Management Team
ABHIJIT PHANSE
Chief Executive OfficerAbhijit is the CEO of UnitedLayer, a premier North American Hybrid Cloud company. He is also the Managing Partner of Accelon Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, where he led the acquisition of UnitedLayer. He has 18 years of experience in starting, growing, and leading technology businesses. Previously, Abhijit co-founded Scintera (acquired by NYSE: INPHI and NASDAQ: MXIM) and was its CEO. Scintera is the leading provider of high performance signal processing semiconductors for network and wireless applications. Prior to starting Scintera, Abhijit held management positions at National Semiconductor where he led the development and commercialization of three generations of Ethernet Networking products.
Abhijit has an MS in Management from Stanford Business School, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has authored numerous publications and has over 50 US patents. He enjoys windsurfing, hiking, and playing the guitar. He and his wife have two young sons.
AARON HUGHES
Chief Network ArchitectAaron Hughes is a veteran technologist and entrepreneur who has served as our Chief Network Architect for more than 10 years. He also serves the Internet Engineering community in many elected and volunteer roles including serving as the current President of PeeringDB (3 years), current Chair of the Open-IX Board, former ARIN Board of Trustees (6 years), and PeeringDB Admin (10+ years). He also serves on several commercial advisory boards.
Prior to joining Terremark, Aaron led operations, sales engineering and planning, and design as VP of Operations at YellowBrix – a content distribution company based on proprietary technology which uses Artificial Intelligence, linguistic pattern analysis, and entity identification to contextually analyze information and deliver it to clients. Aaron has also held network and system architecture roles at Certainty Solutions, Quest Technologies, RCN, UltraNet, and Channel 1 Communications.
ANAS ALOUSI
Global Head - OperationsAnas joined UnitedLayer’s leadership team in April of 2018 as a Global Head of Technical Operations. He is an accomplished Information Technology Operations leader who invests in building high-performing, subject matter experts that deliver results to augment the services business. Anas is also responsible in developing and maintaining strategic vendor partnerships.
Anas has over 25 years of industry experience, overseeing business and technical operations disciplines for Information Technology infrastructure, Data Center, Security and Cloud Computing. He has held several other consulting and leadership roles at Novell, ONX, CentriLogic and Bell Canada/Q9.
JON WATERS
Director – FacilitiesJon has worked with UnitedLayer since 2003 and has been implemental in building the company from the ground up. Joining the company full time in 2009 as facilities engineer and achieving the position of director in 2014. With 25 years of experience in his field as a commercial and industrial electrician. Jon has gained comprehensive experience in the engineering and building of multiple Data Centers. Responsible for 100% uptime of all UnitedLayer Facilities. Managing a team of highly skilled and respected technicians in all aspects of day to day datacenter operations.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BV JAGADEESH
BV Jagadeesh is Managing Partner at KAAJ Ventures. He has successfully invested and guided companies such as Nutanix (IPO), Yodlee (IPO), Arkin (acqd: VMWare), Elastic Box (acqd: Century Link), Net Magic Solutions (acqd: NTT), Ocarina Networks (acqd: Dell) and Ankeena (acqd: Juniper) to name a few. Before founding KAAJ, BV Jagadeesh served as a founding investor and CEO of NetScaler. NetScaler pioneered the concept of Application Delivery and was successfully sold to Citrix for $325M and served as Group VP and GM for Citrix's Application Networking division. Prior to NetScaler, he co-founded and served as CTO of Exodus communications in 1993 that pioneered the concept of Internet data centers. He was instrumental in the successful IPO of Exodus in 1998. Currently Jagadeesh is an active investor and serves on the board of several Silicon Valley StartUPs. He is also an adjunct faculty at the Leavey School of Business, SCU. Jagadeesh is also very actively involved with several nonprofits for the betterment of the world such as UVCE Foundation - providing scholarships to deserving students, One School At A Time - Constructs School buildings for the under privileged, Akshaya Patra - providing mid-day meals to 1.6 Million children every day.
DAN PETERSON
Mr. Peterson has more than thirty years’ experience starting, capitalizing, managing, and advising high-growth companies in a variety of industries, including high-tech, real estate, investment management, and tech-enabled services. Early in his career, he served as a partner in the world’s largest private real estate development and management company. Mr. Peterson has served as founder and/or partner in venture, private equity, search, and real estate investment funds which now manage more than $2.0 billion. He has been a principal in scores of transactions and financings worth $billions. He currently serves at both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations, including Fifth Partners. Mr. Peterson graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in economics from Brigham Young University, and received his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He is the father of five children and has two grandsons. He resides in Millcreek, Utah with his wife of nearly thirty-five years.
ABHIJIT PHANSE
Abhijit is the CEO of UnitedLayer, a premier North American Hybrid Cloud company. He is also the Managing Partner of Accelon Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, where he led the acquisition of UnitedLayer. He has 18 years of experience in starting, growing, and leading technology businesses. Previously, Abhijit co-founded Scintera (acquired by NYSE: INPHI and NASDAQ: MXIM) and was its CEO. Scintera is the leading provider of high performance signal processing semiconductors for network and wireless applications. Prior to starting Scintera, Abhijit held management positions at National Semiconductor where he led the development and commercialization of three generations of Ethernet Networking products.
Abhijit has an MS in Management from Stanford Business School, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida, and a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He has authored numerous publications and has over 50 US patents. He enjoys wind surfing, hiking, and playing the guitar. He and his wife has two young sons.