Primary Job Title Professor Primary Organization Stanford University
Location Stanford, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type Investor Stage Number of Exits
Website web.stanford.edu/~cheriton/ LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
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
