Dr. Subhash C. Agrawal 

Dr. Agrawal is an accomplished software engineer, scientist, inventor, leader, and engineering executive.  He has led many small and large teams to create commercially successful, enterprise-class software products.  He is currently a Technology and Engineering Management Consultant for several venture firms and technology companies and as CEO of S-Wave Corp, he is focusing on increasing ATM profitability.  He was Vice President of Engineering for PATROL enterprise system management products at BMC Software.  During his engineering leadership, annual revenue for PATROL grew to $375M.

Dr. Agrawal began his career at BGS Systems, Inc. and created BEST/1, a leading capacity management solution for distributed systems. BGS Systems was acquired by BMC Software for $300M. Dr. Agrawal also led software engineering at Axiowave Networks as Co-founder and VP of Software and at Cylant, Inc.  as CTO and VP of Engineering.

Dr. Agrawal received his B.E. (honors) in Electronic Engineering from BITS in Pilani, India, M.S. in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University. BITS awarded him the University Gold Medal for being First in the Class of 1979. The MIT Press published his Ph.D. thesis as a Distinguished Dissertation.  Purdue University honored him as a Distinguished Alumni. He has received the Best Paper Award at several conferences. He has served on Editorial Review Boards of several conferences and has been an active member of several industry groups including IEEE, ACM and CMG. He holds 4 patents and has 3 pending.