BWI: Aruba Networks, Inc. Appoints Dharmendra Kumar as President for India and SAARC

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Source: Aruba Networks, Inc
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:00 PM IST (06:30 AM GMT)
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Aruba Networks, Inc. Appoints Dharmendra Kumar as President for India and SAARC


Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Tuesday, January 24, 2012 -- (Business Wire India) -- Aruba Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARUN), India's leading enterprise wireless networking company, today announced the appointment of Dharmendra Kumar as President - India and SAARC, to drive Aruba's next stage of business growth in India. Dharmendra will report in to Gary Jackson, Vice President - Sales, Asia-Pacific/ Japan, Aruba Networks.

"India is today one of Aruba's key global growth markets. Dharmendra's extensive experience in the Indian networking industry is a significant advantage for us in maintaining market leadership and further growing our share in the wireless networking segment." said Jackson.

"It is a privilege to work with the global and Indian market leader in enterprise wireless networking. We see tremendous potential in India's growing demand for enterprise wireless solutions. I welcome this tremendous opportunity to take the company to the next level of success in this fast-growth market." said Kumar.

Prior to Aruba, Dharmendra Kumar was the Regional Sales Director at EMC for two years, with key responsibility for the storage and backup businesses. His responsibilities included running the business, ensuring smooth coordination between the sales, pre-sales, channels and support functions to deliver topline results and maintain business health. In his career span of 22 years, he has also worked in diverse capacities across companies like Datacraft, Force10 Networks, D-Link, and Cisco.

Significant career milestones include setting up Force10 Networks business in India, along with its channels and distribution network. He was responsible for Cisco bagging ones of it largest MPLS nations wide deployment with the incumbent Telco and later also established Cisco's government and defence vertical practice, growing it to over USD 35 million in just a year.

Dharmendra has a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) degree in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka.

About Aruba Networks, Inc.

Aruba Networks is a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. The company's Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) architecture unifies wired and wireless network infrastructures into one seamless access solution for corporate headquarters, mobile business professionals, remote workers and guests. This unified approach to access networks dramatically improves productivity and lowers capital and operational costs.

In India, Aruba Networks has offices in Delhi, Mumbai , Kolkata, Chennai and Bengaluru. With a fast growing sales and pre-sales team, Aruba Networks caters to key verticals such as hospitality, higher education, retail, and corporates with 500+ employees across 4 to 5 locations. It has an R&D Centre in Bengaluru with approximately 200 employees.

Listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000® Index, Aruba is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has operations throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions. To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com. For real-time news updates follow Aruba on Twitter and Facebook.

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