B.J. Arun Chairman & CEO

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 every 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).

Douglas J. Bone President & COO

Douglas Bone brings a decade of experience in the Linux server business to California Digital. He co-founded VA Linux Systems (NASDAQ: LNUX) in 1994, the world's first Linux server company. Bone served in a variety of sales, marketing, and operations management roles during that company's meteoric rise and IPO.

Bone brings extensive customer, market, and Linux knowledge to California Digital, particularly in the areas of enterprise Linux migration and technical computing. His team has garnered major Linux contracts in the financial services, bioinformatics, Internet infrastructure, and government research verticals. He is an expert on understanding how Linux-based technology can supplant proprietary Unix-based solutions within Fortune 500 companies.

Bone attended Stanford University where he got his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, and spent the next five years pursuing a doctoral degree before leaving to work full time on VA Linux.

Bone is a recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation for higher studies. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Clemson University and has worked for NCR and DuPont Electronics.

Srinidhi Varadarajan Chief Technical Officer

Srinidhi Varadarajan received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York, Stony Brook in 2000. He presently serves as the Director of the Terascale Computing Facility at Virginia Tech and as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Varadarajan is the recipient of a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the Egg Factory Technology Innovation award and a Faculty Fellow award from the College of Engineering, Virginia Tech.

Dr. Varadarajan's research is focused on transparent fault tolerance for massively parallel supercomputers, scalable network emulation, compiler directed strategies for flexible data sharing models and routing algorithms for backbone IP networks. In the area of transparent fault tolerance his work concentrates on developing incremental checkpointing, recovery and migration algorithms. His research in network emulation is focused on building a distributed system that can scale to emulate hundreds of thousands of virtual nodes. This work involves research on several areas, including compiler directed mechanisms for transparent generation of reentrant code from non-reentrant sources, automatic checkpointing and recovery, code migration, dynamic load balancing and 3D environments for network traffic visualization. In the area of routing algorithms, he is exploring the use of AI techniques such as reinforced learning for use in a probabilistic framework for multi-path routing protocols.

Dr. Varadarajan is the architect of System X, the third fastest supercomputer in the world located at the Terascale Computing Facility at Virginia Tech.