Gaurav Manglik

Gaurav has been a driving force behind many of the fundamental principles upon which today’s cloud computing is based. He co-founded CliQr Technologies in 2010 and served as its Chief Executive Officer until it was acquired by Cisco in 2016. Since then, Gaurav has been leading cloud engineering for the Cloud Platform and Solutions Group at Cisco. At Cisco, Gaurav has been a key driver for Cisco’s cloud and container strategy and related investments and acquisitions. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and a MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. Gaurav holds several patents in the areas of distributed computing and automating infrastructure and applications management.