Anil Khatod Managing Director, Argonaut Private Equity Anil Khatod is Managing Director of Argonaut Private Equity, a global venture capital and buyout firm dedicated to financing and growing emerging market leaders. Argonaut has more than $5 billion under management. Anil is also the founding partner of the firm's investment practice in India, where he built a local team, developed investment strategy and led several investments in infrastructure, technology, retail, financial services, and consumer goods companies. From 2007 to 2010, five of Anil's portfolio companies went public in India - Koutons Retail, Edelweiss Capital, Zylog Systems, KPR Mills and Shriram EPC. In addition to India, Anil also continues to invest in the US and Israel. Anil currently serves on the boards of more than a dozen companies including OmniGuide Inc., Achronix Semiconductor, Memjet Technology, Siklu Networks, ZikBit Semiconductor, Koutons Retail India Ltd, VKL Spices, Argonaut Investments and VentureEast in the US, Ireland, Israel, India and Mauritius. Anil joined Nortel Networks in 1982 where during the rapid growth phase of the company he served as executive vice president and group president of the company. During his years at Nortel, he led several business groups including being President of Optical Networks, Wireless Networks and Data business groups. Anil also served as the Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer of the company leading several global functions including product management, network solutions groups, corporate marketing & strategy, government relations and M&A. In this role, Anil led or participated in more than a dozen acquisitions including Alteon Web Systems and Shasta Networks. He was also responsible for the corporate venture fund which included investments in companies such as Research in Motion and Juniper Networks. In 2001, Anil joined Atlas Venture as a venture partner and just prior to joining Argonaut, Anil was the CEO of AirDefense (acquired by Motorola), a market leader in wireless network security with more than 800 enterprise customers globally. Anil started his career in 1980 by co-founding a venture backed liquid crystal display company in Sunnyvale, California which successfully exited in 1982. Anil has a bachelor's and master's degree in business administration from the University of Rajasthan, India, and he is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. Anil is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Anil Khatod, Managing Director, Argonaut Private Equity Anil Khatod is a managing director at Argonaut Private Equity, a diversified global venture capital and private equity fund with more than $3.5 billion under management. Anil works closely with entrepreneurs using his extensive operational experience to build industry leading companies in sectors including emerging technology, life sciences, alternative energy, financial services and consumer goods. He sits on the boards of nine companies in the US, Israel and India. In 1980, Anil co-founded a venture backed liquid crystal display company based in Sunnyvale, California which was acquired in 1982. He subsequently joined Nortel Networks where he served in various senior executive roles including VP of Marketing & Sales, VP of Operations, Division President of Optical Networks, Group President of Internet Solutions and Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer of the company. Anil is widely recognized as the driver of Nortel's success in the Optical business, where he led the business and operations to a record ten-fold growth in four years reaching to $10 billion in revenue. Anil led or participated in more than a dozen acquisitions at Nortel including Alteon Web Systems and Shasta Networks. He was also responsible for the corporate venture fund. In 2001, Anil joined Atlas Venture as a venture partner and just prior to joining Argonaut, Anil was the CEO of AirDefense (acquired by Motorola) a market leader in wireless network security with more than 800 enterprise customers globally. Anil has an undergraduate and masters' degree in business administration from the University of Rajasthan, India and he is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Anil Khatod, Argonaut Private Equity Anil Khatod is a Managing Director at Argonaut Private Equity, a diversified global private equity fund with more than $2 billion under management. Anil has extensive experience spanning over 26 years in leading large and small companies. In 1980, he co-founded and subsequently sold a liquid crystal display and semiconductor company in Sunnyvale, California. Anil joined Nortel Networks in 1982 where he served in various executive roles including VP of Marketing & Sales, VP of Operations, Division President of Optical Internet, Group President of Internet Solutions and Chief Marketing & Strategy Officer. In 2001, Anil joined Atlas Venture as a venture partner. Most recently, Anil was the CEO of AirDefense, a market leader in wireless network security serving more than 500 major enterprise customers globally.

"AirDefense is proud to offer the most advanced wireless end-point security solutions for mobile workers and other laptop users," said Anil Khatod, president and CEO of AirDefense, ranked among Red Herring's Top 100 Private Companies in North America.

AirDefense President and CEO Anil Khatod to Speak at E-Gov Institute's Wireless/RFID ConferenceAirDefense President and CEO Anil Khatod to Speak at E-Gov Institute's Wireless/RFID ConferenceAirDefense President and CEO Anil Khatod to Speak at E-Gov Institute's Wireless/RFID ConferenceATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 2005--AirDefense, the leader in anywhere, anytime wireless security, today announced that President and CEO Anil Khatod will speak at the E-Gov Institute's Wireless/RFID Conference on Wednesday, March 2 from 2:45 p.m. to 4 p.m.The conference is being held at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, DC. Khatod will join a panel of distinguished executives in a discussion entitled "Wireless LAN Security."Khatod will discuss the growing risks enterprises face when deploying wireless networks and the steps organizations can take to mitigate those risks.Khatod will offer solutions for how to avoid the high false positive rate associated with wireless intrusion detection systems as well as how to secure the mobile worker, including protection from Evil Twin or access point phishing.AirDefense is driving protection against Evil Twin and other wireless risks with the announcement of its AirDefense Personal Lite 1.0 product, a software agent that resides on the consumer's laptop and monitors for wireless risks.AirDefense Personal Lite is available to consumers for free at http://www.airdefense.net/personal . Anil Khatod is a telecommunications and networking veteran and former partner at the venture capital firm Atlas Venture.He is widely known for his achievements as a senior executive with Nortel Networks where in his final position he served as chief marketing and strategy officer.Under Khatod's leadership, Nortel's optical business grew to over $10 billion in revenue.As group president of global Internet solutions, Khatod shared P&L responsibility for businesses with over $25 billion in revenue including optical Internet, wireless Internet, carrier data and VoIP.Khatod has a bachelor's degree in business administration and an MBA from India.He is also a chartered accountant.