B.J. Arun brings over 20 years of leadership experience in the Enterprise Technical Computing industry. Arun co-founded California Digital in San Jose, CA in 1994 and has run the company profitably ever since. He set up India's first Linux only company when he set up California Digital (India) Private limited as a wholly owned subsidiary in 1999.

Arun orchestrated the acquisition of the assets of VA Linux Systems (Nasdaq: LNUX) in 2001 which catapulted California Digital into a market leadership position in the space of Linux based High Performance Computing and related software services.

Prior to California Digital, Arun served in Product Marketing for Micronics Computers (Nasdaq: MCRN), a leader in the design and manufacture of high end X86 based motherboards. He was responsible for defining the technology road map for the company's industry leading designs of server and desktop products.

Arun is a charter member of TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship.

Arun currently sits on the Board of Advisors for Intel Corporation's Premier Providers.

Arun holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Bangalore University (India).

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