Jayshree V. Ullal

Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson

Santa Clara, United States

Jayshree Ullal is the Founding CEO and now Chairperson of Arista Networks, leading the company since 2008. She drove Arista’s historic IPO in 2014 and grew it into a multibillion-dollar S&P 500 company with a $100B+ market cap. Previously, she was Senior Vice President at Cisco, overseeing a $10B datacenter business. Ullal has over 40 years of networking experience and has received numerous awards, including E&Y's 'Entrepreneur of the Year' (2015), Barron's 'World's Best CEOs' (2018), and Fortune's 'Top 20 Business Persons' (2019). She holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in engineering management.

Expertise

• Leadership
• Technology
• Networking
• Cloud
• AI