Ayla Networks CEO and leadership

Jon Cobb has served as Vice President, Global Marketing at Stratasys from 2010 to 2012 and will continue as Executive Vice President, Global Marketing of Stratasys Ltd. Cobb has also held the position of Vice President and General Manager for the Dimension 3D printing business unit of Stratasys, since January of 2002. Cobb joined the company as Vice President of Marketing in August of 1995. Before joining the company, he served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Westec Security, Inc., and he has held various management-level sales and marketing positions with Lockheed Martin’s Calcomp Division. Cobb received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

An entrepreneur at heart, David has spent the past 12 years providing strategic marketing, business development and sales support to start-ups, taking them from product definition to acquisition. Prior to founding Ayla, David served as vice president, business development and senior director, strategic marketing for ZeroG Wireless, a company providing low-power Wi-Fi products to the embedded space. In that role, David forged partnerships with leading microcontroller companies, and built relationships with OEMs serving a variety of markets including health, fitness, home controls and smart energy.

Prior to ZeroG, David was an early employee at Matrix Semiconductor, serving in various sales and marketing roles before Matrix was acquired by SanDisk. In earlier roles, David helped drive pricing strategy at Intel, and was an analyst in the mergers and acquisitions group at Chase Bank. David has an MBA from University of Michigan and a BA from Colgate University. He holds five US patents.

Specialties: smart grid, telemedicine, business development, negotiation, international partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, fund raising, team building and management

Ashish comes to Ayla from Flipkart, an electronic commerce company based in Bangalore, India. He headed the engineering for Flipkart's customer shopping experience-including the mobile site and apps, the desktop site, search platform, product recommendations and personalization, as well as the merchandising, advertising and order-placement platforms. Prior to Flipkart, he was a long-time software and technology leader at Amazon and also served as chief technology officer at two companies: Sirqul in Seattle and Micromax Informatics in India.

Agrawal graduated from Columbia University in New York with a master's degree in electrical engineering (MSEE), and from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi with a bachelor's degree in computer science.

Matt comes to Ayla from ChargePoint (CHPT), the provider of Electric Vehicle charging stations where he held various senior finance roles. Previously, Matt was VP of Finance, software, and services, at Pace Plc, a public UK consumer-electronics company that ARRIS acquired in 2016.

After graduating from Newcastle University (UK) with a Bachelors’s degree in Economics, Matt began his career in Audit at KPMG, where he qualified as Chartered Accountant. He then moved into a Corporate Finance role at PwC before joining Pace Plc.

An entrepreneur at heart, David has spent the past 12 years providing strategic marketing, business development and sales support to start-ups, taking them from product definition to acquisition. Prior to founding Ayla, David served as vice president, business development and senior director, strategic marketing for ZeroG Wireless, a company providing low-power Wi-Fi products to the embedded space. In that role, David forged partnerships with leading microcontroller companies, and built relationships with OEMs serving a variety of markets including health, fitness, home controls and smart energy.

Prior to ZeroG, David was an early employee at Matrix Semiconductor, serving in various sales and marketing roles before Matrix was acquired by SanDisk. In earlier roles, David helped drive pricing strategy at Intel, and was an analyst in the mergers and acquisitions group at Chase Bank. David has an MBA from University of Michigan and a BA from Colgate University. He holds five US patents.

Specialties: smart grid, telemedicine, business development, negotiation, international partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, fund raising, team building and management

Jon Cobb has served as Vice President, Global Marketing at Stratasys from 2010 to 2012 and will continue as Executive Vice President, Global Marketing of Stratasys Ltd. Cobb has also held the position of Vice President and General Manager for the Dimension 3D printing business unit of Stratasys, since January of 2002. Cobb joined the company as Vice President of Marketing in August of 1995. Before joining the company, he served as Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Westec Security, Inc., and he has held various management-level sales and marketing positions with Lockheed Martin’s Calcomp Division. Cobb received a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.