Parag Mehta has over 20 years of entrepreneurial and professional experience in the high-tech industry. He has been associated with software, ASIC embedded product engineering services and storage/networking in business development, sales, product marketing, and executive management functions in India and USA.

As Managing Director of QLogic India, Mehta has been instrumental in establishing the R&D center in Pune as well as initiating various sales functions for APAC from the India center. He has been in this role since January 2008, prior to which he led the company’s product marketing team based out of the US headquarters.

Mehta is actively contributing to the ecosystem. He is currently the Vice President of the Software Exporter’s Association of Pune, an Executive Council member of IESA, and a member of National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) and Indian Angle Networks.

Mehta holds a BS and MS in computer science from the University of Louisiana. He has completed an executive management program at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).