Jayshree Ullal, also known as Jayshree Vedantham Ullal, is an Indian-American businesswoman. She is the CEO of Arista Networks. She goes by various names such as Jayshree G Ullal, J Ullal, G Ullal, and V Ullal.
Wiki/Biography
Jayshree Ullal was born on Monday, March 27, 1961, in London (60 years old in 2021). She spent the first 5 years of her life in London before moving to India to study ger at Covent of Jesus & Marry in New Delhi. She received her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from San Francisco State University and her master’s degree in engineering management from Santa Clara University.
Jayshree Ullal with her sister in childhood
appearance
Height (approximate): 5′ 6″
Eye color: light brown
Hair color: Black
family
Parents and siblings
Jayshree’s father, Sudarajan Vedantham (a physicist), and her mother, Nirmala Vedantham, are two of the founders of the Indian Institutes of Technology, a group of higher education centers established to train scientists and engineers after India gained independence from British colonial rule in 1947.
Jayshree Ullal with her sister and parents
She had an older sister, Susie Nagpal, who died of lung cancer in 2010.
Relationships, husbands and children
Jayshree Ullal married Vijay Ullal, also a businessman, on May 15. The couple has two daughters, Adeeti Ullal and Tarini Ullal.
Jayshree Ullal with her husband and daughter
Profession
Jayshree started her career as a chip designer at a semiconductor company, developing high-speed chips for big companies like IBM and Hitachi. She worked in the semiconductor industry for 11 years. In 1988, she joined Ungermann-Bass, where she developed a keen interest in marketing. The company had an annual turnover of $40 million by developing and selling networking products. Soon, Ullal planned to join a startup, Crescendo Communications. In 1993, the company was acquired by Cisco Systems. At that time, Cisco was a well-known company. As an executive at Cisco, she managed Cisco’s business in key enterprise markets, including wiring closet switching, data center backbones for increasing layer 2-3 convergence, and customer premises equipment for remote WAN access. Cisco was emerging as one of the leading companies in the LAN switching business, with annual sales of $5 million. She also served as senior vice president of the data center and switching business and oversaw more than 20 mergers and acquisitions. Later, she exited the company in 2008 and joined Arista Networks. Arista Networks co-founders Andy Bechtolsheim and David Cheriton appointed Jayshree Ullal as CEO and President of Arista Networks in October 2008. Initially, when Jayshree joined the company, it was only 4 years old, had 50 employees, and had low revenue. In June 2014, the company successfully went public, increasing its market value from $2.7 billion to $20 billion under the ticker symbol ANET. In addition, Arista is a cloud networking company responsible for deploying 10/25/40/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet networks in data centers.
Jayshree Ullal and her team at Arista Networks
Awards
- 2015 Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year”
- 2018 Barron’s “World’s Best CEO”
- One of Fortune’s “Top 20 Business People” in 2019
- 2013 San Francisco State University Alumni Award
- 2016 SUSTech Alumni Award
- VMWorld 2011 Top 10 Executives
- 2008 Security CSO Most Influential Women Award
- In 2001, she was named one of the 20 most influential women to watch by Newsweek.
- 2001 InformationWeek Innovator and Influencer Award
- First woman to receive the Entrepreneurship and Leadership Award from Silicon Valley India in 1999
- 2013 Santa Clara University College of Engineering Award Winner
- The World’s Best CEOs: Growth Leaders 2018
- Named to Barron’s list of “World’s Best CEOs” in 2018 and 2019
- No. 18 on Fortune’s Business Person of the Year list in 2019
Note: She has received various awards and assignments associated with her name.
Facts/Trivia
- According to Forbes, Jayshree Ullal’s net worth is $1.5 billion (INR 1,09,45,53,75,000).
- She is also listed as the 60th richest self-made woman in the United States, according to Forbes. In an interview, speaking about being a female entrepreneur, she quoted,
You need to be tenacious and never give up despite setbacks. Being a woman in a male-dominated field like tech is not a barrier in fast-innovating industries like high-tech. Talent is highly valued and as women we have complementary instincts and intuitions.”
- According to her, one of the most difficult times in Jayshree’s life was the loss of her sister, Susie Nagpal, who was diagnosed with lung cancer. After her sister’s death, Jayshree founded the SITA Foundation in her memory to provide funds to cancer patients and those suffering from the disease. In an interview, she spoke about the pain of losing her sister and said:
My sister Susie died of lung cancer at the age of 46. I worked at her bedside for several months, and one of the most valuable lessons she taught me was to deeply value our lives and the connections we make. After Susie’s death, my family set up the SITA Women’s Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting the education of girls internationally, especially in areas where schooling is difficult. SITA also funds cancer research.
- Forbes listed Jayshree as one of the “Five Most Influential People in Networking” for her work at Arista Networks and included her in its list of the world’s 72 self-made billionaires. She also owns 5% of Arista Networks.
- Jayshree Ullal performs a duet of “Zoobie Doobie” with husband Vijay Ullal on Saratoga’s Got Talent on January 14, 2012.
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