Our Team

President and Chief Executive Officer
Kumar Srikantan
Kumar was VP/GM of HW Engineering for the Enterprise Networking Business at Cisco where he was responsible for the HW engineering execution of Cisco’s Enterprise Networking portfolio. Kumar brings 25 years of diverse leadership and operational experience in the technology industry that spans development, marketing, and engineering across computing, silicon and communications industries.

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer
Sunay Tripathi
Sunay Tripathi was a Senior Distinguished Engineer for Sun Microsystems, and was the Chief Architect for Kernel/Network Virtualization in Core Solaris OS. Sunay has an extensive 20+ year software background, and was one of the top code contributors to Solaris. Sunay holds over 50 patents encompassing network and server virtualization.

Co-Founder, Chief Operations Officer
Robert Drost
Robert Drost was a Sr. Distinguished Engineer and Director of Advanced Hardware at Sun Microsystems. Robert has extensive hardware experience, including over 90 patents and a 17 year career in high-performance computing systems. Among other recognitions, Robert has been cited by MIT's Technology Review TR35 as most innovative computing technologist under age 35, and by the Wall Street Journal with a Gold Medal for Innovation in Computing Systems.

Co-Founder, Vice President of Product Engineering
C.K. Ken Yang
C.K. Ken Yang is a Tenured Professor of EE at UCLA (on sabbatical) with a focus on high-performance communication. Ken is a leading expert in digital communications, computing systems, and IC design. Ken brings 15 years of consulting, design, and research experience with the foremost companies in the electronics industry to Pluribus Networks as well as several key engagements with leading Hardware startups.

Chief Marketing Officer
Dave Ginsburg
Dave Ginsburg bring over 25 years of experience to his role as CMO, having served as CMO at Extreme Networks and VP of Marketing at InnoPath Software. Prior to that he held the role of VP of Marketing at Lucent Technologies, responsible for all aspects of Lucent's Carrier Ethernet marketing, product strategy and business operations. Prior to Lucent, he served as Sr. VP of Marketing and Product Management at Riverstone Networks as well as VP of Marketing at Allegro Networks and VP of Product Marketing at Nortel Networks in addition to a variety of positions with Cisco, Alcatel and the U.S. Army.

VP of Operations
Shirish Joshi
Shirish is the VP of Operations at Pluribus Networks, a position he has held since 2011. With over 25 years of experience in the industry, Shirish has held senior leadership positions in Supply Chain and Operations positions at leading technology companies including Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Megellan Navigation and a number of startups including Jetstream Communications, Neoteris and KNO inc.

VP of Customer Advocacy
Dirk Campbell
Dirk brings over 20 years of experience building customer service and support organizations to his role of VP of Customer Advocacy at Pluribus Networks. Past positions have earned him recognition from the Technology Services Industry Associations (TSIA), Nemertes Research and a variety of other vendor and product services awards. Prior to Pluribus, Dirk built and developed services organizations at CacheFlow (Bluecoat Systems), Juniper Networks and Aruba Networks.

VP, Americas Enterprise & Channel Sales
Bob Layton
Bob brings 17 years of experience to the Pluribus Leadership Team. His Background includes SaaS, Managed Services, Hardware, Software and Cloud Offerings in the Enterprise and Mid Markets with Xerox, Thomson Reuters and Cisco Systems. Mr. Layton has a keen understanding of market drivers and strategies for hyper growth. He spent the last five years as Vice President of Sales for the Western US for Lumenate, a technical consulting firm focused on the data center and convergence. Layton drives customer success and the end user experience across multiple vertical markets.

Chief Financial Officer
George de Urioste
George de Urioste’s career includes Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer roles for several companies, including Marvell Technology, Chordiant Software and Remedy Corporation. He has also been an active senior advisor to Ricoh and Arrayent. As CFO, Mr. de Urioste led Remedy through a highly successful IPO and continued expansion. He currently serves as Board Director and Audit Committee Chairman for Bridgelux, Inc. and Vendavo, Inc. and has past public company Board experience. His 30+ years of experience include serving as past President of Financial Executives International in Silicon Valley. George is also a CPA (inactive).