H.K. Desai is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of QLogic Corporation, headquartered in Aliso Viejo, California. Founded in 1994 and now a member of the prestigious S&P 500 Index, QLogic is a leading supplier of high-performance networking solutions. The company produces the controller chips, host adapters and fabric switches that are the backbone of storage and HPC networks for Global 2000 corporations. QLogic delivers a broad and diverse portfolio of products that includes adapters, switches and management tools for a variety of network topologies including Fibre Channel, iSCSI and InfiniBand. QLogic products power solutions from leading companies like Cisco, Dell, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NEC, Network Appliance and Sun Microsystems, and are delivered to small-to-medium businesses and large enterprises around the world by a global community of OEM and channel partners. Desai was appointed President, CTO and interim CEO of the company in August 1995. In January of 1996, he was appointed CEO and in May of 1999 he became Chairman of the Board.

Largely credited with the company’s increased growth and earnings, Desai has focused QLogic resources into developing new markets and customers. Under Desai’s leadership, QLogic has led the I/O industry in innovative technology development,diversified into new markets, and driven additional growth through acquisition. Since December, 2000 QLogic has consistently made the list of Forbes’ Best 200 Small Companies.