Faraj Aalaei

Biography

Faraj Aalaei has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since January 2009. He became Chairman of the board of directors in October 2016. Prior to joining Aquantia, Mr. Aalaei served as Chief Executive Officer and was one of the founders of Centillium Communications, a semiconductor solutions company. Mr. Aalaei served as the Vice President, Marketing and Business Development from Centillium’s inception in February 1997 until January 2000, when he was named Chief Executive Officer. Prior to co-founding Centillium, Mr. Aalaei was Director of Access Products at Fujitsu Network Communications, a designer and manufacturer of fiber-optic transmission and broadband switching platforms, from October 1993 to February 1997. Prior to Fujitsu, Mr. Aalaei spent nine years at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a design engineer in various capacities. Mr. Aalaei received a Doctor of Engineering and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology from Wentworth Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and an M.B.A. from the University of New Hampshire. Mr. Aalaei holds three U.S. patents.

Research Interest

Network Communications