Professional Experience
Faisal is an innovative, dynamic, and inspirational executive and entrepreneur
with extensive leadership experience. He has built global organizations, delivered innovative products, driven growth, improved efficiencies and gained market share, both in fast pace startup environment as well as Fortune 500 companies.
He has held CTO and senior leadership positions at Sleep Number corporation, a sleep and wellness technology company, GlobalLogic (Acquired by Hitachi), PLUMgrid (Acquired by VMware), Allot Communications, Ortiva Wireless (Acquired by Allot) and Wichorus (Acquired by Tellabs). Faisal began his career at Cisco Systems where he developed multiple families of network devices generating $5B in revenue.
Faisal is the Founder and President of TechCon SoCal and a member of NuFund, one of the largest and most active angel investment networks in the country. He is an advisor and investor in several startups and is a mentor/charter member at several organizations including CONNECT, OPEN and TIE. He received an MSEE from Purdue University and an MBA from Santa Clara University and holds 8 patents.