John is the CTO and Co-Founder of Samsara, a company that enables businesses with physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations. He co-founded the company with the mission to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. He is responsible for Samsara's disruptive technology that makes operating thousands of sensors simple and secure.

Prior to co-founding Samsara, John co-founded Meraki, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering. At Meraki, he led the Meraki technical team and built a cloud-based platform that combines analytics, big data, and security that transformed how customers deployed and managed wifi and networking infrastructure. Originating from his research while a Ph. D. student at MIT, John and his team built integrated hardware, software, and cloud-based services that became the most widely deployed cloud managed edge networking platform. Meraki's product lines spanning wifi, switching, routing, firewalls, and mobile-device-management scaled to connect hundreds of millions of network devices across more than 140 countries. After Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion, John led Meraki as Cisco's fastest-growing cloud product and one of Cisco’s most successful acquisitions.

John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT.

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