An accomplished high-tech executive Atul Bhatnagar is responsible for Ixia's day-to-day operations and is intimately involved with strategy and long-term business planning. Atul brings more than 20 years of experience in the computing and communications industry. Most recently Atul led product development at a leading mobile to mobile convergence startup DiVitas Networks focusing on WiFi and Cellular seamless convergence. Prior to that Atul served as vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Data Networks Division of Nortel. At Nortel Atul's business unit was responsible for the design and marketing of a full range of Ethernet switches security solutions WLAN mobility solutions Metro Ethernet technologies and enterprise routers. Atul came to Nortel through its acquisition of Alteon Web Systems in October 2000 where he was vice president of Advanced WebSwitching Products creating next generation WebSwitches and security acceleration products. Prior to joining Alteon Web Systems Atul worked at Hewlett-Packard for almost 15 years where he held several general management assignments in North America and Asia. He led the creation of OSS and BSS solutions for Wireless Service Providers based on HP's OpenView Architecture. His team was also responsible for HP-UX networking services for all HP-UX based workstations and minicomputers.