Ramesh Prabagaran

As the Vice President of R&D and Innovation, Ramesh sets the strategy, vision, roadmap and P&L for AI networking, NetOps with AI, NaaS and Cloud. This includes building MVPs and co-developing capabilities with customers and partners. Ramesh is a two-time startup founder in the networking industry with successful exits. He co-founded Viptela, a pioneer in the SD-WAN space acquired by Cisco, and Prosimo, a multi-cloud networking and SASE company acquired by Palo Alto Networks. He has a track record of innovating and bringing multi-billion-dollar disruptive products to market. He serves as an advisor to multiple companies and startups in the B2B and AI space across connectivity, IoT, data engineering, security, compliance, FinOps and more. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and an MS from the University of Kansas.