Speaker Bio
Ankur Prakash has been a Partner at Liberty Global Ventures since 2012. He focuses on investments in the areas of enterprise software, cloud, mobility, core infrastructure and AI. Some of Ankur’s notable investments include Aviatrix, Awake Security (ACQD: Arista Netwotks), Guavus (ACQD: Thales), Lacework, Mindmeld (ACQD: Cisco), Mojo Vision, Plume and Versa Networks.
As a Silicon Valley veteran, Ankur has held leadership roles in engineering, product management and strategy functions at various companies including Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent and Juniper Networks. Prior to Liberty Global, Ankur was responsible for Juniper’s core routing technology platform. As part of Juniper’s venture investment team, he worked on investments in Violin Memory (VMEM), Vidyo and FireEye (FEYE). In 2003, Ankur was a founding engineer at NetDevices, where he led the development of the industry’s first converged gateway product for mid to large enterprises. NetDevices was acquired by Alcatel-Lucent in 2006, and Ankur led the engineering and development of the Access products portfolio.
Ankur holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management, a MS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India.