The person in picture is Pradeep Sindhu .the company founded by him was Juniper Networks.
Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology and computer networking products multinational company, founded in 1996. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, USA. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. Juniper's products include T-series, M-series, E-series, MX-series, and J-series families of routers, EX-series Ethernet switches, WX-series WAN optimization devices, and SRC Session and Resource Control appliances. JUNOS , Juniper's network operating system runs on most of the Juniper products. In 2009, Juniper made debut on Fortune Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work for.
Juniper Networks was founded by Pradeep Sindhu, Dennis Ferguson, and Bjorn Liencres in February 1996 in California, USA. Juniper Networks was the creation of computer scientist Pradeep Sindhu, once principal scientist of Xerox's renowned Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), who in 1995 left for a vacation and returned with a concept for a new company that would build reliable, high-performance routers to support the quickly emerging Internet. Sindhu started the company in February 1996 with $200,000 in seed money from powerful venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. He hired two other engineers, Bjorn Liencres from Sun Microsystems and Dennis Ferguson from MCI. For business expertise, Sindhu recruited Scott Kriens, co-founder of StrataCom, a leading supplier of switching equipment sold in July 1996 to Cisco for US$4.67 billion.
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