With the rise of the Internet in the 1990s,
most major corporations conducted a fair
amount of business using this tool, but
they did so without any security. While
many would meticulously shred confidential documents, they didn’t think twice
about sending confidential information
over the Web unsecured.
Seeing this, Syed Ali founded Cavium
Networks Inc. in November 2000 to
develop programmable network security processors that didn’t compromise
performance or communications security.
In 2001, despite the rough business
environment following the dot-com bust,
he secured his first round of funding and
successfully raised capital throughout
the following years. Ali also didn’t settle
on his product. Once he had addressed
the security issue, he turned his attention
to the embedded processor market and
brought out four separate product lines
to address low-end to high-end applications. Then, in May 2007, Cavium completed its initial public offering on the
NASDAQ.
Today, Cavium is one of the top-performing
companies among the 2007 IPOs. It’s also
the No. 1 vendor in the security processor
segment. Cavium has traditionally used a
common base of technology and added
vertical market segment features to
deliver strong value proposition. As this
chairman, president and CEO looks
toward the future, Ali hopes to continue
this strategy to address other growing
vertical segments in order to watch
Cavium continue to grow.
HOW TO REACH: Cavium Networks Inc., (650) 623-7000 or
www.caviumnetworks.com