Arista Networks Claimed Company
Arista Networks is a computer networkingĀ firm delivering cloud networking solutions for large data center and computer environments. read more
Andreas B. Bechtolsheim Ph.D. ā Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Development Officer at Arista Networks
Executive Bio
Dr. Andreas B. Bechtolsheim, also known as Andy, Ph.D., co-founded Arista Networks, Inc. in 2004 and has been its Chief Development Officer since 2008. Dr. Bechtolsheim was a Co-Founder of HighBar Partners. He served as the Interim Chief Financial Officer of Arista Networks from April 9, 2015 to May 18, 2015. Dr. Bechtolsheim has over 25 years of Network Computing knowledge and expertise. He co-founded Oracle America, Inc., (formerly, Sun Microsystems Inc.) in 1982 and served as its Chief Architect until October 2008 and also served as its Senior Vice President of Network Systems organization and Vice President of Technology. He served as a Member of Sun's executive management team. He invented the ???Stanford University Network workstation??? that eventually became the Sun-1 Workstation and was instrumental in launching other successful Sun products. He served as an Advisor to Avexus, Inc. He founded Kealia, Inc., and served as its President. He served as Vice President of Engineering and later Vice President General Manager of the Gigabit Switching Group at Cisco Systems, Inc. from 1996 to 2003. He founded Granite Systems, Inc., in 1995. Dr. Bechtolsheim was at Granite Systems, Inc. He has been the Chairman of Arista Networks, Inc. since 2004. He serves as the Chairman of Executive Board at Real Intent, Inc. He serves as a Director of Bluebox Security, Inc., and Real Intent, Inc. He served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors at DSSD, Inc., until June 2014. He served as a Member of Technical Advisory Board at Tensilica, LLC. He served as a Director of Silicon Light Machines Corporation. He served as a Director of Sendmail, Inc. and CynApps Inc. He served as a Director of Mobilygen Corporation. He served as a Director at Magma Design Automation Inc., (alternate name Magma Design Automation LLC) from May 1997 to February 2003. He was honored with a Fulbright scholarship, a German National Merit Foundation scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Dr. Bechtolsheim was a Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University from 1977 to 1982. He earned M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976.
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Arista Networks' Executive Team at a Glance
Based on 588 ratings, Arista Networks' employees are very satisfied with their Executive Team and give them an āA+ā or 94/100. On average, Men provided higher ratings for their Executive Team compared to Women. Also, the Customer Success department thinks more highly of the Executive Team relative to the Design department.
Arista Networks' Executive Team ranks in the Top 5% of other companies in San Francisco and Top 5% of other companies on Comparably that also have 1,001-5,000 Employees.
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