Eugenia Corrales

Director at Metamaterial

Eugenia Corrales is CEO of Nefeli Networks. She has spent more than 25 years as an executive and tech industry veteran developing innovative products, establishing business development capabilities, and building operational excellence.

Previously, Eugenia was Senior Vice president at ShoreTel, responsible for the company’s product management and development, as well as the operational infrastructure powering ShoreTel’s cloud-hosted collaboration solutions. She also served as General Manager and Vice President of Cisco’s Computing Systems Group, responsible for Cisco’s UCS (Unified Computing System), a multibillion-dollar business. Other leadership roles include CEO of Nanosolar, CEO and co-founder of Sunmodular, Vice President of engineering for SolFocus, as well as Vice President of product operations at Cisco. She started her career at HP as a development engineer and later ran the high-availability NT server program.

Eugenia earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Grinnell College. Born and raised in Costa Rica, Eugenia lives with her husband, sons, and dogs in California. She spends her free time swimming, hiking, painting and knitting.