Prior to joining Exablox, Charles was a Technical Director at 2Wire (acquired by Pace) during the development of U-Verse and various TeleCom related activities. He attended Carnegie Mellon University as a member of the Parallel Data Lab before venturing to the Silicon Valley. Ramesh Iyer Balan has been in the storage industry for over 15 years. He is currently VP of Engineering at Exablox, a clustered storage start-up based in Sunnyvale, CA.