Shailesh Shukla

Shailesh Shukla is Vice President of Products and Strategy for Instart Logic, focused on making application delivery fast, secure, and easy.  Prior to Instart Logic, Shukla was the Vice President and General Manager (VP/GM) of Cisco's Software and Applications Group in the Mobility Business, with a portfolio of software products enabling monetization and optimization across mobile, wireline and web players. He has also served as the VP/GM for Cisco's Core Routing Business.

Prior to joining Cisco, Shukla was part of the management team at two Silicon Valley networking companies: Juniper Networks for three years and Redback Networks for seven years, in a variety of roles including Vice President of Marketing, Strategy and Corporate Development.  Previously, he was a partner at Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver-Wyman) in its communications, information, and entertainment industry practice.  He has also worked at Booz-Allen and Hamilton in a similar capacity.  Before his consulting career, he was at Sprint Corporation (now SprintNextel) as a telecommunications engineer and later as a program manager leading company-wide programs in the areas of intelligent networks and value-added services. 

Shukla holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas at Lawrence, and also a master’s degree in business administration (SM) from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.