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Rob Quiros

Enabling enterprise adoption of GenAI with granular access control to RAG Data | Engineering/Physics BSEE MSEE | Product & Marketing Leader | $1B/yr CSCO | $750M/yr Riverbed | >$3B/yr SASE/Zero Trust market Soha (AKAM)

Menlo Park, California

Overview 

Rob Quiros is a seasoned product and marketing leader with a track record of success in companies like Cisco Systems and Riverbed, where he managed multi-billion-dollar revenue streams. He played a key role in enabling enterprise adoption of GenAI and SASE/Zero Trust market solutions, showcasing expertise in product strategy and business development. Having held executive roles at Soha Systems and Riverbed, Rob Quiros has demonstrated a strong ability to drive product innovation and market growth in the cybersecurity and enterprise software sectors, with a focus on artificial intelligence and cloud security technologies.

Work Experience 

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Caber Systems, Inc.

  • Co-Founder

    2024 - Current

Caber Systems (v1)

  • Co-Founder

    2019 - 2021

    Pioneered a new approach to API security tracking the data moving on the network to provide visibility and authorization with no agents or code changes required. Startup was shut down during Covid.

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Soha Systems (acquired by Akamai)

  • Vice President Marketing & Products

    2014 - 2019

    At the intersection of Identity Management and Application Delivery, Soha pioneered a better way of providing access to enterprise applications running in any cloud or legacy infrastructure. Now part of Akamai (AKAM). * Gartner Cool Vendor 2016 - Cloud and Emerging Technology Security * Hottest Products at VMworld 2015 - Network World * Hottest Products at AWS re:Invent 2015 - Network World

Graphite Systems, Inc. (acquired by EMC)

  • Executive Advisor

    2014 - 2014

    Helped this high-performance server/flash array system startup with early marketing, positioning, and product priorities before their acquisition by EMC.

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Riverbed Technology

  • Vice President Product Management

    2005 - 2013

    Drove Riverbed's Steelhead product portfolio from version 1.0 to number 1 in the market growing and expanding the business across multiple market segments from 100 customers and pre-IPO revenues of $4M to over 17000 customers and $750M annual run rate. Held Riverbed's leadership position on Gartner's Magic Quadrant for six years in a row.

Riverbed Technology is an information technology company that develops network and application performance software.

Raised $28,400,000.00 from TA Capital, La Maison Compagnie d'Investissement, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, Accel, BYU Cougar Capital, Meritech Capital Partners and Pelion Venture Partners.

riverbed.com

Packethop

  • Director Marketing

    2004 - 2005

    Combined product management and marketing leadership for this pioneering startup in mobile wireless mesh networking. Coordinated the first-ever practical trial of mobile mesh technology with multiple government agencies comprising the Golden Gate Safety Network.

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Force10 Networks

  • Director Product Marketing

    2001 - 2003

    Led product management then outbound marketing in this 240 person 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch/router pioneer.

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Cisco Systems

  • Product Line Manager

    1996 - 2000

    Successfully transformed Cisco 7500/7200 core router product line to dominate Internet Service Provider edge routing market; developed and grew incremental $1 billion per year revenue stream for Cisco.

Cisco DevNet is your source for everything developer at Cisco Systems.

developer.cisco.com

Siya Telecom

  • Entrepreneur

    1994 - 1995

    Invented simultaneous voice over data solution for service providers using advanced digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms. U.S. Patent 5,604,771 Feb. 1997.

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UC Berkeley

  • Research Engineer

    1989 - 1990

    Worked on the first RAID storage system as member U.C. Berkeley team responsible for original RAID technology.

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