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Ali Shaikh and the Price of a Packet
The Graphiant CEO has spent his career making networks less visible to the people who depend on them. His latest wager is that AI will make the plumbing matter more - and the old price tags matter less.
Dan Maier Makes Cybersecurity's Architecture Diagrams Speak Plain English
After more than two decades marketing cybersecurity, SaaS and AI companies, Versa Networks' CMO has made a specialty of finding the human problem inside the architecture diagram.
Lori Stout Took the Scenic Route to Marketing - Then Made Customer Language Her Operating System
She planned on law school, escaped politics, and talked her way into product marketing. Two decades later, Lori Stout is still asking the question that changed her career: what does the customer actually need to hear?
Donna Johnson Makes Invisible Infrastructure Make Sense
An electrical engineer became the marketer translating 5G, wireless WAN and cloud-managed connectivity into decisions people can actually make. At Inseego, Donna Johnson is applying that unusual career arc to a company preparing for a much larger global stage.
Abilash Menon Wants the Internet's Middle to Stop Using Spreadsheets
After two decades of making packets behave, the MaiaEdge co-founder is tackling telecom's awkward handoff: the place where automation ends, spreadsheets begin, and every network insists on being an island.
Ross Ortega
Ross Ortega is VP of Product Management at Microsoft, currently leading Discovery and Communications initiatives. He previously built a $1 billion portfolio of Azure networking services - including ExpressRoute, Virtual WAN, Application Gateway, and Web Application Firewall - and then led Azure for Operators, Microsoft's 5G and edge computing platform for telecommunications providers. Before Microsoft, he co-founded Consystant Design Technologies and served as President and CTO of GraniteEdge Networks. A career technologist with roots in embedded systems and networking, Ortega has spent over two decades at Microsoft shaping how enterprises and telecoms connect to the cloud.
Jerry Kennelly
Jerry M. Kennelly co-founded Riverbed Technology in 2002 and spent 16 years building it from a two-person startup into a billion-dollar enterprise serving 30,000 customers across every Forbes Global 100 company. A finance executive turned visionary operator, Kennelly combined rigorous business discipline with Silicon Valley boldness - taking Riverbed public on NASDAQ in 2006, engineering nine acquisitions, and watching its market cap peak near $6 billion in 2011. After retiring from Riverbed in April 2018, he became Chairman and CEO of Scandic Capital LLC and joined the board of cybersecurity firm Tenable.