Mihir Maniar is currently Vice President of Products leading the Citrix Application Delivery (ADC), SD-WAN and Security Portfolio across hybrid multi-clouds, cloud native deployments, and cloud based delivery models.

Mihir is a seasoned business and technology leader with over 25 years of experience. He has a successful track record in building high-performance teams and delivering innovative and market-leading product lines.

Mihir joined Citrix in Aug 2018 from Juniper where he was the Vice President of Products for 3.5 years and was brought in to lead the turnaround of the Security business across Enterprise/Cloud/SP segments, and incubate a Cloud Delivered Enterprise portfolio for Secure SD-WAN, SD-Access and Security.

Prior to Juniper, Mihir spent 16 years at Cisco where he held increasingly senior Product leadership roles across various business units with most recently being the Senior Director of Product Management/Marketing for the Network Software group. Mihir was responsible for Cisco’s Software Strategy across Datacenter/Cloud, Enterprise, Service Provider, L4-L7 services, SDN and Platform APIs contributing to $20B+ in annual revenue. Prior to Cisco, Mihir was at Zeitnet, an early stage VC funded startup with a successful exit.

Mihir holds an Master’s degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Texas and a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Bombay (VJTI). Mihir is a self-proclaimed health-foodie and avid runner. He is married with two teenagers.