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Avinash Agrawal Appointed as Managing Director of Narus' India Operation
Seasoned Executive Brings More Than 30 Years' Experience to Narus
| Source: Narus
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA and BANGALORE, INDIA--(Marketwire - November 18, 2008) - Narus, Inc., a
leader in real-time traffic intelligence, announced today that Avinash
Agrawal has been appointed to lead Narus' India operation as managing
director. Agrawal brings more than 30 years of experience in global
software and management services. In this role, he will be responsible for
Narus' India-wide operation and directly overseeing Narus' R&D effort based
in India. Narus is also announcing the grand opening of its New Delhi
office. The most recent addition to Narus' worldwide offices, the New Delhi
site will serve as Narus' Asia Pacific regional headquarters with sales,
support and professional services represented. Its grand opening
underscores Narus' continued and steady reach into the global market and
commitment to the Indian market.
Agrawal's vast experience has centered on building software companies in
India and scaling them to deliver high-quality products and solutions for a
worldwide customer base. Before joining Narus, Agrawal was president and
CEO of Merge Healthcare, Inc.'s operations in India, focusing on software
development, vendor management and sales of Merge solutions in India. Prior
to joining Merge, Agrawal served as managing director at Paragon Solutions,
later acquired by First Consulting Group. There, he focused on software
development and eventually grew the company to more than 500 employees.
"Avinash's exceptional experience in developing and leading software
companies in India will prove very valuable to Narus as we strengthen our
foothold in real-time traffic intelligence around the world. I look forward
to working with Avinash and welcome the experience he brings to our
business," said Yogi Mistry, senior vice president of worldwide engineering
for Narus. "Narus is synonymous with unmatched, real-time traffic
intelligence," said Agrawal. "I am excited to join the strong Narus'
management team and to leverage my own experience to bring continued
success to the company."
Agrawal holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Delhi in India, and
a post-graduate degree in Operation Research from the University of British
Columbia in Vancouver.
With overseas offices already operating in Bangalore, as well as London,
France, Egypt, Dubai, Pakistan, Japan and Korea, Narus continues to provide
leadership in the worldwide traffic intelligence market, further
underscoring the growing need for full IP traffic visibility in today's
global telecommunications and government markets.
About Narus
Narus is the leader in real-time traffic intelligence for large IP
networks, and is the only company that provides security, intercept and
traffic management solutions within a single, flexible system. With Narus,
service providers, governments and large enterprises around the world can
immediately detect, analyze, mitigate and target any unwanted, unwarranted
or malicious traffic. Narus provides its customers with complete, real-time
insight into all of their IP traffic from the network to the applications.
Combined with the ability to enable numerous actions, Narus customers have
the ability to take the most appropriate actions quickly.
Narus' system protects and manages the largest IP networks around the world
including AT&T, KT (Korea), KDDI (Japan), Telecom Egypt, Reliance (India),
Saudi Telecom, US Cellular and Pakistan Telecom Authority. Narus is
headquartered in Mountain View, California with regional offices around the
world. For more information, please visit www.narus.com.