Douglas Gourlay

Douglas Gourlay

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President and Chief Executive Officer
Seattle, Washington, United States

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  • Qumulo
    President and Chief Executive Officer
    Qumulo
    Jul 2024 - Current (2 years 1 month)
    At Qumulo, the role of President and CEO is about leading a movement, not managing a company. The mission is audacious: to unify the world’s data—any data, in any location, with total control—and to end the era of balkanized storage that fragments innovation. This is not incremental progress; it’s a revolution in how the enterprise thinks about information, collaboration, and computation. The CEO defines the strategic vision that fuses cloud-native scale with exabyte performance, drives the strategic partnerships that make Qumulo the connective tissue of the world’s data ecosystem, and inspires teams to believe they are building something as transformative for enterprise infrastructure as the iPhone was for personal computing. As CEO, I ha
  • Arista Networks
    Executive Advisor
    Arista Networks
    Jun 2024 - Current (2 years 2 months)
    Stepping into an advisory role with Arista where I will spend some time ensuring continued intellectual property development, advise on development of systems-level integrations between adjacent technology areas, and maintain my personal passion for simplifying and streamlining network operations and engineering through software-based systems such as AVD and our Network CI Pipelines.
  • Arista Networks
    VP/GM, Software Products
    Arista Networks
    Dec 2018 - Jun 2024 (5 years 7 months)
    Executive and General Manager responsible for the product lifecycle (from organic or M&A development through to GTM and customer fulfillment) of the Arista software portfolio. This includes product lines in: Network Observability, AI-NetOps, WAN Routing, Product Security, Network CI Pipelines and Automation, Cloud Connectivity, Cloud Fabric topology composition, and the Enterprise WAN hardware and software portfolio for traditional routing and SD-WAN. Other areas of responsibility include looking after corporate M&A strategy and deal flow and executive sponsorship for our Global Financial, US/UK Federal/Defense, and Media and Entertainment customer segments.
  • CaptureProposal
    Executive Advisor / Investor
    CaptureProposal
    Jan 2018 - May 2019 (1 year 5 months)
  • Ordr
    Advisor / Investor
    Ordr
    Jan 2017 - Jan 2019 (2 years 1 month)
  • Juniper Apstra
    Advisor / Investor
    Juniper Apstra
    Oct 2016 - Dec 2018 (2 years 3 months)
  • Skyport Systems
    Corporate Vice President
    Skyport Systems
    Oct 2014 - Sep 2016 (2 years)
    Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Systems Engineering, and Customer Success. Responsible for all customer facing activities and building a team of individuals who put customer success first, build and define great products, are not afraid to disrupt existing markets and business models, and want to work with other like-minded people willing to take calculated risks to achieve amazing results.
  • Arista Networks
    Vice President of Marketing and Systems Engineering
    Arista Networks
    Jul 2009 - Sep 2014 (5 years 3 months)
    Responsible for leading marketing, technical marketing, systems engineering, strategic alliances, business/corporate development, and several product management areas. Also, built and led the Federal and Service Provider sales areas and was the executive sponsor for the global financial services customers.
  • Cisco
    Vice President, Data Center Product Management and Marketing
    Cisco
    Jan 2007 - Dec 2009 (3 years)
    Built and led Product Marketing and Product Management for Cisco's Data Center product lines. Main product areas of responsibility included: Nexus Family, Catalyst 6500 Series, Server Load Balancing, WAN Optimization, Storage Networking, UCS Compute Launch and Introduction to Market.
  • Cisco
    Sr. Director/Director, Product Management
    Cisco
    Jan 2004 - Dec 2007 (4 years)
    Cisco Nexus 7000 Product Development, Marketing, and overall Data Center Strategy Development
  • Cisco
    Senior Product Line Manager and Consulting Systems Engineer
    Cisco
    Jan 1998 - Aug 2004 (6 years 8 months)
    Catalyst 6500 Gen 2/3 Development, Cisco Nexus Concept and Product Planning, and Application Delivery Controllers
  • US ARMY
    Infantry Officer
    US ARMY
    Jan 1992 - Dec 2000 (9 years)
    US Army Infantry Officer (Airborne)
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  • Norwich University
    CyberSecurity and Information Warfare
    Norwich University
    Jan 2016 - Dec 2018 (3 years)
  • Auburn University
    Political Science
    Auburn University
    Jan 1992 - Dec 1994 (3 years)
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      From Wall Street to the military: Advances in FPGA switching technology and software-to-hardware development tools facil
      Military Embedded Systems
      Jun 2012
      Low-latency technology "paid for" by Wall Street traders seeking microsecond advantages is trickling up to the military.
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      The Coming Network Revolution
      Future In Review Panel Moderator
      May 2009
      A panel discussion with Erik Giesa, VP, Product Management and Product Marketing, F5 Networks; Doug Gourlay, VP, Data Center Solutions, Cisco; Richard Kagan, VP Marketing, Infoblox; and Mark Thiele, Director, Business Operations for R&D, VMware; hosted by Greg Ness, Senior Director, Infoblox
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