Vice President Product-Management / WLAN, SD-Branch und Location Services
Madani Adjali is a Vice President of Product Management at
Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He is responsible for the product
managers and technical marketing engineers associated with
the HPE Aruba Networking Wireless, Branch and Location
Services product lines. He and his team work directly with the
respective product engineering teams on developing new
innovations and addressing customer feature requests as well
as engaging field sales on new customer opportunities.
Seelan Manavalan
Senior Director / Cloud Software Product Management
Over 30+ years of product management, Marketing and engineering experience within a global high-technology environment with track record for building next generation software and networking products that have generated multi-billion dollars in revenue and experience in building telecom and networking products. Lead Aruba’s product management team for Aruba Central, AFC, UXI, AFC, CPDI besides Campus and Datacenter solutions – Dynamic Segmentation and NetConductor.
Paul Goodridge
Vice President Sales / Data-Center-Networking
As HPE continues to evolve it’s Edge to Cloud propositions and establish its market differentiation with its Green Lake Platform; HPE is targeting significant growth for its Data Centre switching portfolio by helping its customers develop Data Centre solutions that are optimised for the challenges associated with creating, managing, and protecting Centres of Data. To that end and aligned with the strategic investments HPE is making in Data Cen-tre Switching; Paul Goodridge joined HPE Aruba Networking at the beginning of HPE’s 2023 fiscal to take ownership of that Go-To-Market and future development of adjacent markets. With a wealth of knowledge and experience Paul intends to remain fo-cused on HPE core switching portfolio and explore the opportuni-ties presented by HPE innovation and partnership to challenge the norm and allow HPE customers to achieve a heightened aware-ness of where and who is accessing and controlling it’s data.
Paul joins HPE from Arista Networks, where he played an instru-mental role in Arista UK and Ireland's growth and enabled a broad breadth of customers spanning financial services, enterprise, ser-vice providers, defence, central government, gaming, and media.
Prior to Arista, Paul setup Xisigo UK (purchased by Oracle), and before then had a Global Sales Management role at BT and Sen-ior Account Management positions within Cisco UK.
Dobias van Ingen
HPE Aruba Networking EMEA CTO & Vice President System Engineering
Dobias van Ingen is the EMEA CTO & Vice President System Engineering for HPE Aruba Networking. As part of this role he is responsible for the complete portfolio of technical solutions that HPE Aruba offers – working closely on the development of new and existing products to ensure that they match the requirements and demands of organizations across such a dynamic and innovative region. With over two decades of experience in the industry and extensive knowledge in networking technology, Dobias is also a member of several technology industry groups.
Lars Hartmann
Vice President Sales Central Europe, HPE Aruba Networking
Lars Hartmann is the Vice President Sales Central Europe for HPE Aruba Networking since November 2022, responsible for networking and security solutions ranging from the datacenter and cloud up to campus- and mobile connectivity.
He has been working in numerous roles, starting @ HP in June 1999 as Key-Account-Manager for Datacenter-Solutions, responsible for Volkswagen AG.
Lars had also served as acting HPN Country-Sales-Manager Germany from June 2009 to July 2010. During the last years before his actual role, he was responsible for some European global customers on a worldwide basis.
Since November 2022, Lars leads the HPE Aruba Networking Business Unit for 30 countries in Central Europe, including Germany, Turkey, Austria, Switzerland, Poland and Czechia..
Shay Shwartz
Security Leader, Secure Service Edge
Shay is a security team leader at Axis, which was recently acquired by HPE. Under Shay's leadership, the team excels in handling security features across a range of products, including the Secure Web Gateway (SWG), the Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), and the cutting-edge agentless Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA).
Shay collaborates closely with the product team, ensuring that the security solutions evolve in tandem with customers' needs, consistently enhancing the security value proposition offered.
Shay has previously worked in multiple cybersecurity roles in the Israeli cyber defence forces, including malware researcher and red teamer.
Katja Herzog
Sales Director Germany, HPE Aruba Networking
Katja Herzog is Sales Director Germany at HPE Aruba Networking since September 1, 2023, responsible for networking and security solutions ranging from the datacenter and cloud up to campus- and mobile connectivity. She has been working in numerous sales roles, starting at HP in April 1996 as Key-Account-Manager. Katja has joined the HPE Networking Unit in January 2008 as Global Account Manager for BMW, Bosch, and Siemens. From 2015 until now, she was Director Public Sector at HPE Aruba Networking in Germany.
