Desh Deshpande

Gururaj Deshpande is the Chairman of Sycamore Networks, Tejas Networks, A123 Systems, Sandstone Capital and HiveFire. He is a founding investor and Board member of Airvana.

Prior to co-founding Sycamore Networks, Dr. Deshpande was founder and chairman of Cascade Communications Corp. 

Dr. Deshpande serves as a member of the MIT Corporation, and his generous donations have made possible MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation. 

Dr. Deshpande holds a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, an M.E. in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and Ph.D. in Data Communications from Queens University in Canada.

He and his wife are involved in several non-profit initiatives that include support for MIT, IIT, TiE,  Akshaya Patra Foundation, Public Health Foundation of India and the Social Entrepreneurship Sandbox in India.