Sanjit co-founded Samsara to make it easier and more affordable for businesses to deploy sensors at a massive scale. Prior to Samsara, Sanjit was the CEO and co-founder of Meraki, one of the most successful networking companies of the past decade. Sanjit grew Meraki from his Ph.D. research into a complete enterprise networking portfolio, with cloud-based management that revolutionized the deployment of large networks. Meraki's sales doubled every year from inception, earning the company tens of thousands of customers. In 2012 Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion. Under his leadership, Cisco Meraki continued to grow at over 100%, making it one of Cisco's fastest-growing product lines in history.
Sanjit has been recognized as a TR35 honoree by MIT Technology Review, a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, and has received awards for academic research in computer networking. He holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford and an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.
Kiren is responsible for Samsara's product strategy, positioning, and outbound marketing. A proven technology leader, Kiren's broad experience ranges from product development to communications and go-to-market strategy. Prior to Samsara, Kiren was VP of Marketing at Meraki, where he was responsible for product marketing, brand, communications, and demand generation. Kiren was the first to bring modern, web-oriented marketing to enterprise networking, and developed innovative programs that sourced over half of Meraki's sales. Kiren's engineering-oriented business approach comes from his time as a technical leader at high-growth startups. Kiren holds patents for his work in network protocol design at Apple.
Kiren has a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford.
Jeffrey leads Samsara’s global product organization where he oversees the company’s platform, product vision, and development activities to help customers improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of their physical operations. With over 25 years of experience, he brings a proven track record for scaling large and transformative software companies. Prior to Samsara, Jeffrey led ServiceNow’s Operations Management Portfolio as Senior Vice President and General Manager. Previously, he held senior executive positions at McAfee, Symantec, Hewlett-Packard, and Veritas, and has served as a CEO and COO for privately held companies. Earlier in his career, Jeffrey worked as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies as part of Booz & Co. Jeffrey received his MBA at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and holds a bachelor’s degree in math and economics from Claremont McKenna College.
Dominic is the EVP, Chief Financial Officer at Samsara and leads worldwide financial operations, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, procurement, tax, treasury, corporate development, investor relations, legal, IT, and real estate. Previously, Dominic was VP of Finance and Head of Corporate Development at ServiceNow where he led several finance functions, including financial planning and analysis, investor relations, treasury, and corporate development. Prior to ServiceNow, Dominic was a VP on Morgan Stanley's technology investment banking team where he advised technology companies on a wide range of transformational financings and strategic transactions.
Dominic holds a B.S. in Business from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Andy brings 20 years of sales experience to Samsara, where he is responsible for leading the team that brings Samsara's solutions to market. Previously, Andy was VP of Worldwide Sales at Meraki, and continued as VP of Sales for the global Meraki business after the company's acquisition by Cisco Systems. Over an eight year span, Andy led Meraki's sales growth from less than $10 million per year to over $1 billion. Prior to Meraki, Andy held various sales and channel leadership positions with Nokia’s network security business, leading up to a sale to Check Point.
Andy has a B.A. from University California at Irvine, and a MBA and doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University. His doctoral research was on measuring productivity in mobile workforces.
Mike is the VP of Corporate Development and Investor Relations at Samsara. He leads Samsara’s mergers and acquisitions activities, ventures program, and communications with investors. Previously, Mike spent over a decade in software investment banking at Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and BofA Merrill Lynch. Over his career, he executed transformational strategic acquisitions and financing transactions aggregating over $125B in value.
Mike holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering and M.S. in Computer Science from UC San Diego. He also holds an MBA from UC Los Angeles
Jonathan has 20 years of experience in finance, information technology, accounting, and transformation leadership roles at Maxim Crane Works. Additional professional experience includes Global Logistics at Beckman Coulter, Inc., a division of Danaher Corporation and Gap, Inc’s Global Supply Chain division.
At Maxim Crane, Jonathan is focused on driving the company’s long-term growth strategy & transformation as the nation’s largest crane provider. Maxim Crane’s continuous investment in technology helps the company cater to a wide range of requirements to improve the safety & efficiency of its customers’ projects across different industries and geographies.
Travis has 10+ years of experience driving transformation through all facets of the transportation industry, including 3PL operations (carrier operations, brokerage, shipping, receiving, intermodal, FTL and LTL freight) and procurement strategies coupled with technology enhancements. He has held leadership roles at Fortune 100 Shippers, Top 50 National Private Fleets, Top Logistics IT providers, and FreightTech’s Top 25.
Travis oversees the Univar Solutions Transportation HQ Department, leading his team to develop the technology road map to support both the transportation procurement and private fleet management strategies.
