Ravi Sethi

University of Berkeley in 1981 at the age of 28. Ravi Sethi also complete his MBA from the University of Berkeley. After a Ph.D. in Biophysics and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley, Ravi joined Intel in 1982. Later, at various companies, he served in marketing and product planning roles. At Toshiba, Ravi was the Director of the Emerging Communications Technology Products, where he worked on Token Ring, Ethernet, ATM SARs, Switch Fabric chips, and Transceiver devices. He was also responsible for embedded MIPS and compression chip technologies. Some of the technology was developed in collaboration with customers as joint ventures. While at Toshiba, Ravi conceived the idea and started a layer 3/4 Gigabit Switch company called Berkeley Networks in 1996.

Ravi Sethi was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of NetContinuum, acquired by Barracuda Networks, from November 1999 to May 2002. It designed, manufactured and sold high speed Web security equipment. Previous to founding NetContinuum, Ravi Sethi was Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Berkeley Networks. Berkeley Networks, founded in 1996, and a leading company in the Layer 3 /4 Gigabit switch area. Berkeley was sold to FORE Systems in 1998 for $250M. Later he helped sell FORE System to GE for $4.5B. Between late 1998 and 2002, Ravi Sethi invested in over half dozen companies in high technology areas like Communication ICs, IC design tools, Software, Wireless equipment Security, and in the First Call center/BPO company in India. Three of them were acquired and one went public. . Berkeley Networks quickly became one of the most successful companies in that space. Berkeley was the first company to bring Gigabit Firewall performance in a Data Switch for which it was given Best of Show award at May 1998 InterOP. Berkeley was sold to FORE Systems in Sept 1998.[2] Ravi remained with FORE systems for about a year and left after FORE was sold to GE of England, to start NetContinuum.