Draft:Mohit Lad

Mohit Lad is an Indian born American entrepreneur who co-founded ThousandEyes (an Internet monitoring company) in 2010. ThousandEyes raised over $110 million in venture investments and was acquired by Cisco in 2020 for a reported $1 billion USD, after which Lad served as Senior Vice President/General Manager at Cisco till June 2024.

Early Life and Education
Lad was born in Mumbai, grew up in Nashik and finished his Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering at Sardar Patel Institute of Technology in Mumbai. Lad received a Masters and Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Los Angeles. His Ph.D. advisor was Lixia Zhang and his doctoral thesis was on Visualizing and Troubleshooting Internet Outages.

Career
In 2010, Lad started ThousandEyes with Ricardo Oliveira whom he had worked with during his Ph.D. program at UCLA. Lad and Oliveira re-used discarded servers by companies closing down during the 2010 crash to build their first datacenter in the garage. In 2020, Cisco acquired ThousandEyes for a reported $1 billion USD. Post acquisition, Lad was SVP/GM at Cisco till June 2024.

Lad served on the board for Groove Inc., a company in Sales Engagement that was acquired by Clari, Inc.

Lad was also active with North American Network Operators' Group and served on it's Program Committee for 4 years between 2012-2018.