AI Unbound: Your Data Center, Your Way

Rami Rahim is Chief Executive Officer of Juniper Networks and a member of the company's Board of Directors. Rahim was appointed CEO in November 2014.

Rahim 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. Rahim 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.

He most recently served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Juniper Development and Innovation (JDI) organization, overseeing the company's entire product and technology portfolio. His responsibilities included driving strategy, development and business growth for routing, switching, security, silicon technology, and the Junos operating system.

Other leadership positions held over the years include: Executive Vice President and General Manager of Platform Systems Division for routing and switching, Senior Vice President of the Edge and Aggregation Business Unit (EABU), and Vice President and General Manager of EABU.

Rahim earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He completed an intensive six-week executive program at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Rahim is a named inventor on 20 U.S. Patents granted in networking technologies and is a member of IEEE.

Rahim is also a member of the Board of Directors for Autodesk, a global leader in design software.

In his role as Chief Technology Officer, Raj Yavatkar is responsible for charting Juniper's technology strategy. He leads and executes the company’s critical innovations and products for intelligent self-driving networks, security, Mobile Edge Cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration, and hybrid cloud.

A technology and products pioneer throughout his career, Yavatkar has envisioned how emerging technologies can be applied to creatively solve enterprise and business problems ahead of competitors to help establish new product lines.

Before joining Juniper, Yavatkar was at Google (GCP), where he led a large team of engineers to deliver cloud networking infrastructure solutions for Google Cloud customers. Prior to that at VMware, he ideated a new product concept to address the private/hybrid cloud markets by defining VMware Cloud Foundation—an easy way to deploy and manage virtual clouds—leading a large product team to successfully deliver product to market. He started his career at Intel, rising to the position of Intel Fellow, a position he held for 10 years. During his various leadership roles there, Raj was responsible for driving new product and R&D initiatives in many areas of software.

Yavatkar brings a wealth of experience in emerging technologies. He has been awarded more than 45 patents, published over 60 research papers, authored 5 Internet standards, and co-authored a book on internet quality of service. He is an IEEE Fellow and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Mark Papermaster is Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President responsible for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) technical direction and product development. He led the re-design of engineering processes at AMD and the development of the award-winning “Zen” high-performance x86 CPU family, high-performance GPUs and the company’s modular design approach, Infinity Architecture. He also oversees Information Technology (IT) that delivers AMD’s compute infrastructure and services.

Praful Lalchandani is VP of Product, Data Center Platforms and AI solutions, at Juniper Networks and leads the team focusing on the Data Center business and portfolio. Praful is a 19-year veteran in the networking industry with experience in building networking products and solutions for cloud, service provider and enterprise use cases.

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.

Ram Velaga is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Core Switching Group at Broadcom, responsible for the company’s extensive Ethernet switch portfolio serving broad markets including the service provider, data center and enterprise segments. Prior to joining Broadcom in 2012, he served in a variety of product management roles at Cisco Systems, including Vice President of Product Management for the Data Center Technology Group.

Bratin Saha is the Chief Product and Technology Officer of DigitalOcean. He leads product strategy, development, infrastructure, and security with a focus on making DigitalOcean the best cloud for developers and growing technology businesses. Prior to DigitalOcean, Bratin Saha served as Vice President and General Manager of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Data Infrastructure at Amazon Web Services.

As SVP of Engineering at Vultr, Nathan Goulding leads the engineering and technical product management teams. Before Vultr, Nathan served as Sr. Director of Cross-Product Platform Engineering at Equinix and Chief Architect of Equinix Metal—joining Equinix during the Packet acquisition in March 2020, where Nathan served as the technical point-of-contact during the diligence and closing processes.

Kevin is a 25+ year pioneer of the digital experience space. Kevin co-founded his first start-up, Interwoven, in 1996, pioneered open-source content management at Alfresco in 2006, and built a global leader in digital experience management as CMO of Day Software and later Adobe. Now at Vultr, Kevin works to build Vultr's global brand presence as a leader in the independent Cloud platform market.

Tom Newell is the Corporate Vice President of Datacenter Cluster Systems Solutions Engineering at AMD. He has over 25 years’ experience leading engineering design teams and managing complex semiconductor and computer system development and integration programs. Prior to his role at AMD, he served as the VP of Network and Hardware R&D at Cray Inc.