Arman Khalili

Arman Khalili is the CEO of VPLS/Evocative and brings with him over 25 years of experience in the Internet Infrastructure industry.

Prior to joining the company, Arman served as a Principal at Industry Capital real assets-based private equity firm in San Francisco. He was the founder and CEO of CentralColo also known as Element Critical. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Black Lotus, a leader in a DDoS mitigation company, which was acquired by Level 3, and was the Founder/CEO of UnitedLayer, the largest privately held colocation provider in San Francisco. He was the founder of Sirius – one of the first ISPs in Silicon Valley, as well as the Co-founder and CTO of MusicBank, the first music subscription company. He has held numerous senior consulting positions at Level3, AT&T, and Apple Computers.