He built chips, invested in companies, then helped start Arrcus to change how networks are bought. Devesh Garg’s career follows a practical question: where does the next useful piece of the business belong?

After helping VMware turn strategy into more than 60 deals, Shekar Ayyar chose a smaller stage and a harder problem: freeing networks from the boxes that contain them. Now AI is making his once-technical argument feel rather urgent.