Shekar Ayyar
Chief Executive Officer at Arrcus
San Jose, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2021 - Current
Arrcus was founded to enhance business efficiency through superior network connectivity. The company's mission with Arrcus Connected Edge is to offer the best-in-class networking software with the most flexible consumption model at the lowest TCO. The Arrcus team consists of world-class technologists who have an unparalleled record in building industry leading networking products.
Arrcus is a hyper-scale network app that provides software-powered transformations in networks for the interconnected world.
Raised $168,000,000.00 from Liberty Global, General Catalyst, NVIDIA, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Hitachi Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures and Clear Ventures.
Board Member
2021
Altair Engineering, Inc. provides enterprise analytics, engineering, and on-demand computing software technologies. Its technology.
Raised $37,292,231.00 from Advanced Propulsion Centre UK, Innovate UK and UK Research and Innovation.
Venture Partner
2021
NTTVC is an independent venture capital firm formed in collaboration with NTT.
Chief Executive Officer
2021
SPAC focused on the convergence of Communications and Cloud, catalyzed by 5G and Edge Computing
EVP and GM, Telco and Edge Cloud
2019 - 2021
Passionate about leading the Telco and Communications Service Provider industry to a new level of agility and efficiency using software defined cloud infrastructure for Core, Edge, RAN and Private 5G use cases.
EVP Strategy and Corp. Dev., and General Manager, Telco Group
2007 - 2019
General Manager, Telco Group (NFV). Manage and run M&A, investments, and other corporate business development. Lead corporate strategy. Nov. 2016 - Present: EVP and GM, Telco Group; Strategy and Corporate Development Jan 2015 - Oct. 2016: Corp. SVP Strat. and Corp Dev., GM Telco NFV Group Jan 2010 - Dec. 2014: SVP Strategy and Corp Dev June 2007 - Dec. 2009: VP Alliances
VMware Cloud allows users to run, manage, connect and secure an entire portfolio on any cloud to any device.
Managing Partner
2006 - 2007
C-level strategy and execution consulting for infrastructure technology companies like Adaptec.
Senior VP Product Management, Services
2004 - 2006
Led Product Management and Services Business for publicly traded security compliance software company. Acquired by Symantec.
SVP, Marketing and Bus Dev
2000 - 2004
Managed marketing and business development for venture-funded start-up in the San Francisco bay area. Project and Resource Management Application built using an organically developed rapid application creation platform. (Subsequently acquired by Oracle).
Director, Business Development
1998 - 2000
Led Lucent's strategic business development work with key technology partners, as part of the Strategy and Corporate Business Development team.
Consultant
1996 - 1998
Strategy consultant for technology and telecommunications clients
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity