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BGM 2011 Organizing Board
Prem Jain ('68), Co-Chairman
Prem Jain is Senior Vice President of the Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit. He joined Cisco in 1993 as Director of Engineering when Cisco acquired Crescendo Communications. Subsequently, his positions at Cisco have included: Vice President of New Business Ventures and Vice President and General Manager within Enterprise Line of Business. He has been responsible for growing his Enterprise WAN Business Unit in Cisco to a multi-billion operation.
Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Jain was one of the founding members of Crescendo Communications and was the Vice President of Systems Architecture. He was responsible for the design and development of Crescendo's FDDI products as well as the first LAN switch, now known at the Cisco Catalyst 1200. As Director of Engineering for David Systems, Mr. Jain architected and developed third-generation integrated Data and Voice PABX equipment. Prem Jain is the recipient of two patents and is a member of the IEEE organization.
Prem also holds a Masters degree in EECS from U.C. Davis. Prem sits in the Advisory Board of the Computer Science Department at U.C. Davis. He is actively involved in volunteer work for non-profit organizations, fundraising for the homeless and helping San Francisco Bay Area schools. He is also a very active member of the BITSAA Silicon Valley Chapter.
