Ernest co-founded ONUG with Nick Lippis after realizing that the user community needed to take control of their own destiny and expedite the network transformation. At the time he was VP of the Internetwork Engineering organization at Fidelity Investments and under his leadership Fidelity hosted the first ONUG in Boston in February 2013.

A 12-year veteran of Fidelity, Ernest was responsible for leading the team that engineered world class network, security, and application delivery services driving value to the customer beyond infrastructure management. Ernest also managed the Network and Voice service portfolio as well as Global Network Operations LAN/WAN teams and has held various technical and leadership roles.

Tarun is CEO, Co-Founder at Gruve Inc, focused on Services and Software Development in AI / ML / Data.

Tarun was CEO, Co-Founder at Rahi Systems from 2012 to 2022, post acquisition with Wesco, he was SVP for Wesco Data Center Solutions. As CEO, Tarun was consistently nominated for 2021, 2022, 2023 as one of the Top 100 CEOs by Comparably. Rahi was bootstrapped, and at the time of acquisition by Wesco had a run rate revenue of more than $500M.

His experience includes 20+ years in the Data Center Industry. Introduced several new and emerging technologies to our customers including Data Center Infrastructure, Software Defined Networking or Infrastructure, Security, Networking and Management Products. He has invested in several startups at the seed stage, usually providing enough funding to bootstrap the startup to success. Tarun collaborates with startups to provide expertise, resources and access to a global network to take them to the next level.