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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,[1] after which Lad served as Senior Vice President/General Manager at Cisco till June 2024.

Early Life and Education

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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

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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.[2] In 2020, Cisco acquired ThousandEyes for a reported $1 billion USD[1]. 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.

References

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  1. ^ a b Novet, Ari Levy,Jordan (2020-05-28). "Cisco acquires ThousandEyes for around $1 billion to make deeper push into software". CNBC. Retrieved 2024-06-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ "These guys built a $273 million startup from discarded computers and an almost secret source of seed money". Yahoo Finance. 2016-11-05. Retrieved 2024-06-07.