Prakash Panjwani currently serves as Vice President and General Manager of the Rights Management Business Unit for SafeNet. In this role, he is leading sales, marketing, and engineering for software protection, license management and digital rights management portfolio of products. Mr. Panjwani joined SafeNet as Vice President in World Wide Embedded Sales in September of 2002, responsible for SafeNet's sales to leading OEM companies around the globe.

Mr. Panjwani is a highly experienced sales and marketing executive with a strong track-record in the security market. His experience and position in selling to OEM channels has allowed SafeNet to accelerate its standing in the growing embedded security market. Mr. Panjwani brings over 15 years of experience in software, security and telecom industries.

Prior to joining SafeNet, Mr. Panjwani spent over four years at Certicom Corporation in various management positions, including Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development. Previously, he also served at Motorola Inc. and Telcordia (formerly Bellcore). With an in-depth knowledge of the information security industry, including software and hardware solutions, security protocols, VPNs, cryptography and PKI , he often speaks at conferences and seminars focused in wireless and information security.

Mr. Panjwani holds a Masters degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Information Networking and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.