Jayashree Ullal, also known as Jayashree Vedantam Ullal, is an Indian-American businesswoman. She is best known as the Chief Executive Officer of Arista Networks. She is known by many names like Jayashree G Ullal, J Ullal, G Ullal and V Ullal.
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Wiki/Biography
Jayashree Ullal was born on Monday, 27 March 1961 (age 60 years; as in 2021) in London. She spent the first 5 years of her life in London and later came to India and pursued her graduation at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, New Delhi. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from San Francisco State University and a master’s degree in engineering management from Santa Clara University.
Childhood picture of Jayshree Ullal with her sister
Physical Appearance
Height (Approx): 5′ 6″
Eye colour: Light brown
Hair Color: Black
Family
parents and siblings
Jayashree’s father’s name is Sudarajan Vedantam (Physicist) and mother’s name is Nirmala Vedantam. His father is considered one of the founders of the Indian Institute of Technology, a group of higher education centers established in India to train scientists and engineers after India gained independence from the British colony in 1947.
Jayshree Ullal with her sister and parents
He had a sister, Susie Nagpal, who died of lung cancer in 2010.
Relationships, Husband and Children
Jayashree Ullal married Vijay Ullal, who is a businessman by profession, on May 15. The couple is blessed with two daughters, Aditi Ullal and Tarini Ullal.
Jayashree Ullal with her husband and daughters
livelihood
Jayshree gave a start to her career by working as a chip designer in a semiconductor company and developing high-speed chips for large organizations like IBM and Hitachi. He worked in the semiconductor industry for 11 years. In 1988, she moved to Ungermann-Bas as she developed her interest in marketing. This company generated an annual turnover of $40 million by developing and selling networking products. Soon, Ullal plans to join a startup company, Crescendo Communications. In 1993, it was acquired by Cisco Systems. At that time, Cisco was a well-established firm. As an executive at Cisco, he managed their business in key enterprise markets including wired closet switching, datacenter backbones to enhance Layer 2-3 convergence, and customer premises appliances for remote WAN access. Cisco was emerging as the leader in the LAN switching business with annual sales of $5 million. She also rose to senior vice president of data centers and switching and oversaw more than 20 mergers and acquisitions. Later, in 2008, she separated herself from the company and joined Arista Networks. In October 2008, Arista Networks co-founders Andy Bechtolsheim and David Cheriton appointed Jayshree Ullal as CEO and President of Arista Networks. Initially, when Jayshree joined the company, it was only a 4-year-old company with one employee. There was also a shortfall of 50 people in headcount and revenue. In June 2014, the company gained a market capitalization of $2.7 billion to $20 billion on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ANET, after achieving a successful IPO. Additionally, Arista is a cloud networking company that is responsible for the deployment of 10/25/40/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet networking in the data center.
Jayshree Ullal with her team at Arista Networks
award
- E&Y’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2015.
- Barron’s “World’s Best CEOs” in 2018.
- One of Fortune’s “Top 20 Business People” in 2019
- SFSU Alumni Awards 2013
- SCU Alumni Awards 2016
- Top Ten Executives at VMWorld 2011
- Influential Women Award for Security CSO in 2008
- Named as one of the 20 Powerful Women to Watch by Newsweek in 2001
- Innovator and Influencer Award by Information Week in 2001
- First woman to be honored with the Entrepreneurship and Leadership Award sponsored by Silicon India in 1999
- 2013 Recipient of the Santa Clara University School of Engineering Award
- World’s Best CEOs: Growth Leaders 2018
- Named to Barron’s “World’s Best CEOs” list in 2018 and 2019
- Ranked 18th in Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year list for 2019
Note: There are various awards and honors associated with his name.
Facts/General Knowledge
- According to Forbes, Jayshree Ullal’s net worth is $1.5 billion (1,09,45,53,75,000 Indian Rupees).
- According to Forbes, she is also listed as the 60th richest self-made woman in America. In an interview, while talking about being a female entrepreneur she said,
You have to persevere and never give up despite setbacks. Being a woman in a male-dominated technology field is not a hindrance in intense and innovative industries like high tech. Talent is deeply appreciated and as women, we bring complementary instincts and intuition.
- As she claimed, the toughest time of Jayshree’s life was losing her younger sister Susie Nagpal, as she was suffering from lung cancer. After the demise of her sister, in her honour, Jayashree started a foundation SITA which funds cancer patients and people with the disease. Talking about the loss of his sister in an interview, he said,
My sister, Susie, lost her battle with lung cancer at the age of 46. I worked at her bedside for months and the most valuable lesson she taught me was to deeply appreciate our lives and the relationships we had built. After Susie passed away, our family started the SITA Foundation for Women, which works internationally to fund women’s access to education, especially in areas where access to schools can be challenging. SITA also funds cancer research.
- Forbes has listed Jayshree among the “Top 5 Most Influential People in the Networking Industry” for her work at Arista Networks; Apart from this, she is also counted in the list of 72 self-made billionaires in the world. He also has a 5% stake in the company Arista Networks.
- Jayshree Ullal performed the duet “Zoobie Doobie” with her husband Vijay Ullal at Saratoga’s Got Talent on 14 January 2012.
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