Todd Ellison is the Field CTO for Nile, a campus networking platform built on a fully vertically integrated, cloud-managed, and secure-by-default architecture. With three decades of experience across operations, consulting, and executive roles in the networking industry, Todd has spent his career at the intersection of how networks are designed, sold, and operated, giving him a firsthand view of where complexity actually originates.

At Nile, Todd works with IT and security leadership to show how a fundamentally different approach to campus networking maps to the problems they’re already trying to solve. His current focus includes network-layer enforcement as a foundation for AI governance, the architectural requirements of agentic workload containment, and why deterministic, homogeneous infrastructure produces fundamentally better data for AI-driven operations than heterogeneous environments ever will.