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Arista Networks CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Jayshree V. Ullal is the Arista Networks's CEO. Arista Networks has 2,600 employees, of which 32 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Arista Networks executive team is 31% female and 69% male.
  • 61% of the management team is White.
  • 11% of Arista Networks management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 9% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
Jayshree V. Ullal

CEO / President

Jayshree V. Ullal's LinkedIn

Jayshree V. Ullal (born March 27, 1961) is an American billionaire businesswoman, president and CEO of Arista Networks, a cloud networking company responsible for the deployment of 10/25/40/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet networking in the data center.

Andreas B. Bechtolsheim Ph.d

Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman

Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim (born 30 September 1955) is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and billionaire. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer. He later became an investor, providing Sergey Brin and Larry Page with their first round of funding, a $100,000 investment in 1998 before the two had even incorporated their company, Google. His net worth reached $7 billion in September 2018.

Kenneth Duda

CTO

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I have experience contributing to high-tech companies at various levels: coding, designing, managing, product marketing, pre-sales, and support. My goal is to help build a business in the technology space.Specialties: I am a programmer (of the C++/Linux/Python flavor) with a background in operating systems, networking and distributed systems, especially Ethernet and IP networks. I have team leadership, project management, personnel management, and field-related experience in the data center networking space.

David Cheriton

Founder

Anshul Sadana

Chief Operating Officer

Anshul Sadana's LinkedIn

Anshul Sadana brings almost two decades of relevant skills in engineering management, systems and software development in the networking industry. Anshul joined Arista in 2007 and is responsible for Arista's cloud networking operations and customer advocacy worldwide. This includes global sales and market development, product definition and management, systems engineering and customer support functions.

Previously at Cisco, Anshul led aspects of software development of the Catalyst 4500 and 4900 product lines and also managed strategic customer relationships.

Anshul has an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business.

John F. McCool

Senior VP:Engg/Chief Platform Ofcr

John F. McCool's LinkedIn

John McCool is responsible for Arista's platforms including hardware, engineering, system test, customer and manufacturing operations. John brings over 30 years of executive and networking experience, including recent roles as Senior Vice President and General Manager at EMC, CEO of Firetide and 17 years at Cisco systems in engineering management. He joined Cisco in 1996 via the acquisition of Granite Systems, rising to Senior Vice President and General Manager of Datacenter switching and services. John has held key engineering roles at SynOptics, NeXT Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices. He holds several patents related to network technologies.

John holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University and an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Daniel Scheinman

Board Member

Charles Giancarlo

Board Member

Ita Brennan

Chief Financial Officer

Ita Brennan's LinkedIn

Ita Brennan is Arista's Chief Financial Officer responsible for all aspects of Arista's financial accounting, operations, controls and investor advocacy. She brings over two decades of financial management expertise in the high technology industry.

Prior to joining Arista, Ita served as CFO of a stealth start up firm in the energy sector from February 2014 to May 2015. Prior to that she had an eight year career at Infinera Corporation (NASDAQ: INFN), an intelligent transport networking company, most recently as CFO from July 2010 to February 2014 and Vice President of Finance and Corporate Controller from July 2006 to July 2010. From 1997 to 2006, Ita held various roles at Maxtor Corporation, a multi-billion dollar information storage solutions company, including Vice President of Finance for the Company’s Worldwide Operations.

Ita Brennan is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a public accounting alumna of Deloitte and Touche, having worked at the firm in both Ireland and the U.S.

Kelly Battles

Board Member

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Name & TitleBio
Andreas B. Bechtolsheim Ph.d

Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman

Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim (born 30 September 1955) is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and billionaire. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer. He later became an investor, providing Sergey Brin and Larry Page with their first round of funding, a $100,000 investment in 1998 before the two had even incorporated their company, Google. His net worth reached $7 billion in September 2018.

Kenneth Duda

CTO

Kenneth Duda's LinkedIn

I have experience contributing to high-tech companies at various levels: coding, designing, managing, product marketing, pre-sales, and support. My goal is to help build a business in the technology space.Specialties: I am a programmer (of the C++/Linux/Python flavor) with a background in operating systems, networking and distributed systems, especially Ethernet and IP networks. I have team leadership, project management, personnel management, and field-related experience in the data center networking space.

David Cheriton

Founder

Arista Networks board members

Name & TitleBio
Andreas B. Bechtolsheim Ph.d

Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman

Andreas Maria Maximilian Freiherr von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim (born 30 September 1955) is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and billionaire. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was its chief hardware designer. He later became an investor, providing Sergey Brin and Larry Page with their first round of funding, a $100,000 investment in 1998 before the two had even incorporated their company, Google. His net worth reached $7 billion in September 2018.

Daniel Scheinman

Board Member

Charles Giancarlo

Board Member

Kelly Battles

Board Member

Lewis Chew

Board Member

Mark Templeton

Board Member

Nikos Theodosopoulos

Board Member

Yvonne Wassenaar

Board Member

Ann Mather

Board Member

Laura Conigliaro

Board Member

Arista Networks leadership demographics

Arista Networks gender distribution in management team

  • The Arista Networks executive team is 31% female and 69% male.
  • Arista Networks is 37% female and 63% male company-wide.
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Male
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Company-wide: 63%
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Company-wide: 37%

Arista Networks executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Arista Networks executive officers is White.
  • 61% of the management team is White.
  • 13% of Arista Networks's management is Asian.
  • 11% of the management team is Hispanic or Latino.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 39% of employees are White.
  • 35% of employees are Asian.
  • 16% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
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