Andreas Bechtolsheim
21 - 22 October 2025
Juniper Networks Aspiration Dome
Sunnyvale, California USA
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Andreas Bechtolsheim
Arista | Chairman and Chief Development Officer
About the Speaker
Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim is Co-Founder and Chief Architect of Arista Networks, a leading vendor of cloud networking solutions.
Previously, Andy was a Co-Founder and Chief System Architect at Sun Microsystems, responsible for next generation server, storage, and network architectures.
As a private venture investor, Andy has been involved in the funding of numerous companies including Google, VMware, Mellanox, and Brocade. He has served on the Board of Directors of over 25 companies, the majority of which went public or were acquired.
Andy earned a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1976 and was a doctoral student in Computer Engineering at Stanford University from 1977 to 1982.
He has been honored with a Fulbright scholarship, a Studienstiftung scholarship, the Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award, the Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
