Arista Networks Inc. announced on June 13, 2025, the company appointed Todd Nightingale, age 45, to serve as the company?s president and chief operating officer. Mr. Nightingale will join the company on or about July 1, 2025. Mr. Nightingale has served as the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Fastly Inc. from September 2022 to June 2025.
Prior to Fastly Inc., Mr. Nightingale served as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Enterprise Networking and Cloud at Cisco Systems Inc. from March 2020 to September 2022. Mr. Nightingale served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Meraki from June 2016 to March 2020. Prior to that, he held various roles as a Vice President at Cisco Meraki.
Mr. Nightingale holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as a Masters in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Arista Networks, Inc. is a provider of data-driven, client to cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. The Companyâ's platforms deliver availability, agility, automation, analytics and security through an advanced network operating stack. Its portfolio of offerings includes three product categories: Core, Cognitive Adjacencies and Network Software and Services. Its Core product categories consist of high-speed Data Center and Cloud Networking systems, including newer artificial intelligence Ethernet switching platforms. Its Cognitive Adjacencies consists of campus wired and wireless products and advanced routing systems addressing Core Routing, Edge Routing, Multi-cloud and Wide Area Networking use cases. Its Network Software and Services consist of a suite of value-add software solutions that leverage Aristaâs Extensible Operating System (EOS) to provide advanced end-to-end orchestration, automation, analytics, network monitoring and security.
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