Ajay Malik
SVP WW Engineering & Quality Assurance
Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce the placement of Ajay Malik as Senior Vice President, Worldwide Engineering & Quality Assurance at Meru Networks. The search was led by Mark Lonergan.
About Ajay
Ajay joins Meru Networks with over 20 years of engineering leadership and entrepreneurial experience in developing award-winning products in the software, mobile/wireless, and networking industries. Prior to joining Meru, Ajay held leadership positions at Hewlett-Packard Company, where he was vice president of engineering, mobility solutions, HP Networking Group, and at Cisco’s Wireless Networking Group, where he was responsible for controller, management, and services functions across the wireless product portfolio. Prior to that, he was head of engineering and advanced development in the Wireless LAN Division of Symbol Technologies/Motorola and championed Motorola’s foray into real-time Wi-Fi location.
Ajay has a BE in computer science from IIT Roorkee, India, and over 70 patents issued/pending in Wi-Fi, location, and management.
About Meru Networks
Meru Networks (NASDAQ: MERU) is a market leader in the development of mobile access and virtualized Wi-Fi solutions. Meru’s MobileFLEX wireless architecture addresses the ever-growing need for higher bandwidth and higher client densities. The Meru Identity Manager solution greatly simplifies secure device on-boarding and the company’s unique Context-aware Application Layers enable dedicated channel assignments for specific applications, devices and usage scenarios. Meru customers include Fortune 500 businesses as well as leaders in education, healthcare and hospitality. Founded in 2002, Meru is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with operations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Japan.
I am extremely pleased to have Ajay join Meru, and welcome this strong addition to our executive leadership team. I am confident that Ajay can help Meru solidify its technical leadership and continue to lead the market in delivery of advanced mobility solutions.
Dr. Bami Bastani, President & CEO, Meru Networks
I look forward to working with the teams at Meru to move the company forward in this progressive phase of its development.
Ajay Malik, SVP, WW Engineering & Quality Assurance, Meru Networks
Ajay helped develop the wireless networking business at Cisco from that division’s earliest stages. He is a great technology executive respected globally in the wireless networking market.
Mark Lonergan, Founder & Managing Partner, Lonergan Partners