Sundar Iyer is currently a technical leader in the Data Center Business Unit at Cisco Systems. He defended his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford in 2003. In the fall of 2003, Sundar co-founded Nemo Systems, where he was the CTO and principal architect. Nemo (acquired by Cisco in 2005), specialized in memory algorithms for networking sub-systems. In 1999, Sundar was a founding member and senior systems architect at SwitchOn Networks (acquired by PMC-Sierra in 2000) where he helped develop algorithms for deep packet classification. Sundar has a Master's degree from Stanford in 2000, and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Bombay in 1998.