Rajiv Khemani Announced as Cavium Network's New COO

A leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products, Cavium Networks recently announced the appointment of Rajiv Khemani, for the position as the company’s new Chief Operating Officer.

In a press release, the Mountain View, California based company announced that the appointment of Khemani, who previously served as Vice President and General Manager of Cavium's Networking and Communications Division, is effective immediately.  In his new role as the company’s COO,  Khemani will oversee the Networking and Communications Division, and the Broadband and Consumer Division, as well as manufacturing operations. He will continue to report to Syed Ali, Chairman, President, and CEO, said the sources at the company.

Cavium Networks (News - Alert) offers a broad portfolio of integrated, software compatible processors ranging in performance from 10 Mbps to 40 Gbps that enable secure, intelligent functionality in enterprise, data-center, broadband/consumer, and access and service provider equipment. As the company continues to expand in these segments, the company feels the need for a leadership that can take the organization to a new height, by utilizing its world class engineering talent pool.

“We continue to expand our market footprint across enterprise, data-center, service provider and consumer segments, with an increasing breadth of intellectual property and product lines and we need to appropriately scale the organization. Going forward, the ability to efficiently utilize our world-class engineering talent across divisions will be critical as we scale Cavium to new heights. Rajiv's successful business track record, breadth of management roles and strategic acumen position him perfectly for the COO role,” President and CEO of Cavium Networks, Syed Ali (News - Alert) said in a statement.

Rajiv Khemani joined Cavium Networks in 2003, and has served in various executive roles in marketing, sales and business unit management. He was part of the executive team that led Cavium from an early startup stage, through achieving profitability and an initial public offering, to a leading high growth semiconductor company. Prior to joining Cavium, he worked at Intel (News - Alert) Corporation for 5 years, where he was most recently general manager of Intel's network processor business, and led the organization to achieve the number 1 market share. He also worked at NetApp and Sun Microsystems (News - Alert) across storage and server product lines in engineering, marketing, and management roles. He received a bachelor degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, an MS in Computer Science from New York University, and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

"I am truly honored to take on this role and look forward to working with the entire Cavium team to increase synergies across our groups and continue to scale our product development and customer engagement & support capabilities," said Rajiv Khemani, who has been with the company from an early startup stage.

In a separate statement, Cavium Networks announced that it is has signed a definitive agreement to acquire China-based privately held Celestial Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Beijing, China with centers in Shenzhen and Shanghai. Celestial is a fast growing provider of ARM-based system-on-a-chip (SoC) processor solutions for a range of digital media applications.

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