Shailesh Shukla
Chief Executive Officer
Shailesh is the CEO and Chair of the Board of Directors at Aryaka. Most recently, at Google, he built a fast-growing multi-billion-dollar business in Cloud Networking, Security and Telecom as the VP/GM. Shailesh has deep roots in Silicon Valley, in senior leadership roles in startups and at-scale companies. In the startup world, Shailesh helped raise $140M as the Chief Operating Officer at Instart Logic, a fast-growing startup ranked #1 startup to work for in America by Glassdoor and Business Insider. In addition to Google, Shailesh was Vice President and General Manager of several multi-billion dollar routing businesses at Cisco Systems. He has also helped in leadership roles at Neustar, Redback Networks and Juniper Networks.
Before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area 22 years ago, Shailesh was a management consultant based in Boston at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver-Wyman) and Booz-Allen. He started his career as a software engineer at Sprint Corporation in Kansas City.
Shailesh holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from BITS Pilani, India, a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas, and an MBA (SM) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management.
He has previously served on the Boards of Openwave Mobility, Telica Systems, @Home Solutions, Bay.org, BITSAA Silicon Valley, and Merlin Systems. Shailesh is a Charter member of TiE and advises/invests in multiple startup companies.
Darin McAreavey
Chief Financial Officer
Darin brings over 20 years of experience to Aryaka as a senior accounting and financial professional. Most recently, Darin was EVP and CFO at Arcserve, while earlier roles included CFO at Stellent, a NASDAQ-listed software company that was sold to Oracle in 2006, Cachet Financial Solutions, Wireless Ronin Technologies, and Computer Network Technology. Darin holds an MBA in Finance from the University of St. Thomas and is a member of the Minnesota State Society for Certified Public Accountants.
Renuka Nadkarni
Chief Product Officer
Renuka Nadkarni is a security veteran with 20 years of experience building new businesses startups or new businesses at large, publicly traded companies. Before joining Aryaka, she held CTO, Security position at F5 Inc. where she was instrumental in driving F5’s foray into the security market. Previously, she has held various positions and built cutting-edge cloud and security products and launching new businesses at F5, VMware, Infoblox and launching startups. She holds an MS in Electric Engineering from the University of Houston and a BS in Electric Engineering from the University of Mumbai.
Megha Sharma
Chief Legal and People Officer
Megha Sharma is the Chief Legal and People Officer at Aryaka, overseeing all legal and regulatory matters. Prior to Aryaka, Megha was the General Counsel & Secretary at Uniphore Technologies, a VC-backed AI company, where she played a pivotal role in scaling the company and increasing its valuation by 10x to $2.5B and increasing its workforce to 800+ people worldwide.
Prior to Uniphore, Megha was the Assistant General Counsel, Corporate & Securities and Assistant Secretary at Synaptics Incorporated (NASDAQ: SYNA), where she led the company through a significant period of expansion and successfully led capital markets transactions and the acquisition of multiple companies.
Prior to Synaptics, Megha was Corporate Counsel at Imperva, Inc. where she helped lead the company through its IPO.
Megha has been recognized as a Next Generation: Women Leader in Tech Law, and is a thought leader on how to manage burnout and balance a demanding legal career.
Megha received her J.D. from Boston University and her B.A. from University of California, San Diego.
Vikas Garg
Chief Engineering & Cloud Operations Officer
Vikas Garg is the Chief Engineering & Cloud Operations Officer at Aryaka Networks. Vikas has more than 20 years of experience in Computer Networking with more than 10 years of design, development and management experience in the CDN industry. Previously, Vikas was the Vice President of Engineering at CDNetworks, heading their global research and development efforts. He was the Vice President of Engineering & Operations at Speedera Networks, prior to its acquisition by Akamai Technologies. At Speedera, Vikas helped to build one of the largest Content Delivery Networks in the industry. Before that, Vikas held senior engineering development and management roles at Wave Systems, Distinct Corporation, Microsoft, and Punjab Wireless Systems.
Vikas holds several patents in the area of Content Distribution Networks, Cloud Computing and Global Traffic Management.
Vikas holds dual graduate degrees, in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin, and in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama. Vikas received his undergraduate degree in Electronics from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh, India.
Vidyaranya Maddi
Chief Customer Officer
Seasoned IT leader with more than 25 years of experience who has seen, innovated and influenced the compute/networking industry from the Mainframes to today’s cloud/SaaS world. He has played leadership roles in both start-ups and large enterprises with a unique skill of creating a customer first culture, drive innovation at the speed of change without losing sight of corporate vision. He has been working with Aryaka for more than 12 years as SVP of Customer Support and Service Delivery.
Farzad Tari
SVP of Corporate and Business Development
As SVP of Corporate and Business Development, Farzad is responsible expanding Aryaka’s strategic partnerships and ecosystem and accelerating its go-to-market strategy. Farzad is a seasoned Business and Corporate Development executive with a 30-year track record of success in building strategic partnerships, driving channel programs, executing M&A transactions and unlocking shareholder value through successful exits. In his career Farzad has spearheaded billions of dollars of transactions including two IPOs, six strategic exits, and over 300 strategic partnerships, on behalf of industry leaders like Check Point, Imperva, F5 and Cisco.
Ryan Livesay
SVP Global Sales and Solutions Engineering
Ryan Livesay stands at the intersection of technology and sales, driving results as the Senior Vice President (SVP) Global Sales & Solution Engineering. Since 2019, Ryan has served Aryaka in various sales and engineering leadership roles blending technical aptitude with sales savvy insights. With over 25 years of technology sales management experience, Ryan previously led high-performing GTM teams at XO Communications, EarthLink and Interface Security. He holds a BS degree in Accounting and Finance from Illinois College.
