Dr. Kumar Ganapathy is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Chairman at PrimaryIO. He is a Co-Founding team member at 3iPartners. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at AkriData. He served as Chief Executive Officer at Ampool. Previously he served as Chief Executive Officer at PrimaryIO. He is a Co-Founder & serves as Board Member of Virident Systems. Dr. Ganapathy is a Venture and Industry Partner at Ariva Partners. He was an Executive-In-Residence at Artiman Ventures. Previously, Dr. Ganapathy was the Chief Technical Officer and Co-Founder of VxTel. He is a founder, technologist, and entrepreneur. His expertise spans enterprise data centers, flash storage, semiconductors, and wireless. He was the co-founder and CEO/COO of Virident Systems, which was acquired by HGST in 2013. Kumar also founded VxTel and was the CTO of a company that was acquired by Intel in 2001. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his MS from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology at Chennai, India.