Rahul Aggarwal co-founded Arktan to address challenges that brands have in increasing real-time engagement and conversation with their audience on their Web properties. Rahul has steered Arktan as it has pioneered and deployed technology that enables UMG, NBC, Reuters and other brands to bring real-time Social Web content and conversation to their sites.

Rahul's prior experience includes innovating Internet Routing technologies and taking them all the way from inception to deployment in several of the largest Service Providers in the world. In his role as Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks he drove Internet routing, mobile, VPN and data center related technologies and standards across the industry.

He is the author of several Internet drafts and RFCs, holds many patents and is a sought after speaker in conferences. He received his B.S. from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee and M.S. from University of Minnesota.