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Douglas Gourlay is the Vice President of Marketing for Arista Networks.  Gourlay is responsible for product and solutions marketing, corporate communications, and the strategic alliances of Arista Networks.

Prior to founding Nuera and consulting Gourlay was the Vice President of Cisco’s Data Center Solutions Group, where he defined and executed Cisco’s global marketing strategy for data center, virtualization, and cloud computing solutions.  This included the Nexus and Catalyst Data Center Switches, Application and Server Load-Balancing, Storage Networking, Blade Switching, and Wide-Area Application Services product families and their IT solutions.  Under his leadership Cisco’s data center segment has grown from a nascent business to over $5B in annual revenue.

Since 1998 Gourlay has led and contributed to numerous hardware, software, and systems architecture developments across Cisco. He has served as senior director of product management for the Nexus Family of Data Center switches, director of product management for the Catalyst® 6500 Series of LAN Switches, and led product management for Cisco’s Application Delivery product family. Gourlay has filed or holds more than 20 patents in networking technologies.

Prior to Cisco Gourlay was an industry consultant and served as a US Army Infantry Officer.  Gourlay is an avid pilot and can often be found tinkering on his Cirrus at Palo Alto Airport.