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| Jayshree Ullal |
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Jayshree Ullal, Board of Directors |
| Jayshree Ullal is a networking executive veteran with 25 years of experience. She is currently the President and CEO of Arista Networks, where she is responsible for building the company's business in cloud networking. In 2005, Jayshree was named as one of the "50 Most Powerful People" in Network World. She was nominated as one of the 20 most powerful "Women to Watch in 2001" by Newsweek. Formerly, Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco, where she was responsible for $10 billion in annual revenue from Data Center, Switching and Services. Previously, Jayshree was Senior Vice President of the Security Technology group, where she doubled the Self-Defending Networks portfolio to $2 billion and amassed a market share of more than 40% in three years. She oversaw nearly 20 mergers and acquisitions for Cisco in the enterprise sector. |
| Prior to her 15 years at Cisco, Jayshree was the Vice President of Marketing at Crescendo Communications, Cisco's first acquisition. Jayshree holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from San Francisco State University and a M.S. degree in engineering management from Santa Clara University. |
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| Jay Chaudhry |
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Jay Chaudhry, Founder and Chief Executive Officer |
| Jay Chaudhry is a seasoned entrepreneur with a track record of success. He is an innovator and trendsetter who has founded and funded several successful companies including Zscaler, AirDefense, CipherTrust, CoreHarbor, Air2Web, and SecureIT. Chaudhry's 25 years of sales, marketing and engineering experience also includes leadership roles at leading companies such as IBM, NCR and Unisys. |
| Chaudhry was honored as Entrepreneur of the Year in the US Southeast and as a finalist for the US National by Ernst & Young. He was named an Innovator & Influencer by Information Week magazine and "Who's Who" by the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He was recognized as a Market Entrepreneur by SC Magazine. He won Entrepreneur of the Year award from Catalyst magazine three times and has appeared in Atlanta's "Top 50 Names to Know" many times. |
| Chaudhry founded AirDefense, which pioneered the wireless security market and had a successful merger with Motorola. He also founded CipherTrust, creating the industry’s first email security gateway appliance and led its successful merger with Secure Computing. He also founded CoreHarbor, the first ASP for e-procurement solutions, which was acquired by USi/AT&T. In 1996, Chaudhry founded SecureIT, the first pure-play Internet security services company, as a self-funded venture. SecureIT experienced exponential revenue growth and was acquired by VeriSign, where Chaudhry served as vice president and general manager of the Security Services Division. Prior to that, he held various sales and marketing management positions at NCR, IBM, Unisys, and IQ Software. |
| He holds a Master’s in Computer Engineering, Master’s in Industrial Engineering, and Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati. |
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| Lane Bess |
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Lane M. Bess, Chief Operating Officer |
| Lane Bess has spent over 27 years as an operational executive. He has successfully launched start-ups and scaled medium sized businesses to large scale. Most recently between 2008 and 2010, Lane was CEO of Palo Alto Networks where he led the fundraising and scaled the company from its early go-to-market to a revenue run rate of over $100 million and cash flow positive. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he served as the EVP of Worldwide Sales and General Manager of publicly traded Trend Micro Inc. (Nikkei) - growing worldwide revenues to over $1 billion annually. |
| With core strengths in Sales, Marketing and Product Management Mr. Bess has deep expertise in driving high growth for computing, network security, and software companies. His business experience includes providing critical technology solutions to Fortune 2000 companies, large enterprises, mid-size businesses, as well as consumer markets. Through continuous leverage of distribution channels, Lane has been consistently recognized as a leading "channel friendly" executive. During Lane's career he has also held senior Sales and Marketing roles at NCR Corporation and AT&T. During his time at NCR, he oversaw Multinational Corporation sales and managed large global sales divisions. At AT&T, Lane was responsible for the product launches of AT&T's Business and Consumer Internet services in the mid 90s. |
| Mr. Bess holds a B.S. Degree in Managerial Economics from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters Degree from University of Dayton. |
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| K. Kailash |
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| Founder and Chief Architect |
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K. Kailash, Founder and Chief Architect |
| With over 25 years of experience in software development, Kailash is the scalability and high performance guru for networking and security technology. He has played a key role in leading companies such as CipherTrust, AirDefense, Netscaler, Mylex, Unisys, and Wipro. |
| Prior to Zscaler, he founded a consulting company focused on building high performance systems. Previously, Kailash played an instrumental role in drastically scaling the CipherTrust email security gateway. As a chief architect at AirDefense, he improved the performance and scalability of wireless security appliances by a factor of 20. Kailash is considered to be the brains behind NetScaler, the highest performing web application delivery and load balancing platform. At Mylex, Kailash led a team to develop device drivers for RAID controllers and at Unisys, he was responsible for high-end, multiprocessor UNIX systems. Kailash started his career at Wipro when it was a start-up and developed a range of technologies, including system management, operating system, and multi-processor systems. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Technology from IIT Delhi and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from IT BHU Varanasi. |
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| Gururaj Singh |
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| Senior Vice President of Engineering and Data Center Operations |
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Gururaj Singh, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Data Center Operations |
| Gururaj Singh is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of industry experience in the networking and security industries. He brings a unique combination of start-up experience that is critical for innovation, and large company experience that is required for scaling the business. He leads development and global cloud infrastructure to take Zscaler’s revolutionary SaaS technology to the next level. |
| Most recently, Gururaj served as the Vice President and co-General Manager of the $500 million Application Delivery Business unit at Cisco Systems where he managed a global team of 500 engineers. Prior to that, he was the CEO and co-founder of Netiverse which was acquired by Cisco in 2000. In addition, Gururaj has led engineering operations at various successful ventures, including Berkeley Networks (acquired by Fore Systems), Centillion Networks (acquired by Bay Networks), and Adapative Corporation (acquired by Network Equipment Technologies). |
| Gururaj obtained a Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara. He holds multiple patents in networking and security technologies. |
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| Dr. Amit Sinha |
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Dr. Amit Sinha, Chief Technology Officer |
| Dr. Amit Sinha is a seasoned entrepreneur and technology leader in the security and wireless networking industry. He spearheads research and development initiatives of Zscaler’s emerging technologies and serves as the primary technical spokesperson for the company’s cloud security solution. |
| Prior to Zscaler, Amit served as Fellow & Chief Technology Officer of Motorola’s Enterprise Networking and Communication business, delivering wireless LAN infrastructure, voice and video communications along with a full portfolio of security and management solutions. He was the Chief Technology Officer of AirDefense, the market leader in the wireless intrusion prevention space, successfully acquired by Motorola in 2008. Prior to AirDefense, he served as Vice President and Chief Technologist at Engim, a multi-channel 802.11 semiconductor company he co-founded. He held various engineering and research positions at MIT, Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Intel Corporation and Texas Instruments before. Dr. Sinha is a technology leader, featured in several prominent media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, CNN, NECN, Network World, etc. He has authored over 25 journal/conference papers, contributed chapters to 3 books, and is the inventor of 19 US patents granted or pending. |
| Amit received his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.Tech. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology where he was awarded the President of India Gold Medal for graduating summa cum laude. |
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| Manoj Apte |
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Manoj Apte, Vice President of Product Management |
| Manoj Apte brings a strong track record in network security products. He has over a decade of experience creating architectures for high performance networking and security. |
| Prior to Zscaler, Manoj was a senior product manager for High End Security Systems at Juniper Networks. As product manager of the IPS product line, Manoj created and launched Juniper's 10G IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) appliance that has re-established Juniper as a serious contender for the top spot in the IPS market place. Manoj has been responsible for Juniper's standalone and integrated firewall IPS product lines. Through his 8 years at Juniper Manoj led teams involved in platform drivers, monitoring, lawful interception, firewalls, and intrusion prevention. Prior to Juniper, Manoj was at Pacific Broadband Communications as the lead developer for platform software. He is on the advisory board for the I3P survival and recovery program and a member of the ISA SP99 committee on Industrial Automation and Control System Security. Manoj has 6 patents pending; he holds a Ph.D. in real-time embedded systems from Mississippi State University and a Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Technology from IIT Bombay. |
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| Patrick Foxhoven |
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VP of Cloud Operations |
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Patrick Foxhoven, VP of Cloud Operations |
| Patrick is a nationally recognized security expert in building secure, scalable, and redundant Internet-enabled networks with direct network design, implementation, and support experience. He has over fifteen years of diverse experience in the service provider and managed networking and security services industries. He is also a seasoned entrepreneur with experience in building robust managed services and network operations teams. Patrick is responsible for the ongoing operations and management of Zscaler’s industry-leading global cloud infrastructure. |
| Most recently Foxhoven was the CIO and a co-founder of CentraComm, one of the nation’s six fastest growing managed security providers, where he led the development and implementation of the company’s overall technology vision and product roadmap. Prior to co-founding CentraComm, Foxhoven was the Vice President of a Midwest-based Internet Service Provider with 5 physical network points of presence throughout Ohio servicing over 2,000 customers. |
| Patrick has co-authored three books on information security and is an often-quoted expert in numerous industry media outlets. Patrick has a proven track record that establishes him as one of the foremost experts in the cloud security industry. |
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| Craig Hicks-Frazer |
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Craig Hicks-Frazer, Vice President of Service Providers |
| Craig Hicks-Frazer is a seasoned sales executive with 20 years of experience in successfully building businesses from the ground up. His experience extends across several verticals and numerous geographies, including North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. He leads the initiative to expand Zscaler’s early traction with dozens of service providers and build a strong vertical market. |
| Most recently, Craig was the Vice President of Service Providers at Blue Coat Systems where he was instrumental in starting this vertical segment and growing it to a significant revenue base. He began his tenure at Blue Coat in 2001 as the Managing Director of the UK and developed a solid community of partners from the ground up. Prior to that, he held several roles of increasing responsibility at a variety of organizations including Alcatel and Cabletron Systems. In addition, he served in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces for four years as a member of the Parachute Regiment. |
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| Jim Hyman |
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Jim Hyman, Vice President Sales for North America |
| Jim joins Zscaler with over 20 years of US and international sales, business development, and strategy experience. His expertise in the area of security technology gives him a unique ability to assess opportunities and customer needs in this industry. Jim’s recognition by VAR Business as a “Top 100 Channel Executive” and his experience in leading direct sales teams provides Zscaler valuable sales expertise. |
| Most recently Jim spent more than 5 years with IronPort Systems (acquired by Cisco Systems) where he was Vice President of Western Sales and US Channels. He established and grew a channel sales infrastructure and organization that helped establish IronPort as the market leader for email security. Upon the acquisition by Cisco, channel partners were involved in over 85% of the total company transactions. In his role leading the direct sales team Jim grew revenue over 300% in a 3 year period. Prior to IronPort Jim spearheaded Worldwide Channels at Ensim Corporation, an infrastructure management software company focused on the telecommunications and service provider industries. Previously, Jim was Vice President of Business Development for Digital Ventures, a venture capital firm in San Francisco. Additionally, Jim has held positions as Director of International Business Development at IBM and Director of Operations for Whistle Communications (acquired by IBM). |
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| Michael Sutton |
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| Vice President, Security Research |
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Michael Sutton, Vice President, Security Research |
| Michael Sutton has spent more than a decade in the security industry conducting leading-edge research, building teams of world-class researchers, and educating others on a variety of security topics. As VP of Security Research, Michael heads Zscaler Labs, the research and development arm of the company. Zscaler Labs is responsible for researching emerging topics in web security and developing innovative security controls, which leverage the Zscaler in-the-cloud model. The team is comprised of researchers with a wealth of experience in the security industry. |
| Prior to joining Zscaler, Michael was the Security Evangelist for SPI Dynamics where, as an industry expert, he was responsible for researching, publishing, and presenting on various security issues. In 2007, SPI Dynamics was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. Previously, Michael was a Research Director at iDefense where he led iDefense Labs, a team responsible for discovering and researching security vulnerabilities in a variety of technologies. iDefense was acquired by VeriSign in 2005. Michael is a frequent speaker at major information security conferences; he is regularly quoted by the media on various information security topics, has authored numerous articles, and is the co-author of Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerabilities, an Addison-Wesley publication. Michael holds a Master’s degree in Information Systems Technology from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta. |
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| Reiner Baumann |
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Reiner Baumann, Vice President Sales for Europe, Middle-East and Africa |
| Reiner started Zscaler’s European operations at the beginning of 2009. As Vice President for Europe, Middle-East, and Africa he brings to Zscaler a 20 year track record in sales and marketing roles at successful start-up companies and leading high tech firms. At Zscaler he applies his expertise in establishing an operation from the grounds up and growing it to a profitable business in the fast moving cloud security space. |
| Before joining Zscaler Reiner spent six years with IronPort Systems (email and web security vendor acquired by Cisco) where he started and was responsible for the Central and Eastern European operation which grew to become the most profitable sales region worldwide. By choosing the right mix of the appropriate channel strategy and the direct sales touch efforts he was able to post four consecutive years of 300% revenue growth year-over-year. With more than 125 ordering VARs, the channel was a cornerstone in this impressive growth. Previously Reiner started and ran the European business for Rainfinity (a security and storage startup acquired by EMC). He grew the EMEA business into the biggest revenue generating region worldwide by building and leveraging a strong network of channel partners. Reiner has also spent eight years at Hewlett-Packard in various management positions in sales, marketing, and support. During his time at HP he lived and worked in the United States, Italy, and Germany. Reiner earned a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wuerzburg (Germany) and the University of Metz (France). |
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