Bhaskar

Ragula Bhaskar is co-founder, president and chief executive officer of FatPipe Networks Inc.

The Salt Lake City, Utah-based company specializes in advanced wide area data networks. Bhaskar is a specialist in mining engineering.

After serving on the faculty of Pennsylvania State University, where he earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in mining engineering and business administration, Bhaskar accepted a teaching position at the University of Utah. Soon after moving west, however, the native of Chennai, India, sought other avenues for his ideas. In 1994, he found this avenue with FatPipe.

Under Bhaskar’s leadership, FatPipe’s growth rate was more than 44 percent in 2004 and 33 percent in 2005. In 2006, his firm was ranked 381 in the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 survey of the quickest growing companies in North America and 64th in Mountain West Venture Group’s survey of the top-100 fastest growing Utah companies.  FatPipe’s growth is also reflected in its workforce, which has blossomed from 10 employees to more than 100 since its inception. In addition to its Salt Lake City headquarters, FatPipe also has offices in Phoenix and Chennai, India.

FatPipe’s products have proven popular with a wide range of private and public entities and includes a customer list ranging from Jelly Belly, makers of the famous gourmet jelly bean candies, to Pier I Imports, the Marriott and Hilton hotel chains, the U.S. Supreme Court, the FBI and nonprofits such as the American Diabetes Association and Goodwill.

In an every day setting, Bhaskar cites how FatPipe, by ensuring the redundancy of multiple data connections, helps to make sure that, for example, consumers can use their VISA credit cards for purchases at Home Depot. He indicates that FatPipe’s effectiveness — and success — has been realized by “our proven ability to provide clients with access to data that also provides full transmission security and super bandwith capability.”

Bhaskar has further helped to ensure both product capability and innovation by securing patents for tools, techniques and systems that are implemented on a regular basis throughout his company.

Much of FatPipe’s success can be traced to Bhaskar’s own personal and professional philosophies.  For instance, he describes his leadership style as “very direct, very process driven. I strive to be clear about our processes and procedures.”