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Babak Salimi has more than 18 years of domain expertise in the Enterprise IT, security and network industry. Babak and his team were pioneers of Endpoint Security, On-Demand Security and Network Access Control markets by launching Sygate Endpoint Protection in the summer of 2000, followed by Sygate On-Demand and Network Access Control security solutions. Babak's efforts in the areas of corporate, product and partner strategy led to Sygate's successful acquisition by Symantec. In 2004 Babak led the creation of an open industry standards group known as Trusted Network Connect (a working group of Trusted Computing Group). Initial group participation of 20 vendors quickly grew to over 60+ industry leading vendors such as Avaya, HP, IBM, Intel, iPass, Juniper, and Symantec. Prior to Sygate Babak held various management and development positions with large multi-national organizations including Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT), Bell Northern Research and IBM (NYSE:IBM). Babak holds a Masters degree in Telecommunications Technology Management and a Bachelors in Engineering with honors from McGill University. | 