About Kash Iftikhar:
Kash serves as the Senior Vice President / GM for Oracle ACS Services for North America. In this role, Kash manages all aspects of the services business for Oracle’s 1200+ North America customers, including sales and delivery. Prior to this role at Oracle, Kash served as the Vice President Strategy, Product Management, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). He helped launch the OCI platform and migrated the initial customers to OCI, driving high customer satisfaction and exponentially growing the cloud business for Oracle.
Before joining Oracle, Kash was part of the founding team for PLUMGrid, a leading Software Defined Networking (SDN) startup. Over the 4 years at PLUMgrid, Kash led the creation of the product, to its successful operations by the largest Telecom and enterprise customers globally. PLUMgrid was acquired by VMware in 2016.
Kash also led Dell’s Network Business for North America. At Dell, Kash was responsible for sales and integration of various Dell network products for enterprise, public sector and small/medium businesses. Kash came to Dell as a result of the acquisition of Force10 Networks, leader of high-performance networking platform, where he was VP of Sales and Services for the Americas and contributed significantly to Force10’s data center strategy and product direction. He built the company’s sales and systems engineering team, diversifying the business by developing a channels field organization, and leading Force10 to its largest sales revenue growth and consequent acquisition by Dell. Kash also served at Cisco for seven years in lead roles in customer advocacy, sales/product engineering and sales management. During this time, he helped design some of the largest data centers and complex enterprise networking environments for Fortune 500 companies.
Kash holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and from UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School. He earned his MS degree in Computer Engineering from Purdue University.