Neil Anderson has over 30 years of experience in software development and IT solutions. At WWT Neil is an VP in our Global Solutions and Architecture team, with responsibility for over $15B in WWT’s solutions portfolio across AI, Cloud, Networking, Security, Data Center, and Automation. Neil advises many large organizations on their global architecture and IT strategy across Global Enterprise, Global Service Provider, and Public Sector.

Kevin is the senior vice president of Networking at NVIDIA, joining from Mellanox Technologies where he was senior vice president of Marketing. He has been a founder or senior executive at five startups that have achieved positive outcomes. Combining both technical and business expertise, Deierling has variously served as the chief officer of technology, architecture, and marketing at these companies, where he led the development of strategy and products across a broad range of disciplines including networking, security, cloud, big data, virtualization, storage, smart energy, and DNA sequencing. Deierling has contributed to multiple technology standards and has over 25 patents in areas including wireless communications, error correction, security, video compression, and DNA sequencing. He is a contributing author of a text on BiCmos design. Kevin holds a BA in Solid State Physics from UC Berkeley.

Eric is a seasoned systems architect and Technology Fellow at Citi with over 28 years of experience, specializing in eTrading infrastructure. His passion for pushing technological boundaries fuels his work, where he continuously explores innovative ways to revolutionize eTrading systems. As Director of High Performance Architectures Infrastructure (HPAi), he is instrumental in driving technological advancements at Citi.

Beginning his career as a C developer for the Department of Defense, Eric progressed to aerospace R&D roles, earning top honors in Electrical Engineering. His career spans pivotal roles in networking startups and FinTech, most notably at Morgan Stanley, where he led global network instrumentation and TimeSync, and advised on strategic technology investments. Eric was honored with the title of STAC Fellow for his industry-leading contributions to Time Synchronization.

At Deutsche Bank, as a Distinguished Engineer, he architected comprehensive best in class eTrading infrastructure solutions driving down latency and improving PnL, and at a proprietary trading firm, he further honed his skills in driving technological innovation.

Eric serves on advisory boards for leading companies such as HPE, Dell, Lenovo, Equinix, AMD, Intel, Keysight, and Exegy, where he provides thought leadership, helps drive innovation and ensures alignment with Citi’s strategic objectives. He has worked extensively with companies to develop next-generation products and frequently participates in technical speaking panels at industry conferences. He is also on the A-Team Group Trading Technology Advisory Board. Renowned for his vision and expertise in low-latency technology, Eric remains committed to transforming Citi’s eTrading infrastructure into a powerful competitive advantage.

Murali Gandluru is the Vice President, Product Management Data Center Networking at Cisco. Prior to re-joining Cisco, Murali was the Vice President of Strategy (Product & GTM) for Software Networking Business Unit in the IBM Software group where he was presently responsible for delivering innovative application-centric, hybrid/multi-cloud networking products around automation, orchestration, observability, and connectivity.

Murali is a product executive with over 22 years of experience in building multiple billion-dollar product-line businesses in the infrastructure space spanning both public companies and startups, including: Arrcus, DuploCloud, Cisco: Nexus/ACI, ASR, and at Oracle. At Arrcus, he served as VP of Product Management/Marketing, a venture-backed firm that he helped launch out of stealth through Series A/B/C with a disruptive software-powered, open multi-domain networking solutions. He also served as Sr. Director of Product Mgmt. at Cisco Systems following the acquisition of the pioneering Software Defined Networking (SDN) startup Insieme Networks.

Murali has a MS in Computer Science from The Ohio State University and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Varanasi. He is an alumnus of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Ignite! startup program. In his spare time, Murali maintains a keen interest in soccer, music and theatre.

Par Botes rejoined Pure Storage after a 4 year stint in an AI startup as the Vice President for AI
Infrastructure. His prior roles at Pure Storage includes Head of Product Management of all
Pure products and services as well as head of Product and General Manager for Flashblade
from its inception to release. In his role as VP of AI Infrastructure, Par manages an engineering
team to deliver future product innovation.

Par has more than 35 years of IT experience specializing in large scale storage systems, online
transactional systems, very large databases, networking, storage technologies and data
protection. He is named as an inventor on nearly 50 issued patents relating to software and
data storage design and is a frequent industry speaker on system and storage architecture and
large-scale commercial systems.

Earlier in his career Par spent seven years as the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
for EMC Corporation for Asia Pacific and Japan, where he was responsible for technology
strategy and the development of regional products and initiatives. Notably, Par led the
development of several key initiatives including Symmetrix-C, later renamed to VMAX 10K,
founded the Defense, Safety and Security group within EMC and started the Japan Engineering
organization to support large Japanese customers and OEM’s.

Prior to EMC, Par spent eight years as the Director Technology Strategy, Data Center
Management Group at Symantec and VERITAS. Par founded Symantec’s Japan Engineering
Center focused on engineering specific to Japanese partners and customers.

Par has a degree in Telecommunications from his native home of Stockholm, Sweden.