Ash Bhalgat is an accomplished hi-tech industry leader focussed on the intersection of technology, products and markets. He has passion for leading innovative and dyanmic technology organizations to drive vision, strategy, execution and marketing of hardware, software and cloud products and solutions. Ash has deep experience in building and marketing high impact, fast revenue growth technology products and solutions at large, mid-size and startup companies (Cisco, Mellanox, Polycom and Hapoose), across diverse domains including Cloud, Software Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization, Routing, Switching, WAN, Wi-Fi, Unified Communication and Collaboration, Network Management, Mobile Apps and End User Devices.

Ash holds a B.E. is Electrical Engineering from Unviersity of Pune (India), M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Cincinnati and M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. Currently, Ash is a Senior Director of Cloud Marketing at Mellanox and leads cloud market strategy, outbound marketing and open-source & partner ecosystem engagements for cloud service providers (SaaS, PaaS and IaaS) and telco cloud market segments.

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