Founders

Abhitesh Kastuar

Abhitesh brings over 25 years of executive leadership spanning high-performance networking and cloud services. He led the Cloud & IP Business Unit at Spirent Communications, served as a Director for AWS Edge Cloud, and headed AMD’s Collectives Communications Library.

Education: MS, University of Southern California.

Dhanaseker Kandhasamy

Dhanaseker has 30+ years of experience running large-scale engineering and customer enablement programs. He led Cisco’s Data Center Switching Proof of Concept Labs (supporting a $750M run rate) and AMD’s worldwide AI customer enablement for data center GPU clusters serving enterprises and NeoClouds.

Education: MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Omesh Sharma

Omesh brings four decades of finance expertise as CFO for companies such as Iron and Mind Valley, specializing in M&A and strategic investments, and helping take two companies public.

Education: MS, Northeastern University; MBA, Salem State University; MA, Economics.

Board & Advisors

Prem Jain

Prem Jain is a serial entrepreneur behind multiple successful networking startups including Crescendo Communications, Andiamo Systems, Nuova Systems, Insieme Networks, and Pensando Systems. His experience building and scaling market-leading infrastructure companies informs Phanos.AI’s growth and customer-focused strategy.

Education: MS, University of California, Davis.

Values

We innovate and operate with a passion for accelerating customers' deployments and Day 1 ROI.