Bis Mukherjee, PGS Founder, is also Distinguished Professor of computer networks at UC Davis, where he has been for 25 years. He was a Member of the Board of Directors of IPLocks, a Bay Area startup company (2002-07). He has served on the Advisory Board of many startups, including Teknovus (acquired by Broadcom). Most of his 47 PhD alums work in Bay Area companies (Cisco, AT&T, Sprint, Google, Oracle, Apple, HP, Brocade, Broadcom, Ericsson, etc.)

Pulak Choudhury is Vice President (R&D) at PGS where he leads the technical group for developing next-generation network energy management solutions. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UC Davis and the M.A.Sc. degree in Software Engineering from McMaster University, Canada. He has published numerous scholarly papers on energy-efficient networking. He is an alumnus of UC Davis Green Technology Entrepreneurship Academy 2009.

Akio Sakamoto retired as General Manager of NEC America in 1996 after a 20-yr career. He was Founder, President, and CEO of HolonTech (server load balancer appliance; 1996-2001); Auraline (E-marketing ASP; 2001-02); and IPLocks (database security software; 2002-08). After IPLocks’ M&A with Fortinet, he became Chief Strategist and Far East Asia VP of Fortinet.