about aricent

Ash Bhardwaj

Chief Executive Officer

Ash has a long track record of success in building high growth businesses to address emerging markets. Over an 18-year period, he was instrumental in driving Flextronics' revenue growth from less than $100 million a year to over $15 billion annually. Ash has been the CEO of Aricent since the summer of 2005.

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Prior to assuming the CEO role, he was President of Original Design Manufacturing and Design Services at Flextronics. In this position, Ash formulated Flextronics' software development and solutions strategy and acquired and merged the various businesses that compose Aricent. Previously, Ash was President of Worldwide Sales and Strategic Accounts at Flextronics, where he successfully established and grew the company's most important customer relationships. Prior to running the global sales organization, Ash was President of Flextronics Asia-Pacific based out of Hong Kong. After quickly recognizing the manufacturing opportunity in Asia, Ash established operations in South China, and expanded Flextronics' operations into North China, India, Japan, and Malaysia. Ash holds a BSEE from the Thapar Institute of Engineering (India) and an MBA from Southeastern Louisiana University (USA).

Duncan Robertson

Chief Financial Officer

Duncan has been the financial and operational architect of success at start-ups, growth stage firms and multi-billion dollar companies. Duncan has been the Chief Financial Officer of Aricent since the summer of 2005.

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Duncan was responsible for the execution of Flextronics' software and solutions strategy at a transactional level. As a result, Duncan initiated acquisition explorations and was responsible for closing all nine of the transactions that would lead to the creation of Aricent. Previously, he was Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations for Flextronics. Simultaneously, Duncan continued to oversee Flextronics' product development functions as interim Senior Vice President of Design Services. Prior to his career at Flextronics, Duncan was Chief Financial Officer of Sensory, Inc., a semiconductor and software start-up. He worked closely with Sensory's top-tier venture capital investors to bring financial discipline and market focus to the young company. Prior to Sensory, Duncan was Vice President of Finance of Orbit Semiconductor and Dii after it acquired Orbit. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and an MBA from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business (USA).

Sanjay Dhawan

President and Chief Operating Officer, Aricent Software

Sanjay demonstrates the rare ability to recognize and realize new business opportunities when markets and technologies are in transition. He has driven the success of both large companies and start-ups, and he is a highly successful serial entrepreneur. As President and Chief Operating Officer of Aricent, Sanjay is responsible for its software business units, sales organization, strategic business initiatives, and a variety of corporate functions.

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Sanjay was named President and Chief Operating Officer of Aricent in October 2007. He joined Aricent in 2006 as its Chief Strategy Officer, a role in which he was responsible for company strategy and several business units. Prior to joining Aricent, Sanjay was Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Inkra Networks, which defined the virtual networking market segment through its highly acclaimed product lines. Before starting Inkra, Sanjay was Vice President of Business Development at Netopia, a leader in DSL access products. He fueled rapid growth at Netopia by focusing on sales to service providers in Europe and Asia. Sanjay joined Netopia when it acquired StarNet Technologies, which Sanjay co-founded and led as its President and CEO. StarNet was the pioneer in Voice-Over-DSL technology. Prior to building StarNet, Sanjay oversaw the Systems Engineering Business Unit at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Sanjay has authored several networking-related publications, including two books on data networking. He has led several industry consortiums and has chaired IEEE 802 and ANSI X3T9 standards sub-groups. Sanjay holds a MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from Brunel University, England, and a BS degree in Electronics and Communications from REC Kurukshetra, India.

Doreen Lorenzo

President and Chief Operating Officer, frog design

Doreen has been a driving force in improving the way people worldwide experience products and services. For over a decade, she has been critical to frog design's success and growth, both organizationally and financially.

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Prior to becoming President and COO in September 2006, Doreen was Chief Operating Officer of frog design. In this role, she was instrumental in transforming frog design from a traditional design boutique to the world's leading creative consulting firm. Under Doreen's leadership, frog established broad-based relationships with AT&T, Disney, General Electric, HP, Microsoft, Motorola, Nextel, T-Mobile, and many other Fortune 500 clients. Previously, Doreen was Director of Marketing Communications and Internet Marketing for Power Computing, where she built an online marketing division that brought in millions of dollars a day in product sales-long before Internet retailing was commonplace. Before that, she spent many years as a communications consultant in the Bay Area, where she worked with a variety of top tier clients. Doreen holds a BA from the State University of New York, Stony Brook (USA) and an MS from Boston University's School of Communications.

Alex Ousatch

President, Aricent Eastern Europe

Alex has been an innovator in software development and an expert in launching new businesses in emerging markets for over 17 years. He is a serial entrepreneur with the rare ability to transform start-ups into sophisticated, large organizations. Alex became President of Aricent Eastern Europe in the summer of 2006.

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Prior to becoming President of Aricent Eastern Europe, Alex was General Manager of Flextronics Design Ukraine, a division formed when Flextronics acquired the company AUCT in 2004. As the leader of Flextronics Design Ukraine, Alex grew his team from 200 to a mature software organization of nearly 700 people. Previously, as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of AUCT, Alex built a team with industry-leading expertise in speech and language technologies, embedded software, networking software and communications applications. The group's unique skills led to a roster of top-tier clients located in the United States, Europe and Israel. Prior to launching and growing software businesses, Alex was engaged in scientific research in the area of high performance computing. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science and a MS in electrical engineering from Vinnitsa Technical University (Ukraine).