Since September 2023, Mr. Shukla has held the position of Executive Chairman of the Board at Aryaka, having previously joined the company as an independent board member
With over 25 years of experience, Mr. Shukla possesses deep domain knowledge in networking, cloud computing, and cybersecurity. After serving as Vice President and General Manager at Google Cloud, where he helped grow the multibillion dollar Networking and Security company, he now joins Aryaka. Throughout his professional career, Mr. Shukla has established growth teams and businesses for both at-scale corporations like Google and Cisco Systems, as well as for entrepreneurial startups like Instart Logic and Redback Networks. His previous positions at Cisco included VP/GM of many routing and software divisions and Chief Operating Officer at Instart.
Aryaka investor and Board member Rob Schwartz of Third Point Ventures stated, They’re very excited to bring a well-known industry leader like Shailesh as CEO and chairman to lead Aryaka’s business. He has an amazing track record of success in everything he has attempted. He is very skilled at networking and security, as well as growing businesses to new heights. He is the perfect leader for this business as it transforms the sector and takes SASE to new heights.
For Aryaka, Mr. Shukla assumes the role of chairman and CEO at a pivotal moment. The requirement to secure distributed and more complex applications running on hybrid cloud and datacenter-based IT infrastructures that are accessed by users worldwide is driving the growth of the SASE market. However, companies face substantial hurdles in managing interconnections, adjusting to continually emerging threats, negotiating fragmented vendors, and effectively securing distributed users and applications. With its Unified SASE solution, which offers a unique distributed policy enforcement, unified control plane, and single-pane-of-glass management that ensures optimal network and security performance, Aryaka precisely tackles these problems.
Having spent the last five months working closely with Aryaka and its clients, Shukla expressed his immense admiration for the team’s skills and inventiveness as well as for recent client victories like Cathay Pacific’s worldwide SASE implementation. It is a privilege for me to guide Aryaka—a firm with an amazing team and cutting-edge resources—into its next stage of expansion. 98% of venture-backed startups never reach the $100M ARR milestone, but Aryaka has. With the convergence of the networking and security businesses, Aryaka has a chance to emerge as the next billion-dollar leader in the security sector.
Leader in Unified SASE and fully managed SD-WAN systems is Aryaka. Aryaka provides ridiculously excellent customer service by meeting clients where they are and assisting them in overcoming their network and security obstacles. With Aryaka’s all-in-one solution and adaptable architecture, businesses of all sizes can modernize, challenge the status quo, and secure their futures. Numerous Fortune 100 companies are among the hundreds of international businesses that make up the company’s clientele.
