Powering an Architectural Security Transformation

James is an experienced go-to-market network and security infrastructure executive with a 20+ year track record building and scaling companies. After starting his career at Check Point Software, James moved to progressively larger leadership roles at Cisco, Viptela, and Aviatrix. His experience includes leading go-to-market strategy for Viptela from pre-launch through the sale to Cisco in 2017.

Burjiz’s experience as a leader and technology visionary spans 23 years with deep roots in networking, cloud transformation, and enterprise software. Prior to Elisity, Burjiz led many of Cisco’s best recognized routing and switching product groups with teams of 15 to 300 people. Burjiz is an Internet Task Force (IETF) author and patent holder for technologies ranging from routing, switching, and predictive cloud management.

Burjiz earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University, India, and his masters in Computer Engineering from Louisiana State University. He also holds a General Management degree from Harvard Business School.

Sundher brings extensive experience taking innovative networking technologies from concept to multimillion-dollar portfolio product. Sundher is responsible for technology, vision, and architecture for Elisity Cognitive Trust. Previously, Sundher was a Senior Network Architect at Cisco, where he developed industry-leading fast converging access networks and cloud solutions, as well as led many of the company’s enterprise, service provider, and ACI Solutions.

Sundher is a pioneer in Automatic Protection Switching and Ethernet Virtual Circuit technologies and holds multiple patents across enterprise, service provider, and DC areas for Cisco. Sundher holds a Masters of Engineering in Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

Srini has nearly 20 years of experience in Networking, Virtualization, Security, and currently heads Engineering at Elisity. He specializes in building Virtual Networking Products in the Datacenter and in Hybrid Cloud Platforms.

Srini joins from Cisco, where he was Principal Engineer and led teams that included Cisco’s Insieme’s Application Virtual Switch, Application Virtual Edge, and Vpod. He was an early developer of Cisco’s flagship virtual switching product, Nexus 1000V which currently has more than 10,000 customers. Srini holds seven patents in Networking and Virtualization and holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Arizona State University.

Matt brings a 20+ year track record of success that includes sales and technical leadership positions at Cisco, Viptela, and Open Systems. Matt has strong experience growing companies in all phases of the technology lifecycle, and is a powerful communicator about the benefits of adopting disruptive technologies for business transformation.

Charlie brings 15 years of digital-first enterprise marketing experience from leadership positions at Cisco and Symantec. Charlie has extensive experience in building customer-centric go-to-market strategies focusing on targeted account marketing, demand generation, branding, digital experiences, and end-to-end customer journey design.

Khalid is the founder and CEO of Graphiant. Prior to Graphiant, Khalid was the Co-founder and CTO of Viptela, acquired by Cisco for 610 million dollars. At viptlea he was responsible for driving the architecture and technology vison. Prior to Viptela he worked at Cisco for 17 years.  Khalid is widely regarded as a visionary in routing protocols and large-scale network architectures. In a career spanning over 25 years, he has played an instrumental role in architecting networks for Global Tier-1 carriers, Fortune 100 companies, and the healthcare industry. He has been awarded the pinnacle of Cisco certifications: Cisco Certified Architect (CCAr) and Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE). While working at Hewlett-Packard, he was honored as Distinguished Technologist, and he created the vision for the company’s Next-Generation Datacenter and Wide Area Network architectures. Raza holds multiple patents in routing and security protocol and is the author of a book titled “Large-Scale IP Network Solutions”.