Bikash Koley — CEO

As the Vice President of Global Infrastructure and Capacity, Bikash oversees the global network and physical infrastructure that power and connect every Google application and Google Cloud product to our users and customers globally. Our portfolio of global network, land, energy and data centers delivers the reliability, scale and performance that our users and customers expect from Google. His team is also responsible for end-to-end capacity and demand planning and optimization across this portfolio. The networking team is responsible for design, development and operation of Google’s cutting edge and fully intent-driven global network spanning 2 million+ miles of lit terrestrial and subsea fiber and 3000+ edge locations in 200+ countries and territories. The high performing infrastructure team drives our global energy, location, datacenter and network strategy and acquisition, aiming to achieve our ambitious net-zero emissions and 24/7 carbon-free energy goal. Prior to this, Bikash was the Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Juniper Networks. In this role, Bikash charted Juniper’s technology strategy and led the execution of the company’s critical technology innovations. Specifically, Bikash was responsible for Juniper’s telco cloud and virtualization, multicloud enterprise datacenter and software defined enterprise networking products and technologies. Prior to Juniper, Bikash spent close to ten years at Google, where he was a Distinguished Engineer and the Head of Network Architecture, Engineering and Planning. Prior to Google, Bikash was the CTO of Qstreams Networks, a company he co-founded. He also spent several years at Ciena Corporation in various technical roles developing DWDM and Ethernet technologies. He is an industry-leading expert on network function virtualization, intent driven networking (IDN), multicloud networking, warehouse-scale computing, and hyperscale network infrastructures. Bikash received a BTech from IIT, India; and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park, all in Electrical Engineering.

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Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 25 yrs 2 mos