March 10, 2005

EETimes Names Aruba Networks Emerging Company Of The Year

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EETimes 2005 Emerging Company of the Year
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 10, 2005 - At its Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards, CMP Media's EE Times has recognized Aruba Networks (Aruba) as its 2005 Emerging Company of the Year. The honor was presented at the first annual ACE awards gala as part of the largest electronic systems design event in North America, the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco.

"We're ecstatic to be recognized by what is arguably the world's leading publication for engineers," said Keerti Melkote, co-founder and vice president of Product Management for Aruba. "This award acknowledges the innovative efforts our own engineers have made over the last two years in defining the next step in enterprise infrastructure,"

EE Times ACE awards were created to recognize the people, companies and products that show leadership in the electronics industry and honor those who are leading the way as the real innovators of technology. In the first year of the EE Times ACE awards, CMP received over 340 nominations for companies and individuals who wanted to take part in the one-of-a-kind opportunity to acknowledge advances and innovations in technology today.

The ACE awards Review Committee, comprised of a who's who of technology, evaluated finalists and bestowed one Excellence Recognition Award in each of seven categories.

The Review Committee included:

  • Gordon Bell from Microsoft
  • Jeff Bier from Berkeley Design Technology
  • Larry Boucher from Alacritech
  • Erach Desai from America Technology Research
  • Jim Feldhan from Semico
  • Gene Frantz from Texas Instruments
  • John Hennessy from Stanford University
  • Lucio Lanza from Lanza Tech Ventures
  • John Mashey from TechViser
  • Regis McKenna from Regis McKenna, Inc.
  • Teresa Meng from Stanford University
  • Girish Mhatre from Target Group
  • Richard Newton from UC Berkeley
  • Greg Papadopoulos from Sun Microsystems
  • George Scalise from the Semiconductor Industry Association
  • Neaveed Sherwani from Open Silicon
  • Nick Tredennick from the Gilder Technology Report
  • Leslie Vadasz, former vice president at Intel Corporation

EE Times is the premier technology and business newsweekly serving the information needs of over 150,000 engineers and technical manager in North America. Together with EE Times Asia and China editions, EE Times print editions reach more than 200,000 electronics professionals around the world.

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