Routes to Success in Software Defined Networking

Since the turn of the century, the founder and CEO of Apstra, a Silicon Valley networking software start-up advancing intent-based networking, has been influencing the way  data center networks are built and operated.Mansour Karam is an entrepreneur who clearly loves to build high tech digital infrastructure companies from the ground up, and has a track record to prove that with the right ideas and the right people, passion and commitment to quality, the creation of enormous enterprise value is not only possible, but probable.Prior to Apstra, Mansour contributed to several startups and led teams across engineering, product management, business development, and sales.By 2014, having subsequently developed vertical markets, marketing, sales and partnership strategies and establishing global business alliances, Arista Networks (ANET) went on to become a public company in 2014 with a $4B valuation. Arista Networks’ valuation continued to continue steadily and is close to $20B today.