Allwyn SequeiraFounder

United States - San Francisco Bay Area

CEO at Highway9 Networks, prior SVP/GM at VMware
Serial entrepreneur: cloud, networking, security, virtualization, management, telco, 5G, edge
- Most successful venture was First Virtual, where I was co-founder/EVP-GM/board director, and had a successful IPO, after driving several profitable quarters.
- Most successful product from concept to delivery was VMware NSX vSphere (which grew to > $2B) where we introduced industry-first innovations like micro-segmentation, VXLANs, virtual firewalls/routers/load balancers, and network/security insertion.
- Most exciting was running VMware's own cloud - vCloud Air, reporting to CEO Pat Gelsinger
- Most industry impacting was HCX, where we enabled VM migration between VMW, GOOG, AWS, MSFT
- Most lucrative 1.0 product was Telco Cloud Platform where we got more than $100M for a 1.0 product, enabling DISH to rollout 5G to more than 120 markets!
- And now we've created Highway9 Networks, which will