Abhay Parekh

BIO

Abhay Parekh received a B.E.S. in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University in 1983, a S.M. in Operations Research from the Sloan School of Management at MIT in 1985, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, where he was affiliated with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems. After obtaining hisdoctorate, Dr. Parekh was a postdoc with the MIT Laboratory for Computer Sciences. Before coming to the EECS Department at U.C. Berkeley as an Adjunct Professor in 2003, Dr. Parekh spent a number of years in industry (AT&T; the T. J. Watson Research Center; IBM Research; Sun Microsystems) working on various research problems, mostly in the area of computer networking. He was co-founder as well as President and CEO of San Francisco-based FastForward Networks which developed products to enable the large-scale distribution of broadcast video on the Internet. In 2000, FastForward Networks was sold to Inktomi, where its technology and products formed the basis of Inktomi's content networking offerings. After the merger, Dr. Parekh remained with Inktomi for a brief time as General Manager of the Media Products Division. From 2002 he has been associated with Accel Partners, an early stage venture capital firm as a Venture Partner. He currently the CEO of Lytmus Inc., an early-stage San Francisco-based company.