Rajeev Khanolkar co-founded NetCom Systems with Niten Ved. Rajeev brings over 25 years of experience in technology and IT management to his role as Co-Founder and President. His strong background in management, engineering and mathematics as well as his entrepreneurial spirit has helped position NetCom Systems as a premier professional services company.
While at NetCom Systems, Rajeev pioneered the Security Information Management space (SIM) in the late 90's and co-founded netForensics, Inc (Spin-off from NetCom Systems in 1999) a security information management software company. Rajeev served as CEO of netForensics from May 1999 to Sept 2005 after which he returned to NetCom Systems as President.
While at netForensics he was responsible for leading the company from inception to a global leader in Internet security information management. He was instrumental in raising $32m in venture funding for netForensics during the growth phase of the company. Under his leadership the company won many technology and business leadership awards between 2001 and 2005. netForensics was listed as the fastest growing technology company in NJ by Deloitte in 2004 and again as one of the top 10 fastest growing companies 2005. Rajeev was instrumental in the setting up of many key business relationships on a worldwide basis including Cisco (OEM), HP and Deloitte.
Rajeev's extensive network engineering, enterprise management and security background has helped NetCom Systems achieve strategic partnerships with global organizations like Computer Associates, Cisco Systems and IBM. In his role as Co-Founder and President, Rajeev provides the strategic vision and focus for NetCom Systems growth.
Prior to NetCom Systems, Rajeev held a number of senior management positions in organizations like Xecute Information Systems, Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and General Electric Corporation Turbine Generators. He holds a Master of Science in Thermodynamics from the University of Birmingham, Great Britain and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. Khanolkar is also a Charter Engineer Member of Institute of Engineering, UK.
