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 Jayshree Ullal is a billionaire businesswoman, president and CEO of Arista Networks
Jayshree Ullal was born in London, and raised in New Delhi. After schooling in India

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Jayshree Ullal is a 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.

Jayshree Ullal was born in London, and raised in New Delhi. After schooling in India

  • She graduated with a B.S. in engineering (electrical) from San Francisco State University.
  • She received a master's degree in engineering management from Santa Clara University.

Jayshree started  to work as engineering and strategy positions at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Fairchild Semiconductor.

  • She was director of internetworking products at Ungermann-Bass for four years before joining Crescendo Communications.
  • At Crescendo, Ullal became vice president of marketing, working with 100-Mbit/s over copper, the first CDDI products and first generation Ethernet switching.

In 1993, Crescendo Communications was acquired by Cisco Systems;

  • Under Cisco’s first acquisition, Ullal joined Cisco and began work on the Cisco Catalyst switching business, which grew from its beginning, in 1993, to a $5 billion business in 2000
  • As vice president and general manager of LAN switching in the Enterprise group, Ullal was responsible for unified communications, IP telephony, content networking and policy networking.
  • She oversaw some 20 mergers and acquisitions for Cisco in the enterprise sector.

Jayshree named Senior Vice President of Data Center & Switching, reporting to John Chambers;

  • She got responsibilities included the direction of the modular Nexus and Catalyst Data Center Switching and Application/Virtualization services which saw about $15 billion of direct and indirect revenue
  • Ullal’s career at Cisco spanned more than 15 years.

Ullal CEO & President of Arista Networks:

  • In October 2008, co-founders Andy Bechtolsheim & David Cheriton named Ullal CEO & President of Arista Networks, a cloud networking company located in Santa Clara, CA
  • In June 2014, Ullal led Arista Networks to an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ANET

Forbes magazine  named , Ullal one of the top five most influential people in the networking industry:

  • She was named by Forbes magazine as "one of the top five most influential people in the networking industry today" for her work at Arista Networks