AI-Native NOW: The Next Era

Rami Rahim is Chief Executive Officer of Juniper Networks and a member of the company's Board of Directors. Rami began his Juniper career in early 1997, as employee No. 32, and worked as an engineer on Juniper's first breakthrough product, the M40 core router. Rami has progressed through a series of technical and leadership roles at Juniper, applying his engineering acumen to the design and development of Juniper's industry-leading product portfolio.

Jean English is Chief Marketing Officer, leading an award-winning global marketing organization that is highly data-driven, results-oriented, ROI-focused and plays a strategic role in Juniper’s growth. Jean has extensive career experience in driving unprecedented growth across all business verticals, as customers increasingly look to cloud-delivered, AI-driven and secure solutions to power their strategic evolution toward delivering better digital experiences.

Shishir Singh joined Juniper Networks as Senior Vice President and GM for Core Technologies and Security. A seasoned senior executive, Shishir has published and presented multiple academic papers for IEEE and holds several patents in the areas of Neural Networks, Artificial Intelligence, and behavior-based modeling for malware analysis.

Praveen Jain, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Juniper Networks, is a 25-year veteran in technology, networking, and cloud. Praveen has consistently driven innovation and successful product execution as the founder of several successful technology ventures. Most recently, Praveen was the founder and CEO of Witesand, which was acquired by Juniper in 2022.

Jeff Aaron serves as Juniper’s Global Vice President of Product Marketing, where he is responsible for messaging and positioning Juniper’s entire product portfolio. He has over 30 years of experience marketing in the high tech space, having worked at various software, networking and telecommunications companies.

Sudheer Matta is GVP of Products for Juniper’s Campus & Branch Portfolio, responsible for product strategy and roadmap for Wi-Fi, Switching, and Branch routing portfolio. Prior to this, Sudheer was VP Products at Mist Systems, a disruptive startup that brought AI to Wi-Fi market.

Sally Bament is Group Vice President of Global Field & Industry marketing with Juniper Networks. She brings 30 of experience in marketing, communications, product management, business development, and M&A in the networking, telecommunications and cloud industries, having served in executive leadership positions with companies ranging from small high-tech startups to large-cap market leaders.

AE Natarajan is Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, where he is responsible for Juniper's Engineering organization. Before Juniper, AE was the EVP, Head of Worldwide Engineering at Polycom, responsible for all product development, project management and engineering operations.

Sunalini Sankhavaram, VP Product Management, has been in the networking industry for more than a decade, managing varied portfolios encompassing enterprise wireless networks, network management, enterprise MDM, security and network access technologies as well as indoor locationing solutions and analytics platforms and now driving forward with customer/user experience centric AI powered cloud native network operations and line of business services delivering the network for the next decade.

Bob Friday is the co-founder of Mist Systems and currently serves as the Chief AI Officer at Juniper Networks and CTO of Juniper’s enterprise business following Juniper’s acquisition of Mist. Bob started his career in wireless at Metricom (Ricochet wireless network) developing and deploying wireless mesh networks across the country to connect the first generation of Internet browsers.

Brandon Butler is a Senior Research Manager with IDC’s Network Infrastructure group covering Enterprise Networks. His research focuses on market and technology trends, forecasts and competitive analysis in enterprise campus and branch networks.