Amar Kapadia

  • CEO and Co-founder at Aarna Networks
Amar Kapadia | Aarna Networks

Amar Kapadia is co-founder and CEO of Aarna Networks. Aarna solves enterprise edge and private 5G management complexity through zero-touch edge infrastructure, applications, and network services orchestration at scale.

Prior to Aarna, Amar was the NFV product marketing head at Mirantis. Before Mirantis, he was responsible for defining and launching EVault’s public cloud storage service (acquired by Seagate) based on OpenStack Swift and a variety of marketing and engineering leadership positions at Emulex, Philips, and HP. Amar is also the author of the ONAP Demystified book and holds an MS EE degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

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