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Jayshree Ullal

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Jayshree Ullal
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Jayshree V. Ullal (born March 27, 1961) is a British-American billionaire businesswoman, president and CEO of Arista Networks, a cloud networking company responsible for the deployment of 10/25/40/50/100/ 400/ 800 Gigabit Ethernet networking in the data center.[1]

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Early life and education

Ullal was born on March 27, 1961, in London into a Hindu family of Indian origin.[2] She grew up in New Delhi, India,[2] and was schooled at Convent of Jesus and Mary, Delhi.[1]

She attended San Francisco State University,[3] where she graduated with a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1981.[4] She went on to Santa Clara University where she received an M.S. in Engineering Management and Leadership in 1986.[5]

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Career

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Early career

Ullal began her career as a senior strategic development engineer at Fairchild Semiconductor and later joined Advanced Micro Devices (AMD),[6] where she designed high-speed memory chips for IBM and Hitachi.[7] In 1988 she joined Ungermann-Bass,[7] where she was director of the company's internetworking business unit.[8]

In March 1992, Ullal joined Crescendo Communications, a maker of Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI) network products, as vice-president of marketing.[8] She helped pioneer 100-Mbit/s Copper Distributed Data Interface (CDDI) products[9] and worked on first-generation Ethernet switching.[10]

Cisco

In September 1993, Cisco Systems acquired Crescendo Communications, marking Cisco's first acquisition and first foray into the switching market.[11] Ullal thereby 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.[12] As vice president and general manager of LAN switching in the Enterprise group,[citation needed] Ullal initiated strategic initiatives such as unified communications, IP telephony, content networking and policy networking.[12] She oversaw some 20 mergers and acquisitions for Cisco in the enterprise sector.[13]

By 2005 she became Senior Vice President of the Data Center, Switching and Security Technology Group.[14] 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.[15] Ullal's career at Cisco spanned more than 15 years.

Arista

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.[16]

Ullal 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.[17]

In June 2014, Ullal led Arista Networks to an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ANET.[18]

Jayshree was named one of Barron's “World's Best CEOs” in 2018 [19] and one of Fortune's “Top 20 Business persons” in 2019.[20]

Board of directors

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Awards and honors

  • Nominated as one of the 20 powerful Women to Watch in 2001 by Newsweek[24]
  • 2001 Innovator and Influencer Award by Information Week[citation needed]
  • 2005 One of the 50 Most Powerful People in Networking by Network World[25]
  • One of the Top Women in Storage in 2007[9]
  • A Women of Influence award for Security CSOs in 2008[26]
  • A Top Ten Executive in VMWorld 2011[27]
  • One of the seven prominent Indian-origin women in the IT industry, according to The Economic Times[28]
  • Recipient of the 2013 Santa Clara University School of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award[citation needed]
  • Ranked #2 in Top 25 Disrupters of 2014 list by CRN[29]
  • Ranked #3 in Top 25 Disrupters of 2015 list by CRN[30]
  • Ranked #9 in the 30 Most Impressive Female Engineers Alive Today list by Best Computer Science Degrees[31]
  • EY US Entrepreneur Of The Year Award Winner 2015[32]
  • World's Best CEOs: Growth Leaders 2018[33]
  • 1 on Masala's MOST INFLUENTIAL Asian Women in America list[34]
  • Named to Barron's “World's Best CEOs” list in 2018 and 2019.[35]
  • 18 on Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2019 list.[36]
  • Honored with 8th annual Forbes’ America's Richest Self-Made Women in 2022.[37]
  • Member of Silicon Valley Business Journal's first Power 100 list for 2023.[38]
  • 2023 ET Global Indian award winner[39]
  • 2024 Banyan Tree Award[40]
  • 2025 Silicon Valley Power 100[41]

Personal life

She is married to Vijay Ullal. They have two daughters and live in Saratoga, California.[42][2] Vijay Ullal, now a venture capitalist and investor, was president and chief operating officer of Fairchild Semiconductor from September 2012,[2][43] until November 2014.[44] She is also the sister of the late Saratoga City Councilwoman Susie Nagpal, who has a surviving son and daughter.[45][46] Forbes estimates that Jayshree owns about 5% of Arista's stock, some of which is earmarked for her two children, niece and nephew.[47]

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