notredamebusiness's video: Tom Mendoza Presents Jayshree Ullal President and CEO of Arista: Interview Advice

Tom Mendoza Presents is a webinar series hosted by Tom Mendoza, former president and vice chairman, NetApp, current board director of UiPath, Varonis and Vast Data. Join Tom as he interviews top business executives about their journey to success, what they learned along the way in forging great companies and their advice to students and professionals as they build their careers. As president and CEO of computer networking company Arista Networks for 12 years, Jayshree Ullal is responsible for Arista’s business and strategic leadership in cloud networking. She led the company to a historic and successful IPO in June 2014 from zero to a multibillion-dollar business and Arista’s entry into the S&P 500 in 2018. Ullal formerly was senior vice president at Cisco, responsible for a $10B business in datacenter, switching and services. With more than three decades of networking and executive experience, she is the recipient of numerous awards including E&Y’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2015, Barron’s “World’s Best CEOs” in 2018 and one of Fortune’s “Top 20 Business persons” in 2019. Ullal holds a B.S. in Engineering (Electrical) and an M.S. degree in engineering management and recipient of the SFSU and SCU Distinguished Alumni Awards in 2013 and 2016.