John Spiegel has 25 years of experience running global networks and managing infrastructure. He is an industry pioneer in software-defined networking (SDN) and software-defined WANs (SD-WAN). John has spoken on the topic of network transformation at industry conferences such as Gartner, InterOp, VMWorld, Palo Alto Networks Ignite, Evanta, and Dataconnectors, as well as executive roundtable discussions. He has also been a customer advisor to companies like VMware, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco Systems. Disruptive startups have also leveraged John's knowledge to bring products to market, resulting in successful exits. He is currently the Director of Strategy/Field CTO, HPE Aruba Networking SSE. John is also the co-host of the SSE Forum's podcast called "The Edge."