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Sunil Gaitonde

Advisor at TraknProtect

Sunil is serial entrepreneur and a leading technologist who provides TraknProtect keen technical insight to working with large enterprise clients and building sustainable scalable companies that can easily evolve with shifting market needs and customer requirements. He currently serves as the CEO of kPoint Technologies, a software platform that enables search feature in videos. Prior to kPoint, Sunil founded Great Software Laboratory (GS Lab) in 2003 in the domain of next generation communication and collaboration infrastructure. Sunil has also served as the Chairman of Sarvega, which he founded in Chicago in 2000. During his tenure as the CEO of Sarvega, he raised over $20M in venture capital and the company deployed the world’s first XML appliance in production in 2001 and is the only company to deploy XML networking equipment in Global 1000 enterprises, carriers, and governments worldwide. Sarvega was acquired by Intel in August 2005. Sunil had also founded Internet Junction in 1994 which became, in 1995, the sixth overall Cisco acquisition. Sunil joined Cisco Systems in 1995 as a result of Cisco’s acquisition of Internet Junction and led teams to build appliances such as Cisco Cache engine, Micro Web Server and IpXchange Server.

Sunil is a charter member of TiE. He holds several patents in the field of data communications and has written numerous papers in reputed journals. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University and a B. Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

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