Leadership

Rami Rahim is Chief Executive Officer of Juniper Networks and a member of the company's Board of Directors. Rahim was appointed CEO in November 2014.

Pradeep Sindhu founded Juniper Networks in February 1996, and has held several central roles in shaping the company. He currently serves as Chief Scientist and served as Chief Technology Officer for over 20 years and as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for eight months when he founded the company. During that time, he played a central role in the architecture, design, and development of the M40 router.

Eva has responsibility for charting our global people strategy, fostering diversity, inclusion, and growth among our most important asset, our employees. She leads the human resources organization and the Juniper Networks Foundation Fund, which inspires the next generation of engineers and innovators.

Anand "Andy" Athreya is Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer. In this role, he is responsible for Juniper's Engineering organization. He also oversees initiatives that are transforming Juniper's R&D and test environments.

Dr. David Cheriton serves as Chief Data Center Scientist. He has more than 40 years’ experience in software, distributed systems and networking, including over 35 years as Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He has founded several companies in the networking space, seed funded a number of significant companies including Google, VMware and Arista and served as chief scientist and technical advisor in several companies. Prior to Juniper, he was co-founder, chief scientist and CEO of Apstra, which was acquired by Juniper.

As Juniper’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Kevin Hutchins is responsible for defining and enabling Juniper’s strategic corporate vision. This includes driving the company’s inorganic growth through strategic partnerships, venture investments and acquisitions/divestures.

As Senior Vice President of Customer Services and Support, Derrell James is charged with developing an innovative services-led strategy and engagement model that helps customers solve their toughest business challenges. He is responsible for strategic, financial and operational leadership for Juniper’s four service lines of business. These services include maintenance services, advanced services - a high-touch, premium support offering, a rapidly expanding professional services organization and educational services.

Marcus Jewell is EVP, Chief Sales Officer of Juniper Networks. He was formerly general manager for Juniper’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) business, where he was responsible for Juniper’s sales operations across the region, including its go-to-market and channel strategies.

As Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, Manoj Leelanivas leads all aspects of product strategy and direction for Juniper, including the transformative AI-driven enterprise business unit which is powered by the Mist acquisition. Leelanivas is also responsible for all marketing operations and aligning products with our go-to-market strategies and execution.

Sharon Mandell is the Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer leading Juniper’s global information technology team. In this role, she leads the ongoing enhancement of the company’s IT infrastructure and applications architectures to support the growth objectives of the company. She and her team are also responsible for showcasing Juniper’s use of its technologies to the world.

Brian M. Martin is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Juniper Networks. He brings nearly 20 years of corporate legal experience in the technology industry, most recently serving as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at KLA-Tencor Corporation. He also spent 10 years in senior legal positions at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Martin currently serves on the Board of Directors of Family Supportive Housing, a non-profit organization that provides shelter and supportive services to homeless families.

Ken Miller is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Juniper Networks. Miller leads the company's finance and accounting functions as well as manufacturing operations, real estate, investor relations and internal audit.

Athena owns large-scale, corporate operations transformations that accelerate growth for Juniper. She drives initiatives to ensure strategic alignment across the company, end-to-end business execution, and proactive identification and mitigation of potential enterprise-level risks. Athena leads the Juniper Transformation Office, a team of operational transformation experts focused on holistic solutions that balance simplicity with impact.

In his role as Chief Technology Officer, Raj Yavatkar is responsible for charting Juniper's technology strategy. He leads and executes the company’s critical innovations and products for intelligent self-driving networks, security, Mobile Edge Cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration, and hybrid cloud.

Debashis Basu is Senior Vice President of Engineering and leads Juniper’s Silicon and Systems Technologies organization. In this role, Basu is responsible for all ASIC development as well as providing all technology solutions for Juniper systems, including signal integrity, mechanical, thermal, power supply and more. Previously Basu served as Vice President of ASIC development.

Sujai Hajela is currently Senior Vice President, AI-Driven Enterprise at Juniper Networks and is focused on ushering the network for the next decade – the AI-Driven Enterprise. Prior to Juniper, he was co-founder, president and CEO of Mist Systems, a pioneer in AI-Driven operations for Wi-Fi. Previously to Mist, Hajela held senior-level roles across data center networking, campus networking (including wired and wireless LAN), and enterprise routing.

Dr. Kireeti Kompella is Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Juniper's engineering team. Before taking on his current role, he served as CTO, SDN at Juniper Networks. Previously, Kompella was CTO at Contrail Systems, which was acquired by Juniper in December 2012. Prior to joining Contrail, he was CTO and Chief Architect, Junos at Juniper Networks.

Mike Marcellin is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, leading the global marketing team responsible for marketing Juniper's product and services portfolio and stewarding the brand, driving preference for Juniper in the market, training our partners and account teams, and developing a differentiated information experience for our customers. Before joining the global marketing organization, Marcellin led business strategy and marketing for Juniper's industry-leading portfolio of high-performance routing, switching and security products.

As the Senior Vice President of Supply Chain Operations at Juniper, Brad is responsible for the strategic design and management of a global supply chain network that provides differentiated services to Juniper, its customers and partners, while enabling the realization of cutting-edge technology to power the next generation of networking. Brad leads with a customer-first mindset that ensures an unparalleled customer and partner experience.