Malhar Shah

Malhar brings over 20 years of leadership experience in Enterprise Technology. As a co-founder and CEO of Crest Data Systems, he is leading the strategy and its evolution as a leading Enterprise solutions provider in Data Analytics, Security, DevOps and Cloud.Prior to founding Crest, Malhar held leadership roles in product management at Cisco’s Insieme Business Unit (acquired by Cisco in 2013) and Nuova Business Unit (acquired by Cisco in 2008) where he led the growth of Cisco’s Data Center Switching business from inception to an annualized revenue of over $1.5B. Prior to this, he held various engineering and product management positions at Force10 and at Cisco’s flagship Catalyst 6500 product-line.Malhar holds a bachelor’s engineering degree in Civil Engineering from Gujarat University and a Master’s degree in Computer Networking from North Carolina State University.