Ms. Ullal has served as our Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors since October 2008 and as our Chairperson of the Board since December 2023. Ms. Ullal served as our President from October 2008 to September 2025. From September 1993 to May 2008, Ms. Ullal served in various positions at Cisco Systems, Inc., with her last position as senior vice president of data center, switching and services group. Prior to that, Ms. Ullal was a vice president of marketing at Crescendo Communications, Inc., Cisco s first acquisition in 1993. She has also held various product and engineering positions at Ungermann-Bass, a computer networking company, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., a semiconductor company, and Fairchild Semiconductor, a semiconductor company. Ms. Ullal has served as a member of the board of directors of Snowflake Inc., a cloud-based data warehousing company since June 2020, where she currently serves as Chair of the Compensation Committee. Ms. Ullal holds a B.S. in Engineering (Electrical) from San Francisco State University and an M.S. in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University. She is a 2013 recipient of the Santa Clara University School of Engineering Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award. We believe that Ms. Ullal possesses specific attributes that qualify her to serve as a member of our board of directors. Ms. Ullal has unparalleled operational insight and expertise that she has accumulated as our Chief Executive Officer. In addition, she has an extensive background in leadership and technology roles at several semiconductor and network technology companies before joining Arista, as well as board oversight experience as a member of Snowflake Inc. s board of directors.