Jyoti Bansal was the founding CEO of AppDynamics which was acquired by Cisco for $3.7b earlier this year. Jyoti founded AppDynamics in 2008 with the vision of "Application Intelligence" to help modern enterprises embark on their journey of digital transformation with a disruptive approach to managing their software applications.

Jyoti has been a recipient of many leadership awards. In 2013, he was selected by Forbes as a "Best Cloud Computing CEO to Work For." In 2014, he was named "Best CEO" by San Francisco Business Times at the Annual Tech & Innovation Awards, was an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2014 & 2015 Award Finalist in Northern California, and received the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2016 Award in the Technology category in Northern California.

Before founding AppDynamics in 2008, Jyoti held engineering roles at various Silicon Valley startups, including Wily Technology, Inc. (acquired by CA, Inc.), Datasweep, Inc. (acquired by Rockwell Automation Inc.), and netLens Inc. (acquired by NextPage Inc., and subsequently acquired in part by FAST Search and Transfer ASA, later acquired by Microsoft Corporation). Jyoti received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

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