NSX Portfolio - $2B ARR of Cloud, Advanced Security, Network Virtualization/IaaS, Avi ALB, Analytics, Generative AI. Team also takes responsibility for high-touch Account Based Marketing (ABM) targeting strategic accounts globally.(Acquired by Broadcom in Nov 2023)

Security, privacy and compliance for a "data-first" world.

Advisor - Cloudbrink (www.cloudbrink.io) - 2022 to presentAdvisory Board Member - Scrut Automation (www.scrut.io) - 2022 to presentMentor - Newchip Accelerator (Feb 2022 - May 2023)Advisor - Optio3 - 2021- Sept 2022 (acquired by CoreStack)Advisory Board Member - Cavirin - 2017-2018Advisory Board Member - Ushur (www.ushur.com) - 2016 to presenthttps://ushur.com/company/news-press/ushur-announces-strategic-advisory-board/Advisor - True Lark (www.truelark.com) - 2016 to presentAdvisory Board Member - The Fabric - 2016-2023Co-creation, funding and acceleration of early-stage startups focused on next-generation cloud infrastructure, security and IoT. Portfolio companies: Velocloud (acquired by VMware), Perspica (acquired by Cisco), Spanugo (acquired by IBM), Appcito (acquired by A10), IoTium (acquired by View, Inc.), OpsCruise, CloudBrinkCo-creation, funding and acceleration of early-stage startups focused on next-generation cloud infrastructure, security and IoT. Portfolio companies: Velocloud (acquired by VMware), Perspica (acquired by Cisco), Spanugo (acquired by IBM), Appcito (acquired by A10), IoTium (acquired by View, Inc.), OpsCruise, CloudBrink

Aryaka is an industry pioneer for Unified SASE, delivering network and security as-a-service. As CMO, I led all aspects of marketing, product management, portfolio strategy, growth/demand gen and technology partnerships working with a truly world-class team. During this time, I re-built the marketing and product management teams including hiring VPs/SVPs refreshed messaging and positioning, websites and GTM and helping double revenue to move well past $100M ARR in a 3-year period.

Mentoring chosen startups across multiple cohorts on various aspects of company building, go-to-market and scaling strategy.

Quali is an innovator in infrastructure automation, delivering environments as-a-service (EaaS) for DevOps etc. with on-premises and SaaS offerings. Customers include Enterprises, Service Providers and public cloud providers among the Fortune 500 and the Global 100. In the role of CMO, I was responsible for all aspects marketing and demand generation, partnership & strategic alliances, sales development and channel enablement. Launched company's first SaaS offering.

SaaS startup backed by March Capital and Atlas Ventures focused on cloud native application delivery with in-built security and analytics.

• Led marketing for Cisco's biggest (Enterprise Networking/Switching - $15B+) as well fastest growing (Datacenter) segments overseeing a global team of marketeers. Owned portfolio marketing for 11+ multi-billion-dollar business lines including ISR, ASR, Catalyst, Nexus, ASA and Security, ACI, Vlock, Flexpod, ACE, WAAS among others. Ramped several products from 0-10M units, while shifting others to subscription models.• Conceptualized and led Cisco's first ever Global Developer Contest with participation across 73 countries. Received multiple marketing and industry awards for this initiative.• Led Cisco wide x-portfolio PoV and strategy for SDN/I reporting to operating committee (2011-2013). Was primary spokesperson for investors, analysts and media. • Led messaging and launch of Cisco’s hybrid and Intercloud strategy and announcement, with first forays into cloud, security and virtualization including partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Azure, VMware• Helped launch and scale Cisco ACI from 0 to $2B run rate in over 18 months and develop aecosystem of 40+ technology partners including F5, Citrix, A10, Palo Alto, Check Point, Docker etc.• Collaborated w/ EMC, VMware (Vblock) and NetApp (FlexPod) for joint solutions, RTM w/ Cisco UCS, Nexus.• Established joint marketing funds and scaled GTM with field marketing and global partner organizations. Led several PSS, SEVT sessions with focus on seller and channel enablement• Led early incubation of strategic initiatives: Internet of Things (IoT), SmartGrid (Energy) and Unified Access (mobility), Developer community.• Was a part of Cisco global rebranding initiative interfacing with Ogilvy, Redworks etc.

Led security and IP services project line manager for Shasta (acquired by Nortel) with inbound and outbound responsibilities and subsequently other Nortel products including in Metro Ethernet space. Owned product and feature definition, P&L and customer engagement while working with sales, engineering and marketing for over 300 global service provider and large enterprise customers. I also served as a bridge for security between the enterprise and SP business units.I also led the Nortel participation in some standards bodies like the VPN consortium, the PKI forum (where I was the business lead), IETF IPsec and IPv6 working groups.

I led product management and marketing for the company's v1.0 offering. The value proposition was to have pre-built "IT stacks" for e-Businesses to rapidly deploy applications on emerging data centers and hosting providers. We also built our own NOC to offer managed services. This was a precursor to today's VCE Vblock and Flexpod offerings. It was funded by Bay Partners, BlueStream Ventures, Pacesetter Capital, Raza Ventures, and Redwood Ventures. Subsequently acquired by e4e.

C-DAC is a strategic national initiative of the Dept. of Electronics (now Dept. of InfoTech) focused on bringing the super computing and communication technology of the country to the big league with indigenous development while making it affordable and relevant. As a leader of the Business division, I was closely involved in the commercialization of the HPCC technology as applied to high-impact solutions including weather forecasting, seismic data processing, computational fluid dynamics, image sensing, SCADA etc. During the four-year period I led a team of sales, pre-sales and post-sales engineers as well as marketing to build communication infrastructure for the software technology parks, large educational and R&D institutions in addition to several turnkey projects. I also established partnerships at a national and international level for several of these projects.