Abe Ankumah leads the product marketing and partnerships team for VMware SD-WAN and SASE business. Abe joined VMware via Nyansa, a fast-growing innovator of AI-based network analytics, acquired by VMware in February 2020, where he was CEO and Co-Founder. Abe's career has spanned a broad spectrum in technology and enterprise IT. Prior to Nyansa, Abe was Director of Products and Alliances at Meraki (acquired by Cisco for $1.2B in 2012). Before Meraki, Abe worked in the office of the CEO at Aruba Networks, where he was responsible for Product and Business Operations. Earlier in his career, Abe was part of the founding engineering team at Fulcrum Microsystems (acquired by Intel), a fabless semiconductor company and a leader in the low-latency switching market. Abe started his career as a research engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Abe holds a BS degree from Caltech and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.