Previously, Nikos was a Managing Director at UBS Investment Research for 17 years where he served as Senior Research Analyst in the communications and networking industries, Global Technology Strategist and U.S. Technology Sector Head. He has one brother, Guenther. Dr. Bechtolsheim received a doctorate from Stanford University and a graduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University. The company, originally named BackRub, moved in 1999 from Palo Alto to Mountain View, where it eventually developed its large office campus. His family moved to Rome in 1963. From 1997 to 2006, Ita held various roles at Maxtor Corporation, a multi-billion dollar information storage solutions company, including Vice President of Finance for the Companys Worldwide Operations. Proceeds from these calculated Google share sales and from Bechtolsheim's other ventures, including Sun Microsystems, Granite, Kealia and venture capital firm HighBar, have been derived from reported sale prices and share sales. Khosla had graduated a couple of years earlier from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with Scott McNealy, who managed manufacturing at Onyx Systems. In 2018, Marcus and his wife Judy donated $25 million to their alma mater, San Francisco State University, the largest gift in school history. Bechtolsheim, through his family trust, owns almost 22% of Arista. Today, the company owns 550 office buildings and 125 apartment complexes, mostly in Orange County. As Chief Development Officer, Andy Bechtolsheim is responsible for the overall product development and technical direction of Arista Networks. Two students from the University of Minnesota invested $100,000 in a garage in 2004 to create Google. At age 16, he designed an industrial controller for a nearby company based on the Intel 8008, which he then programmed in binary code as he had no access to assemblers. Intel was founded in 1968 by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore, two former employees of Fairchild Semiconductors. He was reportedly an early investor in Claria Corporation, which ceased operating in 2008. Mark served for 13 years at Cisco where he held various supply chain executive roles. Andy Bechtolsheim was born on September 30, 1955 in Munich, Germany, to parents. Stanford graduate students Larry Page and Sergey Brin launched Google in 1998 with a $100,000 investment from Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim. [3] Early life [ edit] Pramod has a BS in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal and an MS (Computer Science) and an MBA from Arizona State University. He joined Cisco in 1996 via the acquisition of Granite Systems, rising to Senior Vice President and General Manager of Datacenter switching and services. He has a three-decade track record of driving growth and innovation at leading global technology companies. Andy Bechtolsheim, 16, designed a control system for a local companys industrial control system on the Intel 8008 when he was 16. Diller passed away in 2018, the same year the Helen Diller Foundation, which he created with his wife, made a $500 million donation to the University of California, San Francisco. They met while studying computer science at Stanford University. Prior to Arista, Pramod was the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the RUCKUS business unit within CommScope. Jeff holds a B.S. She brings over 20 years of experience in high technology from roles at Cisco Systems, Sun Microsystems, Kealia Inc., acquired by Sun Microsystems, Confluence Networks Inc., and Granite Systems, acquired by Cisco Systems. Google (GOOGL) is arguably one of the worlds most well-known companies, and its search engine has earned a verb to be known simply as Google. Bechtolsheim: I am the only person in my extended family that ever did anything engineering-related, with the exception of my great-great-uncle who invented the milk centrifuge in the late 1800s. Previously, Andy was a Co-Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems, responsible for next generation server, storage, and network architectures. Apple remains the most valuable company on the S&P 500 at a market value of $2 trillion, followed by Microsoft at a market value of $1.66 trillion. Bechtolsheim (Literally Bechtol's Home) is an Ortsgemeinde - a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality - in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. She has served as a board member for Anaplan, Inc., a cloud-based business planning software company, and Mulesoft, an integration platform for SOA, SaaS, and APIs. After a brief stint at chipmaker Intel, he took a summer job at Stanford University and became an electrical engineer PhD student in 1977. He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was the company's first chairman and chief executive officer. He left again in 2008, to focus on Arista Networks, a network-switch maker that held an IPO in June 2014. Mark was an executive of Citrix Systems, a global provider of software solutions, from January 1995 until his retirement in October 2015, serving as president, CEO and member of the board. He has been at Arista since 2011, and has over 30 years experience of networking technology, having spent 13 years at Cisco in both Systems Engineering and Product Management roles, where he was part of the team that developed the Nexus product lines, before which he was at Unisys and Olivetti Solutions in the UK. He has published multiple papers and book chapters in the areas of packaging, assembly, quality, materials and reliability and holds over 10 patents. GI Manager L.P completed the acquisition of GTY Technology Holdings Inc. from Conifer Management, LLC, Beryl Capital Management LLC, Terrapin Station LLC, Andreas Bechtolsheim and others. Prior to joining Arista Networks, Ken was the CTO at There.com, where he played a lead role in designing a real-time 3-D distributed system that scaled to thousands of simultaneous users. He was also a founding investor in Google. As President and CEO of Arista for over a decade, Jayshree Ullal is responsible for Aristas business and thought leadership in cloud networking. Most recently, Jeff was a Senior Director with product management responsibility for the Nexus Data Center Switching business. 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Andreas von Bechtolsheim co-founded Aflac (which at its inception was an acronym for The American Family Assurance Company) in 1978. Andy Bechtolsheim, a native of Finning, Landsberg, Bavaria, West Germany, was born on September 30, 1955. When Page came up with the idea of doing a random walk, he didnt know how to compute it. Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and employee number one, is Chief Architect and Senior Vice President for the Systems Group, and is also a member of Sun's executive management team. In 1998, he made an early investment of $100,000 in Google, which later turned into a stake of more than $1 billion. Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old? 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Dan was the first investor in Zoom, an early investor in SentinelOne and Treasure Data (sold to ARM). Kenneth Duda is a pioneer in high-performance networking software and lead architect of Arista Networks EOS, a stateful modular operating system for all Arista Networks products. Google has outperformed the market on an annual basis by 10% over the past 15 years. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and was a doctoral student in Computer Engineering at Stanford University from 1977 to 1982. Previously Ken was an early stage employee at Force10 Networks, CacheFlow/Bluecoat and Bay Networks. Transcript : Arista Networks, Inc. Presents at Bank of America 2022 Global Technology Conference, Jun-08-2022 08:45 AM. Oral History of Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim Interviewed by: Douglas Fairbairn Recorded: July 17, 2015 Mountain View, California . Bechtolsheim received a Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation in 1999[23] and a Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award. degree in electrical engineering in 1978. His net worth reached $7 billion in September 2018. Bechtolsheim invested in Tapulous, the maker of music games for the Apple iPhone. Ken was also the first employee of Granite Systems and led the software development effort for the Catalyst 4000 product line after the acquisition by Cisco. He called it Five years later, in 1968, the family relocated again, to Nonnenhorn on Lake Constance in Germany. Page had to borrow $800 from his family to get his first record started. Ed received his B.S. He later became an investor, providing Sergey Brin and Larry Page with their first round of funding, a $100,000 investment in 1998 before the two had even incorporated their company, Google. Previously Charlie served as Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners, as well as Managing Director and Head of Value Creation. Andy Bechtolsheim is a 67 years old from Germany from Hngeberg. The company sold shares in an initial public offering in 1986. In this role, Bechtolsheim drives the rapid productization of next generation network server technologies. In 2011, he co-founded Wayin, a social intelligence and visualization company based in Denver. In June 1999, two venture capital firms that each invested in Google each own 11 to 14% of the company. This neighborhood is home to Michael Milken, a junk bond king who founded Sun Microsystems and Andy Bechtolsheim, a Sun Microsystems co-founder. Previously, Chris was a sales consultant for minimally invasive procedures at Boston Scientific. As Chief Development Officer, Andy Bechtolsheim is responsible for the overall product development and technical direction of Arista Networks. Establishes server maker Kealia with Stanford professor David Cheriton. Harvard labor economist Claudia Goldin summarises the distance we've travelled over the past hundred years, in a kind of Five Ages of Women. In 1998, he gave a pair of Stanford graduate students $100,000 to start their search engine. This 59-year-old electrical engineer was the chief hardware designer and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. degrees in civil engineering from the University of Illinois, as well as an M.S. He holds both B.S. Originally from Canada, Mark holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Calgary. His family moved to Rome in 1963. [10] He became vice president and general manager of Cisco's Gigabit Systems Business Unit, until leaving the company in December 2003 to head Kealia, Inc.[citation needed], Bechtolsheim founded Kealia in early 2001 with Stanford Professor David Cheriton, a partner in Granite Systems, to work on advanced server technologies using the Opteron processor from Advanced Micro Devices. He left Stanford five years later to set-up Sun Microsystems with Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy and Bill Joy. He has a B.S. [13], Bechtolsheim and Cheriton were two of the first investors in Google, investing US$100,000 each in September 1998. Marc Taxay joined Arista in 2013 and serves as the companys General Counsel. Hugh has a B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from Stanford University in Computer Science. [5], The first product, the Sun-1, included the Stanford CPU board design with improved memory expansion, and a sheet-metal case. The result was the SPARCstation 1 (known as "campus"), the start of another line of Sun products. She led the company to a historic and successful IPO in June 2014 from zero to a multibillion-dollar business. The company owns three office parks in San Jose and Santa Clara, where it is headquartered. Many of the companys apartments are in Mountain View and Cupertino, hubs of Silicon Valleys tech industry. Ita Brennan is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a public accounting alumna of Deloitte and Touche, having worked at the firm in both Ireland and the U.S. John McCool is responsible for Arista's platforms including hardware, engineering, system test, customer and manufacturing operations. He has also been a director of several companies, including Kaleida Labs, Granite Systems, and Corio. Bechtolsheim invested in Tapulous, the maker of music games for the Apple iPhone. Andreas von Bechtolsheim was born in Bavaria on Sept. 30, 1955. Bechtolsheim was born at Hngeberg am Ammersee, Bavaria, the second of four children. Because his home had no television, he often experimented with. Pramod is responsible for the products, engineering and business of Arista's cognitive campus portfolio. Although he has never married, he is still a German citizen. Support was provided by the Computer Science Department and DARPA. He one of the Richest Engineer who was born in German. Founder, Chief Development Officer and Chairman Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim is Chairman, Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder of Arista Networks. Prior to Silver Lake, Charlie served in senior executive roles at Cisco Systems, including CTO and Chief Development Officer, and was a leader of Cisco's multi-product, multi-market growth strategy, driving entry into new markets. Cisco was founded in 1984 by a husband-and-wife team that wanted to send each other electronic messages at Stanford. He is also ranked in the richest person list from Germany. At the time, Lynn Conway was using workstations to design very-large-scale integration (VLSI) circuits. He moved to the U.S. and completed a master's degree in computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in 1976. Apple was founded in 1976 by two legendary figures in Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak plus Ron Wayne, who sold his extremely early stake in the company back to the Steves 11 days later for $800. His net worth has been growing significantly in 2021-2022. Invests in Google after meeting Sergey Brin and Larry Page. in economics with a specialization in computing from the University of California, Los Angeles and an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Business. According to our Database, He has no children. Arastra later changed its name to Arista Networks. Andy was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems together with Bill Joy, Vinod Khosla, and Scott McNealy. Other articles where Andy Bechtolsheim is discussed: Google: Searching for business: of their first investors was Andy Bechtolsheim, a cofounder of Sun Microsystems, Inc.). Marguerite Reardon Oct. 23, 2008 3:17 p.m. PT He has been honored with a Fulbright scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation, the EY 2015 US Entrepreneur of the Year Award (together with Jayshree Ullal) and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Andy Bechtolsheim was born on 30 September, 1955 in Bavaria, Germany, is a German electrical engineer and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. Forbes estimates his net worth at $17 billion, making him the wealthiest real estate developer in the country. The publicly traded company had revenue of $4.4 billion in 2022. Doug served as a US Army Infantry Officer, ROTC at Auburn University, and studied Cyber Security and Cyber Warfare at Norwich University. Jay Paul founded his eponymous company in 1975 after saving his fathers Southern California-based investment bank from failure, according to Finance & Commerce. Marc also worked as a partner at Cohen & Grigsby and a senior associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. The two worked on the World Wide Web and created a search engine that was quickly noticed by the audience. Andreas von Bechtolsheim was born in 1951 and worked as Suns chief hardware designer from 1982 until its death in 2011. In 2012, Bechtolsheim invested in a Stanford incubated semantic web startup Diffbot. Prior to Awake, Rahul was the Global CTO at Cylance and held technical leadership roles in security start-up Bromium as well as McAfee advancing Network and Host Intrusion Prevention technologies. Methodology: The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world's richest Prior to joining Arista, Ken spent 10 years at Foundry Networks and then Brocade through the acquisition of Foundry. Kealia hardware technology was used in the Sun Fire X4500 storage product. Andy Bechtolsheim: If we look at how to reduce power, there are very promising new optics modulation technologies compared to silicon photonics. Formerly Jayshree was Senior Vice President at Cisco, responsible for a $10B business in datacenter, switching and services. She brings over two decades of financial management expertise in the high technology industry. He is responsible for Arista's global sales operations, field marketing and business planning. in product design from North Carolina State University and an M.B.A. from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. His investment in Googles Series A was made in 1999. Charles Giancarlo is Chairman and CEO of Pure Storage. 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The billionaire, who was one of Google's first investors, holds most of his Arista shares through the Bechtolsheim Family Trust, according to the filing. Previously, Andy was a Co-Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems, responsible for next generation server, storage, and network architectures. Updates? The company, originally named BackRub . Sanford Diller, the son of Jewish Austrian immigrants, founded the residential development company Prometheus in 1965 after years of practicing law in San Francisco. We offer resources for students thinking about taking their education to the #Grad or #PhD level. In the process they invented routers, a key piece of technology for the modern internet, according to Wired. Andy Bechtolsheim rose to prominence as an angel investor around the world. In 2022, the companys market value is estimated to be around $1.89 trillion. With more than 30 years of networking experience, she is the recipient of numerous awards including E&Ys Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015, Barrons Worlds Best CEOs in 2018 and one of Fortunes Top 20 Business persons in 2019. Bechtolsheim left Sun Microsystems to become the Chairman and Chief Development Officer of Arista in October, 2008, but stated he still was associated with Sun in an advisory role. She has also served on the boards of private and non-profit institutions. Stakes in publicly traded companies are valued using the share's most recent closing price. Besides Arista, Bechtolsheim cofounded two other IT networking companies with David Cheriton (one sold to Sun Microsystems, another to Cisco). The $100 million price tag was placed on the table with a sense of inevitability that it would result in a sizable profit. In Yvonnes time at New Relic, a cloud-based observability platform company, she held the position of CIO. Exploring The Role Of A Computer Science Degree In Obtaining An H1B Visa, Achieving Success In A Computer Science Degree: The Keys To Success. Andy Bechtolsheim, German electrical engineer. He also founded Arista Networks, Inc. (which he founded in 2004 and continues to this day). As an engineering student at Technical University of Munich Bechtolsheim entered the Jugend forscht contest for young researchers, and after entering for three years, won the physics prize in 1974. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in Alzey . Andreas von Bechtolsheim is a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and Arista Networks. [17] Tapulous was acquired by the Walt Disney Company in 2010. Bechtolsheims family moved to Palo Alto, California, in 1968, when Julius Bechtolsheim took a position at Stanford University. He got his start on single family homes and by working with his mother, Ann Sobrato, who also built a successful real estate development business in the Peninsula. Leonardo Castaeda is a reporter covering demographics and the income divide as part of The Mercury News Living in the Bay Area team. Scott McNealy (born November 13, 1954) is a businessman from the United States. Biography of Andy Bechtolsheim. When he gave the check to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's founders, the company had not yet been legally incorporated. Born on 30 September 1955 in Germany, Andy Bechtolsheim started his career as electrical engineer . He co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and was the companys first chairman and chief executive officer. Anshul has an M.S. From 1982 until 1995, Andy was Vice-President of Technology at Sun, leading the development of Sun's workstations, including the very popular SPARCstation product family. Ken has 3 simultaneous engineering degrees from MIT and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Bechtolsheim gave the opening keynote speech at the International Supercomputing Conference in 2009. Today Essex is publicly traded and owns about 59,700 apartments through the West Coast. Andy served as VP/GM of the Gigabit Systems Business Unit at Cisco that developed the very successful Catalyst 4500 family of switches. When he gave the check to Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Google's founders, the company had not yet been legally incorporated. Bechtolsheim was a "no fee consultant" at Xerox, meaning he was not remunerated directly but had free access to the research being done there. Marc is responsible for overseeing the legal affairs of Arista including commercial transactions, intellectual property, corporate governance, securities and compliance. [19], Bechtolsheim invested in all of Haber's previous startups:[citation needed] CompCore purchased by Zoran, GigaPixel purchased by 3Dfx and Mobilygen purchased by Maxim Integrated Products in 2008, as well as Moovweb, a cloud-based interface for mobile and computer websites in 2009. Royalties from the product supported much of his education. Discover Andy Bechtolsheim's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, both with honors. Andreas Andy Bechtolsheim is Chairman, Chief Development Officer and Co-Founder of Arista Networks. Originally from the UK, Martin holds a B.Eng. Sergey, on the other hand, would serve as Larrys closest friend and an invaluable member of the organization. He has a net worth of $3.6 billion. Contents 1 Geography 1.1 Location 1.2 Neighbouring municipalities degree in electrical engineering in 1977 and an M.S. He is from German. As a result of investments like these, Bechtolsheim was seen as one of the most successful "angel investors",[16] particularly in areas such as electronic design automation (EDA), which refers to the software used by people designing computer chips. Prior to that, he served as the CFO for National Semiconductor for over 10 years until it was acquired by Texas Instruments. "For David, money is not the aim . Five years later, in 1968, the family relocated again, to Nonnenhorn on Lake Constance in Germany. He also served on the Board of PG&E for nearly 10 years, chairing two committees during a portion of that time. Edit Now Shriram transformed Google from an internet search company to an advertising company during his tenure as CEO.
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