Sanjit Biswas | LinkedIn

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Sanjit Biswas | LinkedIn
Sanjit Biswas | LinkedIn
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Cisco Systems, Meraki, Inc.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Sanjit is the former CEO and a co-founder of Meraki, which he helped grow from a Ph.D. research project
at MIT to a Sequoia-backed $120M run rate company, until a $1.2B acquisition by Cisco in 2012. He
then became the General Manager of the Cisco Meraki line of wireless, switching and security products,
which continued to double in revenue each year making it one of Cisco's fastest growing business units.
Sanjit has been recognized as a TR35 honoree by MIT Technology Review, Technology Pioneer by the
World Economic Forum, and has received awards for academic research in computer networking.
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Sanjit holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford and an S.M. in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
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TakingBiswas
a little time
Software
off
Consultant at Siemens
Healthcare
John Bicket
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taking some time off
Startups
2012 – Present (3 years) | San Francisco Bay Area
Todd Nightingale
Helped friends from college / academia as they started companies.
VP, General Manager at Cisco Meraki
In alphabetical order: Building Robotics, Endaga, Highfive (funded by Google/A16z), Kumu Networks
(funded by NEA), Leftronic (acquired by AppDirect), Mojave Networks (acq. Sophos), Sessionbox (acq.
Jut), ThousandEyes (funded by Sequoia/SHV), Zulip (acq. Dropbox)
Kiren Sekar
VP/GM Cloud Networking Group (Cisco Meraki)
Andy McCall
Cisco Systems
Cloud Networking VP, Marketing at
Cisco Systems
Vice President Sales at Cisco
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December 2012 – 2014 (2 years) | San Francisco, CA
Integrated Meraki within Cisco as a new site in San Francisco, continued to grow revenue to $500M/year.
Raj Krishna
Director, Product Management at
Cisco Cloud Networking Group
CEO
Meraki, Inc.
Ben Calderon
April 2006 – December 2012 (6 years 9 months) | San Francisco, CA
VP of Operations and Hardware at
Meraki, inc.
Co-founded Meraki with John Bicket and Hans Robertson. Built cloud managed wireless, security,
switching and mobile device management products. Grew the company from zero to $120M/year before
$1.2B acquisition by Cisco.
Daghan Altas
Sr. Product Manager at Cisco Meraki.
Mike Yin - Meraki is hiring!
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Education
Director, System Engineering at Cisco
Meraki
Lawrence Huang
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S., Computer Science
Senior Product Manager at Cisco
Meraki
How You're Connected
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ph.D., Computer Science (on leave)
You
Stanford University
B.S., Computer Science, Electrical Engineering
Andrew Fisher
Donna Overstreet
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Patents
Sanjit Biswas
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Electronic device with weather-tight housing
United States US8031472
In Common with Sanjit
Issued
Fun with plastics.
Created with Raphaël 2.1.03Skills & Expertise
System and method for remote monitoring and control of network devices
United States US8477771
Issued
Node self-configuration and operation in a wireless network
United States US8339991
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Skills
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Cloud Computing
39
Start-ups
29
Wireless
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SaaS
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Paul Martecchini
VP, Advertising
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While at Meraki, Paul helped define, test and sell a new advertising platform, as well as
manage outbound marketing campaigns to our largest vertical market. He consistently got a
lot done without a large team or budget, and assisted in the broader management of the
company by providing thoughtful and pragmatic advice as a member of the senior executive
staff.
I... more
June 16, 2009, Sanjit managed Paul at Meraki Networks, Inc.
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