#331 The Wi-Fi Revolution: Insights from Group VP, and Chief AI Officer of $10.33B company

Bob is Group VP, Chief AI Officer, and CTO enterprise at Juniper Networks. Juniper Networks is a $10.33B company with over 11,000 employees from 50+ countries. 

Juniper network is leading the revolution in networking, serving a range of customers, including the top 100 Global Service Providers, the Global Fortune 100, and 30,000 other enterprises.

Bob also co-founded Mist Systems, a start-up with $27.2M in revenue, which focused on building a machine learning platform in the cloud to help enterprises put business-critical mobile experiences on their wireless networks.

He has been recognized as a Wi-Fi industry leader and contributed to the HS2.0 industry standard.

Bob holds over 15 patents and has a wealth of experience in the wireless industry, having worked at Metricom and co-founded Airespace- a start-up focused on helping enterprises manage the flood of employees bringing unlicensed Wi-Fi technology into their businesses. 

Cisco acquired Airespace in 2005 for $450M, where Bob became the VP/CTO of Cisco enterprise mobility and drove mobility strategy and investments in the wireless business (e.g., Navini, Cognio, ThinkSmart, Phunware, Wilocity, Meraki).