Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

David Cheriton is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, head of the Distributed Systems Group in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and a co-founder, investor and Chief Scientist at Apstra, Inc. Cheriton also co-founded Arista Networks, Inc., Kealia, Inc. (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and Granite Systems (acquired by Cisco), and was also an early investor in Google, Inc and VMware. He was presented with the SIGCOMM Lifetime Achievement award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) “…for his contributions in data networking and systems, and for his keen talent for questioning the assumptions behind all our work.” Professor Cheriton was listed on the Forbes Midas List, a roster of the best dealmakers in technology venture capital published yearly by Forbes Magazine.

Blog posts:
http://blog.apstra.com/transtion-to-vendor-agnostic-intent-based-networking

http://blog.apstra.com/bamboozled_by_the_cloud

http://blog.apstra.com/public-cloud-as-a-black-hole-there-are-choices-before-the-event-horizon