Rehan Jalil

Who is Rehan Jalil?

Rehan Jalil has over 15 years of technical managementand sales experience in

telecommunications, networking and multi-core processors. Prior to

WiChorus he was the chief architect for Aperto Networks and played

diverse leadership roles in technology and sales. Aperto was a key

contributor of technology that became part of IEEE802.16 and was a

founding member of WiMAX Forum. He developed multiple generations of

broadband wireless silicon, carrier-grade base stations and terminals,

and alsobrought in multi-million dollar orders. Thesesystems are

used to deploy networks globally, in over 75 countries, by more than

400 operators. At Sun Microsystems, he helped develop one of the

industry’s earliest advanced multi-core multithreaded processor for

throughput computing and graphics applications. Part of the technology

is now used in Sun’s 32-threaded Niagra Rock processors. At

Siemens, he managed projects related to system-level design and

implementation. He also contributes to social entrepreneurship

projects and is a charter member of OPEN Silicon Valley, was the founder of MentorPlatform and is on board of Koshish. He has over

18 patents pending and graduated with an MSEE from Purdue University.