Earlier in his career he was a member of the CTOs office
at 3Com Corporation. Vipin is the inventor of IEEE 802.1X, the security
protocol in wireless and wireline Ethernet, and has been awarded 13
patents. He has a graduate degree in Physics and undergraduate degree
in Electrical Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India. In his free time he
enjoys spending time with his family and using Retrevo to get the most
out of his home theatre system.