Vab Goel

VAB GOEL founded Virtela in April 2000 and is chairman of the board and
CEO. Vab is also a partner with Norwest Venture Partners, a premier
venture capital firm focused on early stage investments in enterprise
software and communications technologies. Before joining Norwest, Vab
was a senior executive at Qwest. As vice president of IP network
engineering and advanced technology, he created and implemented the
“Qwest IP Network and Data Center Strategy”, designed to enable seamless
services with open standards and a strong customer focus. He also served
Qwest as vice president of emerging technologies, a group he founded. In
that position, he was responsible for identifying new networking
technologies. Prior to joining Qwest, Vab worked at Sprint, where he was
the principal architect for the Sprint Internet backbone and where he
contributed to the company’s IP and optical network strategy. He created
the optical network strategy that drove the world’s first IP over SONET
and the first IP over DWDM network.