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Darin McAreavey

Darin McAreavey

Interim CEO & 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.

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Renuka Nadkarni

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.

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Pete Harteveld

Pete Harteveld

Chief Revenue Officer

Pete Harteveld brings more than 20 years of experience working across sales, operations, strategy, and business development roles. In leading global sales organizations, Pete’s focus has been on building great technology companies while identifying and meeting the needs of customers, both large and small.

Prior to joining Aryaka, Pete was the Chief Revenue Officer for Veracode, a leader in the Application Security market. Additionally, Pete led Worldwide Sales and Business Development for Compuware, a Mainframe DevOps company focused on accelerating application development and software delivery systems for Fortune 1,000 corporations across the world. Prior to joining Compuware, Pete held leadership roles at CA Technologies and Deloitte Consulting.

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Srini Addepalli

Srini Addepalli

Chief Technology Officer

Srini Addepalli is a security and Edge computing expert with 25+ years of experience. Before joining Aryaka, Srini was at Intel, where he incubated multiple open source edge computing and security initiatives including Service Mesh, cloud native SASE framework, Distributed HSM and Multi Edge/Cloud orchestration technologies. Before Intel, he held the Fellow position at Freescale and CTO position at Intoto Inc. As part of Intoto, which was acquired by Freescale, he is instrumental in leading the development of Gateway and UTM (Unified Threat Management) product lines. Srini has multiple patents in networking and security technologies. He holds a BE (Hons) degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani in India.

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Christiana Khostovan

Christiana Khostovan

General Counsel | Corporate Secretary | Chief Human Resources Officer

Christiana Khostovan is the General Counsel, Corporate Secretary, and Chief Human Resources Officer at Aryaka. She oversees all legal, regulatory, and HR functions including corporate governance and securities, commercial transactions, employment, IP, privacy, and litigation. Christiana joined Aryaka from Revel Systems where she was General Counsel, Corporate Secretary,and Head of Global HR. Prior to Revel, she was at Franklin Templeton Companies, LLC where she served as SVP and Chief Legal Officer supporting 150 entities, 11,000 employees, in 42 countries for over 17 years. Christiana is admitted to The State Bar of California, The United States District Court for the Northern District of California, The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and has practiced before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She has also served on various corporate and charitable boards including Golden Gate University School of Law and Crystal Springs Uplands School.

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Vikas Garg

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.

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Edward Frye

Edward Frye

Chief Information Security Officer

Edward Frye is the Chief Information Security Officer at Aryaka Networks responsible for the company wide company-wide leadership of Aryaka’s information security program and collaborating with the industry leaders to share best practices on information security.

Frye is an information security leader with over 20 years of experience establishing cross-functional, practical security approaches that fit company culture and business goals. Prior to joining Aryaka, Frye was head of security at Elementum SCM, Inc., where he was responsible for establishing an Information Security Management System (ISMS) and obtaining ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification for the organization. Prior to Elementum, Edward built several information security programs for many SaaS companies, including BlueJeans, Valley Oak Systems, Ellie Mae and PaymentOne. He is currently a board member and president of the Silicon Valley chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).

Edward holds a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and a Master’s degree in Information Security and Assurance from Western Governors University.

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Vidyaranya Maddi

Vidyaranya Maddi

Senior Vice President Of Global Delivery & Support

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 8 years as VP of Customer Support and Service Delivery.

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Shailesh Shukla

Shailesh Shukla

Shailesh is the 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, and Merlin Systems. Shailesh is a Charter member of TiE and advises multiple startup companies. He currently sits on the board at bay.org, which runs the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco.

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Bob Kelly

Bob Kelly

Goldman Sachs

Bob has 20+ years of experience in a variety of product management/marketing and strategy positions at Microsoft, first as Corporate Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for the Enterprise Server business. Bob then became the first business leader on Microsoft Azure as Corporate Vice President for Azure’s first 5 years. Bob’s last role at Microsoft was Corporate Vice President for the Cloud + Enterprise Business Development and Strategy Team and was responsible for the merger and acquisition strategy and coordination of cross-division strategic planning. Prior to joining Goldman as an Operating Partner, Bob was a General Partner at Ignition Partners investing in enterprise software startups. Bob has served on the boards of Nimble Storage, Skytap, Trifacta, Shyft, Amplero, Aryaka, Striim as well as many non-profit boards.

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Jishnu Bhattacharjee

Jishnu Bhattacharjee

Nexus Venture Partners

Jishnu Bhattacharjee is Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners, a leading US – India venture capital firm, investing in innovative early to early-growth stage companies. Jishnu has invested in technology infrastructure, data, AI, SaaS and developer operations and is interested in a wide variety of start-ups. Jishnu’s current investments include Postman, Druva, H20.ai, Observe.ai, Minio, Kaltura, Blueshift, Jiffy.ai, and other exciting companies. His exited investments include Kaltura (Nasdaq: KLTR), Rancher (acquired by SUSE), Mezi (acquired by American Express), Cloud.com (acquired by Citrix), Gluster (acquired by Red Hat), Arkin (acquired by VMware) and Elastic Box (acquired by Century Link).

Jishnu holds MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, MS from Georgia Tech and BTech from IIT Kharagpur in electronics engineering. He is also an inventor on more than twenty US patents.

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Jim Smith

Jim Smith

General Partner, Mohr Davidow

Jim leads investments for Mohr Davidow in software and systems companies. He holds board seats with Mantara, PacketMotion, ParAccel, RingCube, and Xambala. Prior to Mohr Davidow, Jim developed computing architectures and integrated circuits for high performance multimedia systems at Silicon Graphics, Inc., including the multi-billion dollar revenue O2 and Octane workstation lines. He has authored and refereed numerous papers on computing systems and circuit design.

Jim received a doctorate in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in industrial management from Stanford University. He also earned a bachelor’s degree in computer systems engineering and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford.

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Khaled Nasr

Khaled Nasr

InterWest Partners

Khaled joined InterWest’s IT team in 2005 and focuses on investments in mobile, cloud and data center infrastructure, including systems, software and semiconductors.

Khaled is a board member of Aryaka, DataRPM, InVisage Technologies, NexPlanar, Pivot3, Quantance and Xirrus.

Prior to joining InterWest, Khaled invested in IT companies for Alta Partners where his investments included Synad (acquired by ST Microelectronics), Netli (acquired by Akamai), Celetronix (acquired by Jabil) and Occam Networks (OCNW; acquired by Calix). Prior to that, he spent 16 years in sales, marketing and general management positions with a succession of successful networking and telecommunications startups. He was president and chief executive officer of FlowWise Networks and general manager and vice president, International at Ipsilon. Before that, Khaled served as chief operating officer at Advanced Computer Communications (ACC), and as vice president of marketing and services with Premisys Communications. From 1987 to 1992, Khaled served as vice president of network services with Newbridge Networks. Khaled received his B.A. and M.A. in mathematics and social and political sciences from Cambridge University.

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Rob Schwartz

Rob Schwartz

Third Point Ventures

Since June 2000, Mr. Schwartz has been Managing Partner of Third Point Ventures, the Menlo Park, California based venture capital arm of Third Point LLC, which is a registered investment adviser based in New York and the investment manager of the Third Point Funds (AUM over $12B). Mr. Schwartz is presently a director of Kentik, Kumu Networks, Aryaka,  Upstart, Precision Hawk, R2 Semiconductor, SentinelOne, YellowBrick Data, Channel Medsystems, Oppilan, and Rubryc Therapeutics, . Previously he lead investments in Radia Communications (acquired by Texas Instruments), LitePoint (acquired by Teradyne), Global Locate (Acquired by Broadcom), EnPhase Energy (Nasdaq : ENPH), Apigee (Nasdaq:APIC, Acquired by Alphabet/GOOG), IQ Engines (Acquired by Yahoo!), Elastica (acquired by BlueCoat), Swift Financial (Acquired by PayPal), CloudVelox (acquired by VMWare), and Packet (acquired by Equinix). Robert Schwartz was named to the Annual Always On List Of Top 100 Venture Capitalists. Previously, for 23 years, Mr. Schwartz was the President of RF Associates North, a privately held communications semiconductor manufacturer’s representative firm. Mr. Schwartz holds a multi-discipline engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

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