管理团队

As President and CEO of Arista for over a decade, Jayshree Ullal is responsible for Arista's business and thought leadership in cloud networking. She led the company to a historic and successful IPO in June 2014 from zero to a multibillion-dollar business. Formerly Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco, responsible for a $10B business in datacenter, switching and services. With more than 40 years of networking experience, she is the recipient of numerous awards including E&Y's "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2015, Barron's "World's Best CEOs" in 2018 and one of Fortune's "Top 20 Business Persons" in 2019. She was awarded "Global Indian of the Year" by the Economic Times in 2023 and was named a "Silicon Valley Power 100" in the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2023 and 2024.

Jayshree holds a B.S. in Engineering (Electrical) and an M.S. degree in engineering management. She is a recipient of the SFSU and SCU Distinguished Alumni Awards in 2013 and 2016.

Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim is Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Arista Networks. He is responsible for advanced AI, silicon and optics initiatives. Previously Andy was a Co-Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems, responsible for next generation server, storage, and network architectures.

Andy received a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and was a doctoral student in Computer Engineering at Stanford University from 1977 to 1982. He has been honored with a Fulbright scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation, the EY 2015 US Entrepreneur of the Year Award (together with Jayshree Ullal) and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Chris brings over 30 years of experience in the technology industry to his role as SVP for the Americas at Arista, which he joined in 2009. His responsibilities have included significant sales growth across the East, Central, and Canadian regions. During his tenure at Arista, Chris has successfully built both national and international sales teams and played a key role in driving campus growth and enhancing customer engagement.

Before joining Arista, Chris held various sales and sales management positions in New York City and London. Notably, he was a member of the initial Global Accounts Management team and served as an HPC specialist at Cisco Systems.

Chris has a B.A. in Theatre from the University of New Hampshire.

Chantelle Breithaupt serves as CFO and Senior VP at Arista, which includes the management of IT, CISO and legal operations. With over 25 years of global financial roles, Chantelle brings a breadth of experience in both medium and large cap companies, across industrial and software industries. Prior to joining the leadership team of Arista, Chantelle served as Senior Vice President and CFO of Aspen Technology. Prior to that she had executive finance roles at Cisco Systems, and across four GE businesses.

In addition to her CFO role, Chantelle is committed to being an ally for the initiatives of diversity, equality, and inclusion. This has been recognized by institutions such as DiversityFirst, YWCA Silicon Valley and the Multiplier Effect Initiative which focuses on the promotion and proximity to diverse employees.

Chantelle Breithaupt holds an Honours in Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada). She is a graduate of GE’s Financial and Managerial Executive leadership programs.

Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software, lead architect of Arista’s EOS Network Data Lake (NetDL) and drives Network as a Service (NAAS) initiatives across Arista’s products. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. From 2005 to 2008, Ken was also the Acting President of Arista Networks.

Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco.

Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

A 20 year networking industry veteran, Mark Foss joined Arista Networks in 2007. He is responsible for Arista's global sales operations, field marketing and business planning. Previously, Mark was Vice President of International Sales at Arista. Prior to that he was Director of Product Management at Cisco Systems, overseeing the Catalyst 4500 and 4900 product lines where he managed marketing and channel operations for the Catalyst 5000 and 6500.

Originally from Canada, Mark holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Calgary.

Hugh Holbrook leads the development of AI and cloud platforms, system software and Arista’s participation in the UEC (Ultra Ethernet Consortium). At Arista since 2005, he has led the development of many of the foundations of Arista's EOS. Before Arista, he worked at Cisco and played a key role in the software and hardware evolution of the Catalyst 4500. He is the inventor of Source-Specific Multicast (SSM), chaired the IETF working group that standardized it, and has authored multiple RFCs including the PIM-SM protocol spec. He holds eight patents in networking, systems, and hardware design.

Hugh has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Stanford University in Computer Science.

Ashwin Kohli has over 20 years experience in the networking field and managing large teams. He has been at Arista since 2011 and is responsible for global systems engineering, customer support and advanced professional services for customer advocacy. Prior to joining Arista, Ashwin ran large global network teams at companies such as BNP Paribas, Merrill Lynch, and ABN AMRO.

Ashwin holds a B.S. in Computer Science & Accounting from Manchester University, United Kingdom.

John McCool serves as an advisor to the CEO. Prior to almost a decade at Arista Networks, John had more than 35 years of executive and networking experience, including 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.

A 20-year networking industry veteran, Christopher Schmidt joined Arista Networks in 2008 as a Sales Director and was responsible for the company's growth in low latency financial services. He now drives worldwide sales and customer engagement for the company across global regions and non cloud verticals. Prior to Arista, Chris was a Client Director at Cisco Systems responsible for global sales at key financial institutions. Previously, Chris was a sales consultant for minimally invasive procedures at Boston Scientific.

Chris holds a B.S. in Marketing and Management from Siena College.

Kelly Bodnar Battles has over 30 years of finance and strategy leadership experience including serving as CFO at Alpha Medical, Quora, Bracket Computing and Host Analytics, Vice President of Finance at IronPort Systems, Chief of Staff to the CFO of Cisco Systems, and Director of Strategy and Corporate Development at Hewlett Packard. Kelly also worked as an Associate at both McKinsey and J.P. Morgan.

Kelly is currently on the Board and the Audit Committee Chair of Genesys, Clari, DataStax and Alpha Medical, and has also served on the Board and as Audit Committee Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation (owner of Wikipedia.org) in the past. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, both with honors.

Lewis Chew is the former CFO of Dolby Laboratories for 9 years, where he oversaw the company's finances as well as IT, manufacturing, supply chain, and global facilities. Prior to that, he served as the CFO for National Semiconductor for over 10 years until it was acquired by Texas Instruments. He has been recognized five times as one of America's best CFOs by Institutional Investor magazine in its annual ranking. Before joining National Semiconductor, Lewis was a partner at KPMG LLP, serving numerous technology and financial institution clients.

Lewis is currently on the Board of Cadence Design Systems and is Chair of the Audit Committee. He also served on the Board of PG&E for nearly 10 years, chairing two committees during a portion of that time. He holds a B.S. degree in accounting from Santa Clara University.

Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software and lead architect of Arista Networks EOS, a stateful modular operating system for all Arista Networks products. He is also the co-author of network virtualization specifications including VXLAN with VMware and NVGRE with Microsoft. From 2005 to 2008, Ken was also the Acting President of Arista Networks.

Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco.

Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Charles Giancarlo is Chairman and CEO of Pure Storage. He has a three-decade track record of driving growth and innovation at leading global technology companies. Previously Charlie served as Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners, as well as Managing Director and Head of Value Creation. Prior to Silver Lake, Charlie served in senior executive roles at Cisco Systems, including CTO and Chief Development Officer, and was a leader of Cisco's multi-product, multi-market growth strategy, driving entry into new markets.

He currently serves on the boards of Pure Storage and Zscaler, is a Trustee of Brown University and an advisor to the UC Berkeley School of Engineering. He is a former board member of Accenture, Avaya, Imperva, Netflix, and ServiceNow. Charlie holds a B.S. in engineering from Brown University, a M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Greg Lavender has more than 40 years of experience in software and hardware product engineering, cloud-scale systems architecture engineering, and advanced research and development. Prior to his role as CTO at Intel where he currently oversees software strategy across AI, security, confidential and accelerated computing, he held leadership positions at VMware, Citigroup, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems. Before his career in tech began, he was on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin for 14 years, including three years as Associate Chairman for Academics. In 2024 he was named one of the “Top 10 most influential CTOs” by Technology Magazine.

Dr. Lavender holds a B.S. degree in computer science from the University of Georgia, and a M.S. and PhD in computer science from Virginia Tech. He is an academic philanthropist having endowed three undergraduate scholarships and three PhD Fellowships. He serves on three academic advisory boards and is a Trustee of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens Greece.

Dan Scheinman is an angel investor, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Dan was the first investor in Zoom Video Communications, an early investor in SentinelOne and Treasure Data (sold to ARM). He currently serves on the boards of Zoom Video Communications and SentinelOne. In addition, Dan has made a number of early investments in SaaS, security and infrastructure. Prior to that, Dan was a SVP at Cisco Systems and worked there for 18 years.

As a seasoned high tech executive, Mark Templeton brings CEO and enterprise-scale software expertise to the board. Mark was an executive of Citrix Systems, a global provider of software solutions, from January 1995 until his retirement in October 2015, serving as president, CEO and member of the board. During his tenure, Citrix grew from $15 million to over $3B in revenue, and 9,000 employees.

Mark presently serves on the board of directors of Health Catalyst, a data and analytics technology company. He is a former board member of Equifax and Keysight Technologies. He holds a B.A. in product design from North Carolina State University and an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

As founding CEO and Chairperson of Arista for fifteen years, Jayshree Ullal is responsible for Arista's business and strategic leadership in cloud networking. She led the company to a historic and successful IPO in June 2014 from zero to a multibillion-dollar business and Arista's entry into the S&P500 in 2018. Formerly Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco, responsible for a $10B business in datacenter, switching and services. With more than three decades of networking and executive experience, she is the recipient of numerous awards including E&Y's "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2015, Barron's "World's Best CEOs" in 2018 and one of Fortune's "Top 20 Business Persons" in 2019. She was awarded "Global Indian of the Year" by the Economic Times in 2023 and was named a "Silicon Valley Power 100" in the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2023 and 2024.

Jayshree holds a B.S. in Engineering (Electrical) and an M.S. degree in engineering management and recipient of the SFSU and SCU Distinguished Alumni Awards in 2013 and 2016.

Yvonne Wassenaar has an extensive background in cloud infrastructure and currently serves as a board member for Forrester, a research and advisory company, Rubrik, a private data security company and JFrog, a software development company. Previously, Yvonne was the CEO of Puppet, an information technology automation software company and prior to that she was the CEO of Airware, an enterprise drone solutions company. In Yvonne’s time at New Relic, a cloud-based observability platform company, she held the position of CIO. She has served as a board member for Anaplan, Inc., a cloud-based business planning software company, and Mulesoft, an integration platform for SOA, SaaS, and APIs.

She has also served on the boards of private and non-profit institutions. Yvonne holds a B.A. in economics with a specialization in computing from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Business.