Umesh Mahajan

VP & GM Application Networking and Security Division @ Broadcom

About

Senior technology business executive with both entrepreneurial and general management skills. Strong strategic vision, results oriented operational execution, portfolio and P&L management and effective collaboration skills. Deep expertise in next gen cloud data centers (private & public cloud), IaaS, L2-L7 Software Defined Networking, Security and Load Balancing. Managing worldwide 1500+ development and product management multi site team at VMware.

Country

United States

City

Cupertino

Industry

Computer Networking

Skill

Data Center, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Switches, Storage, Go-to-market Strategy, Cisco Nexus, Security, Ethernet, Operating Systems, SAN, High Availability, FCoE, Data Centre Architecture, Cisco Technologies, Networking, Private Cloud, Network Infrastructure, Business Strategy, Unified Communications

Experience

VP & GM Application Networking and Security Division

Broadcom

2023-11 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

Palo Alto, California, United States

SVP/GM NSBU Software Defined Networking, Security and Load Balancing

VMware

2019-1 - 2023-11 · 4 yrs 11 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for NSX product line, software defined L2-L7 integrated networking services that provide connectivity, security and load balancing for private and public clouds including multi cloud networking and security.

VP/GM NSX Networking and Security (SDN)

VMware

2016-6 - 2018-12 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Chief Strategy Officer and Co-founder

VMware Avi Load Balancer

2015-9 - 2016-5 · 9 mos

Strategy, partnerships and customer relationships.

CEO and Co-founder

VMware Avi Load Balancer

2012-11 - 2015-9 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Strategy and vision for product along with business plan to build disruptive Software Defined Application Services platform for agile cloud infrastructure deployments. The product architecture encompasses SDN/NFV/SDI paradigms, centralized controller for management with a distributed data plane in conjunction with built in application analytics and insights. Secured Series A and B round funding for the company. Recruited talented team that built innovative next generation Application Services product that runs in VMware, OpenStack, bare metal and Docker/Mesosphere container environments. Drove GTM strategy and launched company in Dec 2014. Established healthy sales and pipeline for Avi product.

VP/GM , Data Center Switching

Cisco

2007-8 - 2012-11 · 5 yrs 4 mos

Responisble for Nexus 7000, MDS, NX-OS and DCNM. Driving multi billion dollar business and innovative development for cloud infrastructure Data Center platforms and solutions.

VP of Engineering

Cisco

2004-2 - 2007-7 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Responsible for NX-OS for Nexus 7000 and MDS platforms. Development of L2 and L3 protocols/features, Switch Virtualization, Security/Encrption, Storage features, etc.