Rami Rahim is Chief Executive Officer of Juniper Networks and a member of the company's Board of Directors. Rami began his Juniper career in early 1997, as employee No. 32, and worked as an engineer on Juniper's first breakthrough product, the M40 core router. Rami has progressed through a series of technical and leadership roles at Juniper, applying his engineering acumen to the design and development of Juniper's industry-leading product portfolio.

Praveen Jain, Senior Vice President and General Manager at Juniper Networks, is a 25-year veteran in technology, networking, and cloud. Praveen has consistently driven innovation and successful product execution as the founder of several successful technology ventures. Most recently, Praveen was the founder and CEO of Witesand, which was acquired by Juniper in 2022.

In his role as Chief Technology Officer, Raj Yavatkar is responsible for charting Juniper's technology strategy. He leads and executes the company’s critical innovations and products for intelligent self-driving networks, security, Mobile Edge Cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration, and hybrid cloud.

A technology and products pioneer throughout his career, Yavatkar has envisioned how emerging technologies can be applied to creatively solve enterprise and business problems ahead of competitors to help establish new product lines.

Before joining Juniper, Yavatkar was at Google (GCP), where he led a large team of engineers to deliver cloud networking infrastructure solutions for Google Cloud customers. Prior to that at VMware, he ideated a new product concept to address the private/hybrid cloud markets by defining VMware Cloud Foundation—an easy way to deploy and manage virtual clouds—leading a large product team to successfully deliver product to market. He started his career at Intel, rising to the position of Intel Fellow, a position he held for 10 years. During his various leadership roles there, Raj was responsible for driving new product and R&D initiatives in many areas of software.

Yavatkar brings a wealth of experience in emerging technologies. He has been awarded more than 45 patents, published over 60 research papers, authored 5 Internet standards, and co-authored a book on internet quality of service. He is an IEEE Fellow and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University.