Manoj Leelanivas, EVP, Worldwide Sales for Advanced Technologies

Manoj Leelanivas

Manoj Leelanivas serves as the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Advanced Technologies. The Advanced Technologies team focuses on driving sales of key growth areas for Juniper, including Data Center & Cloud, Mobility, Security, Content Delivery, and Packet/Optical convergence.

A 12-year Juniper veteran, Mr. Leelanivas most recently served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Junos Application Software Business Group, focused on the creation and delivery of software applications built on the Junos platform for Mobile Internet, Video Delivery and Cloud Services. Prior to this, Mr. Leelanivas served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Edge and Aggregation business unit for the Infrastructure Products Group (IPG), where he led the development and launch of Juniper's groundbreaking MX 3D Series Universal Edge Routers. Additionally, he was responsible for notable progress in Juniper's Project Falcon initiative.

During his tenure at Juniper Networks, Mr. Leelanivas served as Vice President of Product Line Management and Marketing within IPG, responsible for the Core, Edge and Aggregation router product lines, and as Vice President of Engineering also in IPG, responsible for Junos development. He also led various engineering, product management and marketing groups.

Prior to joining Juniper Networks, Mr. Leelanivas was at Cisco Systems for seven years, where he was involved in various initiatives in routing and voice technologies.

Mr. Leelanivas holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky, Lexington and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.