Keerti Melkote

Founder, Products and Partnerships

Keerti Melkote is Aruba's chief technology officer and responsible for product management. Mr. Melkote has 15 years of technology and marketing experience in both enterprise and service provider networking. Prior to founding Aruba Networks, Mr. Melkote held senior management positions at Tahoe Networks, a cellular/3G data networking systems company now part of Nokia, and Shasta Networks, a broadband IP subscriber management systems company now part of Nortel. Mr. Melkote was at Cisco Systems during the LAN switching era in the mid-90s, where he was responsible for the definition and launch of Cisco's high-end enterprise LAN switching systems. Before Cisco, Mr. Melkote was responsible for deploying high-performance LAN and ATM backbone infrastructure at Intel. He holds an MSEE from Purdue University with an emphasis on distributed systems and TCP/IP networking.