Prashant Gandhi

Prashant Gandhi leads Products and Services in the Application Networking and Security (ANS) Division at Broadcom, responsible for VMware vDefend Lateral Security and Avi Load Balancer product management, product marketing and professional services. Previously, he was at Arista Networks via acquisition of Big Switch, where he led product management for SDN-based switching and monitoring products, plus led strategic initiatives in DC security and observability. Prashant also held product leadership roles at Cisco in Catalyst 6K and Nexus product lines. He was co-founder and CEO of Rohati Systems — a data center security startup acquired by Cisco. Prashant also served as a member of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at Villanova University.