Sonal Puri

Sonal is the Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Aryaka Networks. She has more than 15 years of experience with Internet Infrastructure in corporate and business development, channels, sales, and technical marketing. Previously, Sonal headed business development and corporate strategy for both the Application Acceleration business unit at Akamai Technologies, and the Akamai Corporate Development team for Western US working on mergers and acquisitions. She was responsible for Akamai's $15M acquisition of Red Swoosh. Sonal managed global business operations, channels, and business development for Speedera Networks, and ultimately ran the acquisition process for Speedera, which was acquired in 2005 by Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) for a stock transaction worth more than $500 million. She has also held key management roles in sales, marketing and IT at Inktomi, CAS and Euclid. Sonal was a speaker and panelist at a number of key conferences such as SaaSCon and the Aberdeen Summit. Sonal holds a graduate degree in building science from the University of Southern California, and an undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Mumbai, India.