TiE My Story: Keerti Melkote: Enterprise Mobility Companies

About the Event

How do you deliver the best possible wireless experience to the new mobile generation? This is what Keerti and his team embarked on delivering by founding Aruba in 2002 to liberate businesses from the last wired barriers and also taking it public in 2007. Aruba currently has over $700M in revenue and market capitalization exceeding $2 Billion dollars. Aruba helps businesses engage #GenMobile with exactly what they need, at exactly the right time, no matter what the device or location. With its Mobility-Defined Networks™, Aruba helps businesses solve some of their biggest mobility challenges and untether possibilities. It automates performance optimization and security actions that used to require IT intervention, so the network engineer can stop being the IT authority and become the IT ally. With Aruba, businesses can rightsize their fixed network infrastructure, save IT time, slash capital and operating costs, and deliver the mobile experience that #GenMobile expects. Join us to hear this inspiring talk from an amazingly successful entrepreneur, ask all your questions, learn from his successful experiences and connect with other aspiring entrepreneurs at TiE office on Tuesday October 7, 2014. About Keerti Melkote Keerti Melkote is the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Aruba Networks. He started Aruba Networks in 2002 with a vision to enable mobility for enterprises of all sizes. This started with the creation of Aruba’s secure mobility platform for deploying enterprise-scale wireless LANs. He led Aruba through its IPO offering in 2007 and continues to guide Aruba’s strategic direction as it grows and expands into the leading provider of enterprise mobility solutions. Prior to founding Aruba, he held leadership roles in product management, technology marketing and engineering at Cisco, Intel and leading networking startups such as Shasta Networks. He received his MSEE from Purdue University and B.Tech in ECE from JNTU, Hyderabad. He has been granted multiple patents for innovations in the field of networking and communications and was honored by Purdue University as an Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineer in 2009. He serves as an adviser and an angel investor to multiple silicon valley startups that are applying technology to transform many diverse industries including wireless, security, datacenter, social networking, healthcare, sports and construction. Sign up Now So you want to know how he did it. What are his secrets and learning that you can apply in your business? Then come and join us for this inspiring talk on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at the TiE office. TiE Host: Naveen Bisht, Chair, My Story and Chair, Programs/Board Member, TiE Silicon Valley Schedule: 6:00 PM - Registration, Dinner & Networking 7:00 PM - Program 8:15 PM - Q & A 9:00 PM- Adjourn For more information contact: Vanessa Zucker -vanessa@tie.org Introducing My Story – another TiE SV Original Program This talk is part of TiE SV’s monthly program “My Story – Inspiring Journey of an Entrepreneur.” My Story celebrates entrepreneurship and bring stories from successful entrepreneurs in their own words. The invited speaker(s) share their entrepreneurial journey and talk about lessons learnt, mistakes they wish they avoided, and key decisions that helped make their venture successful.