Kumar Malavalli serves as Co-Founder & Executive Chairman at Glassbeam. He also serves as Chairman at C3DNA. Malavalli serves as a Director at VKRM. Malavalli is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Chairman at Glassbeam. He is a co-author and driving force behind Fibre Channel, an evolutionary technology that enabled the development of production-class storage area networks (SAN's). Co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer of Brocade Communications