PJ Singh
Founder and CEO
Krishnan Sunderam
Founder and VP Engineering

B Jagadish
VP Sales and Marketing


PJ Singh
Founder and CEO

PJ has over 17 years of experience in the Networking Industry. Before founding BA Systems he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Bessemer Venture Partners. He joined Bessemer after a distinguished career in high-tech start-ups. He founded Allegro Networks, and served as CEO, CTO and VP of Engineering.

Previously he was General Manager at Alcatel's development facility in Spokane Washington, a position he assumed when Alcatel acquired Packet Engines, where he was a founder, principal architect, and VP of Engineering. PJ's prior experience came from Bay Networks and David Systems, where he was a software architect prior to its acquisition by Chipcom and then by 3Com.

PJ was a doctoral candidate in Mathematics at the Southern Illinois University, and co-authored the IEEE's 802.1P/q standard for VLANs and quality of service over Ethernet.

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Krishnan Sunderam
Founder and VP Engineering

Krishnan has worked in a list of networking companies designing routers and switches. He graduated with an engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunications and has a Masters in Computer Science. He was a key lead member of the engineering effort at Allegro Networks.

Krishnan started out at Retix and was part of the team implementing Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols. He was an integral member of the design team for a very successful IMA implementation. At Quarry Technologies he was responsible for the initial Layer 3 protocol support. His experience includes implementation of the initial designs of MPLS Traffic Engineering over OSPF. At NextHop he worked on the Layer 3 VPN implementation. He has extensive knowledge and experience working on routers and switches.

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B Jagadish
VP Sales and Marketing

Jaga has over 17 years of experience in the field of Networking and Data Communications. He  was part of the Core Management Group of Dax Networks, India's largest networking brand and vendor of Routing, Switching, Cabling, VoIP products. As part of the Core Management Group at Dax, he was responsible in providing Technology Marketing Strategy and distribution for India. In this role he managed multiple product lines in Routing, Switching and Cabling spanning across the various industrial verticals. He has held various leadership positions in Product Management, Sourcing, and Supply Chain Management and was responsible in bringing into India a significant market share for Compex, Specialix, Perle, Eicon, and Nordx/CDT before launching "Dax" in India. He initiated the launch of routers under Dax brand and spearheaded Dax to be one of top 3 router vendors only next to Cisco and Juniper in just 3 years.

Jaga holds a First class Bachelors Degree in Science from Bangalore University and Certification on International Sales and Negotiation Skills from IIM- Bangalore India.

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