Founder and Chairman of the Board

Dr. Farnam Jahanian is co-founder and chairman of Arbor Networks, Inc. As chairman, he is responsible for setting strategic direction of the company, leading corporate development and partnership discussions and working with strategic investors on the board. Dr. Jahanian brings 20 years of experience specializing in distributed computing, network security and Internet protocols, architectures and applications.

Dr. Jahanian was the 2005 recipient of the Governor's University Award for Commercialization Excellence, which was awarded for Internet security research that formed the basis for Arbor Networks' technology. He also was the recipient of the University of Michigan College Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and he was named Eta Kappa Nu Professor of the Year.

Dr. Jahanian is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the University of Michigan. Earlier in his career, Jahanian worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He serves on the Board of Directors for Ann Arbor IT Zone and is also on the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Time-Critical Computing Systems. The author of over 80 published research papers, Dr. Jahanian has served on dozens of government advisory boards and industry panels. He holds a master's degree and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin.