Ash Bhalgat is the senior director of Cloud, Telco, and Cybersecurity Market Development for Networking at NVIDIA. He leads partner solutions, marketing, and ecosystem business development to drive the company’s networking portfolio revenue and market share growth. Bhalgat has 20+ years of high-tech industry experience building and marketing multibillion-dollar revenue products at Cisco, Polycom, and Mellanox for enterprise, service provider, and cloud customers. During these years, he has dabbled in many technologies, from data centers and cloud-native computing to network management and mobile apps. Bhalgat earned a Master of Science in computer engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA in marketing and entrepreneurship from Santa Clara University. He has presented at many industry and technology forums and has published research papers on compilers at ACM conferences.