Preetish Nijhawan

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Preetish Nijhawan is an entrepreneur known for co-founding internet company Akamai Technologies in 1998.

Preetish now works for a group of companies (JME Software, Scalable Software and Neon Enterprise Software) as CFO. Prior to this, Preetish worked with NeoEdge Networks in Palo Alto, California as Vice President of Strategic Alliances where he led the development of the company's most important partnerships and distribution relationships.

Before joining NeoEdge, Preetish was a Vice President at BMC Software and prior to that he was a co-founder and Vice President at iVita Corporation, and was a consultant for McKinsey & Company. Earlier in his career he also spent 6 years at Intel Corporation in engineering and management roles. Preetish has a Bachelors Degree from BITS, Pilani, a Masters Degree from the University of Southern California and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Side note: Co-Founder of Sugar Land Local Coffee shop "The Coffee Groundz." PS: New location in Midtown opened in June 2007. He has two sons and a wife.