When you are obsessed with solving customer problems and working backwards, you develop solutions that seem impossible. Back in 1998, I founded a startup that uses AI to fine-tune networks to prevent problems before they happen. Another startup that I founded focused on building secured networking platforms. These, and many years of expertise and experience, laid the foundation for building the Nile.Throughout my career, I have built networking, security, and application software from ground up. I have helped take hardware and software products from concept to generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. I have led the formation of a wide variety of strategic partnerships - with startups, for investments and acquisitions, and with large companies, for joint solutions and GTM. I have an acute interest in M&A. I led an acquisition and integration of a security analytics company.I have forty patents in networking, security, and operations; co-authored optical and networking industry standards; and published research papers in AI that are part of the Stanford and USC curricula.