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Krish Ramakrishnan

Krish Ramakrishnan

CEO, BlueJeans Network
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Ramakrishnan brings more than 20 years of successful leadership and innovation to Blue Jeans Network. A serial entrepreneur, Ramakrishnan has been founder and CEO of several successful startup ventures. Prior to Blue Jeans, he was an Entrepeneur-In-Residence (EIR) at Accel Partners, where he was exploring HD video technologies including the current idea behind Blue Jeans. Before that, Ramakrishnan was the General Manager for the Server Virtualization business unit at Cisco Systems, responsible for architecting Cisco's datacenter and desktop virtualization solutions. Prior to his work at Cisco, Ramakrishnan was the CEO of Topspin Communications. Under his stewardship, the company re-invented itself as a datacenter virtualization player and executed strategic partnerships with IBM, Dell, HP, and Sun.

Topspin was acquired by Cisco in 2005. Before joining Topspin, Ramakrishnan was the vice president and general manager for the Content Business Unit at Cisco Systems. Under his leadership, Cisco developed many industry-leading products including the L4-L7 load balancers, content caches, CDN, and micro-webservers. Ramakrishnan joined Cisco in 1995 when his first startup, Internet Junction, was acquired by them. Earlier in his career, Ramakrishnan worked for NET, PeerLogic, Bell Labs, and Perkin-Elmer. He has an MSCS from Monmouth University and a BS (Physics) from Madras University, India.

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