Vaishali Ghiya

Vaishali Ghiya has 27+ years of experience in Networking, Cloud and Security Sales, Solution Architecture, Systems Engineering, Product Management, Strategic Alliances and Engineering capacities, transforming 200+ people team. She is recognized as Top 50 Women Leaders of San Francisco. Vaishali is an Executive Officer for Global Ecosystems and Partnerships at Denvr Dataworks responsible for driving sales and GTM and creating new routes to market for GPU-as-a-service. Prior to this, Vaishali was a Vice President of Technical Sales at Equinix and is responsible for 150+ people team of solution architects, sales engineering and edge specialists to accelerate new business across Global Accounts, Field Sales, Mid-Market Sales, Channel Sales and Network Sales motions. Prior to Equinix Vaishali lead AWS Marketplace and Partners business development, a multi-billion dollars business at Amazon Web Services (AWS) enabling customers and partners to accelerate their digital transformation journey to AWS. Prior to AWS Vaishali was a Sr. Director at Cisco responsible for Security Technical Sales managing a 200+ people team and a multi-billion dollars business across Global Enterprise, Commercial, Public Sector, SP/Cloud, Canada, LATAM & Partners groups. Prior to Cisco she spent 14+ years at Juniper in a variety of different roles. In her last role, she was a Sr. Director for WW security sales along with driving innovative Security & SD-WAN solutions & partner eco system globally. Prior to Security sales role, Vaishali was a field CTO for Commercial & Partner Sales where she was responsible for driving cloud, security & networking sales & GTM strategy. Before joining Juniper in 2004, Vaishali spent 7 years at Nortel in product management and engineering capacities, leading the SSL VPN, 10 Gigabit Ethernet and WLAN strategy and solutions. She holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from University of Arizona. Vaishali is a recipient of IT Wondrous Women award and is passionate about mentoring, sponsoring and promoting women in technology.