The Kubisys management team has vast enterprise experience delivering solutions for Fortune 100, Fortune 500, and Fortune 1000 companies.

Vasken H. Setrakian, CEO and Chairman of the Board

With over 30 years experience in finance and banking at senior institutional levels, coupled with a long history of involvement in start-ups and early-stage ventures, Mr. Setrakian is well suited to lead Kubisys. Mr. Setrakian's strengths include: monitoring a company's conduct and performance, finding solutions to complex managerial and financial problems, adapting to change, and grooming talent. Over the years, he has assisted entrepreneurs in launching ventures covering a broad spectrum of products and services. He has been involved in formulating business strategy, marketing, P&L management, and capital acquisition in and outside the U.S. He is licensed and registered with FINRA as a general securities principal, financial and operations principal, and is the founder of SFG Securities, a U.S. broker/dealer specializing in hedge funds and private placements.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Setrakian served as managing director and head of global fixed income at Brown Brothers Harriman on Wall Street, managing billions of dollars for pension funds, charitable institutions, endowments, central banks, and public institutions.

Mr. Setrakian has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the American University of Beirut. He is fluent in English, French, Arabic, and Armenian.

Soubir Acharya, Founder and Director

Mr. Acharya is an innovator and designer, with a combined ability to lead technical teams and communicate product vision to end-users and channel resellers. With 20 years of software development/product marketing experience that includes an emphasis on original architecture and maximum end-user impact, he has interfaced extensively with customers and can speak the language of CIOs and CTOs. His expertise in distributed systems, including storage architectures and virtualization techniques, is recognized by industry experts. Prior to founding Kubisys, Mr. Acharya worked on next generation storage and data protection technology. Early in his career he created a Web development platform for business users, and developed distributed database solutions.

Mr. Acharya is well versed in intellectual property and has developed the same in current and former engagements. He has authored several articles on storage architecture. He is quick to identify business opportunities and has helped start-ups with engineering and go-to-market insight.

He received a BTech in Computer Science & Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1987.

Shinichi Urano, Ph.D., Chief Scientist

Prior to Kubisys, Dr. Urano worked for Syncsort, which he joined in 1997 in the technical services group of Syncsort’s enterprise backup product, Backup Express. He quickly absorbed expertise in IT, especially in networking and in the rapidly evolving field of storage. He distinguished himself as the principal problem solver, especially in those fields where expertise needed to be gained quickly. Dr. Urano has traveled to provide on-site solutions at several large customer data centers including ADP France and ABB Zurich, where he demonstrated his ability to showcase the product in solving customers’ problems.

In 1999, Dr. Urano joined the development group of Backup Express, where he leveraged his analytical skills and created a proprietary language to interface the core infrastructure of the product, enabling other developers to easily extend it in new ways. Through numerous projects, Dr. Urano's experience spans all phases of development, from requirements analysis and design to the actual implementation. Additionally, he has provided technical liaison services for customers and corporate partners, directly helping the product’s expansion in the market place.

Dr. Urano received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Texas A&M University in 1996.

Richard Magahiz, Ph.D.,
Director of Information Technology and Quality Assurance

Dr. Magahiz has a long record of hands-on experience with innovative hardware and software built to exacting specifications. With more than 15 years of experience in experimental particle physics, as a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University and at Union College, he has published extensively in his field and has been a member of numerous collaborations at CERN, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Jefferson Laboratory.

Dr. Magahiz was responsible for starting Syncsort's Backup Express technical services group soon after the product was launched, managing both on-call and on-site software support during a time when the customer base grew 20-fold. He later moved to the quality assurance group for Backup Express and quickly put into practice automated testing, software build validation, and a cross-platform deployment strategy.

Dr. Magahiz performed his Ph.D. research in experimental particle physics at Fermilab under the supervision of Nobel Prize-winning professor Henry W. Kendall of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.