Leadership

Our vision is to empower our customers to provide the most secure and available digital experience.

Our mission is to help enterprises and service providers build business-critical networks and applications that are secure, available, and efficient.

Our core values are:

  • Customer-centricity. We are customer-centric in everything we do.
  • Innovation. We provide innovative and bold solutions for better business outcomes.
  • Collaboration. We collaborate to win together.

Dhrupad Trivedi

President and Chief Executive Officer

Dhrupad Trivedi joined A10 Networks in December 2019 as president and chief executive officer. From 2010 to 2019, Dr. Trivedi served in multiple roles as executive vice president at Belden including Tripwire, corporate development, network solutions platform and Trapeze Networks. Prior to this, he held multiple general management and corporate development roles at JDS Uniphase. Trivedi holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from University of Alabama and an MBA in finance from Duke University. Trivedi brings global leadership experience across multiple businesses and is passionate about driving leading technology businesses to win by creating value for customers.

Dhrupad Trivedi

Karen Thomas

Karen Thomas

Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing

Karen Thomas joined A10 Networks in September 2023 as executive vice president, global sales and marketing. Thomas previously served as chief growth officer at Alegeus Technologies, the leading provider of SaaS-based benefit funding and payment solutions from March 2020 until joining A10. At Alegeus Technologies, she led the organization to achieve consistent double-digit growth with an enterprise and channel-based strategy. Prior to Alegeus, Thomas was with Teradata Corporation as executive vice president, Americas sales and services where she led the transformation of the company’s go-to-market team to an enterprise value-based solution sales organization delivering predictable revenue growth. She was with Teradata for over 27 years in roles spanning finance, marketing, operations, customer support, professional services, and sales leadership. Thomas is passionate about delivering value to customers through industry-leading technology solutions that support better business outcomes. She holds an honours bachelor of business administration from Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.

Brian Becker

Brian Becker

CFO

Brian Becker joined A10 Networks as Vice President and Corporate Controller in 2018 and was appointed CFO in September 2020. Prior to joining the company, Becker served as Vice President, Accounting and Corporate Controller for YuMe, Inc. a provider of brand video advertising software and audience data, from June 2014 to December 2017, and as Director, Revenue and Cost Accounting from August 2013 to June 2014. He also served in various roles within Revenue Accounting at Symantec Corporation, a cybersecurity software and services company, from 2010 through 2012. Becker began his career in public accounting at Ernst & Young, LLP in San Jose, is a certified public accountant licensed by the California Board of Accountancy and holds a B.A. in business economics from University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mikko Disini

Mikko Disini

Vice President, Product Line Management

Mikko Disini leads product management and product strategy for A10 Networks. Disini joined A10 from Citrix, where he was senior director, responsible for the cloud-native and modernized apps initiative for Citrix ADC (formerly Citrix NetScaler). He founded and grew the Kubernetes solutions, achieving over 200 customer adoptions and wins and drove the technology into new buying centers.

Previously, Disini led product management of Citrix’s software ADCs for private and public cloud, growing their adoption through innovation across the enterprise. He also took charge to penetrate mobile and fixed-line markets for NetScaler and ByteMobile (acquired by Citrix) that led to winning business in Tier 1 and 2 telcos.

Mikko holds a BS and M.Engr in electrical engineering from Cornell University.

Andrew Kim

Andrew Kim

Vice President of Worldwide Human Resources

As Vice President of Worldwide Human Resources, Andrew Kim leads the team responsible for strategic people operations, including attracting, developing and rewarding a global workforce and employee engagement. Andrew joined A10 in June 2016 and has assumed increased responsibilities for the HR transformation. Andrew brings over 20 years’ experience as an HR leader at publicly-held technology companies including RingCentral, Calix, Marvell Semiconductor, Fortinet, PerkinElmer, and Applied Materials where he led their HR business partners, training, and talent acquisition teams. Andrew holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa.

Eric Kwok

Eric Kwok

Vice President of Worldwide Support and Services

Eric Kwok joined A10 Networks in February 2014 and is responsible for technical support, professional services, training and content development. He has 25 years of experience in the networking industry and has held senior management and technical support engineering positions in a variety of technology companies such as Brocade (through the Foundry Networks acquisition), AT&T, Verizon and IBM. He is also a partner with XF Ventures, a team of former Foundry Networks Executives who provide access to seed capital along with technical help, operational expertise and strategic mentorship to promising business teams and start-ups. Eric holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University.

Sean Pike

Sean Pike

Head of Information Security

Sean Pike leads cybersecurity and product security for A10 Networks. Pike has 25 years of experience leading and scaling cybersecurity practices across regulated industry and critical infrastructure. Most recently, he served as CISO at Business Wire, where he was responsible for transforming the security and compliance organizations to meet the needs of a globally distributed SaaS newswire. Prior to Business Wire, Pike held leadership positions at VMware, IDC, and Nielsen Radio. His work at A10 includes aligning cybersecurity, product security, and security compliance initiatives to business goals. Pike holds a JD in law from Syracuse University and a M.S. in telecommunications and network management from Syracuse University.

Bret Sloan

Bret Sloan

Head of Global Operations

Bret Sloan joined A10 Networks in November 2017 as Director of Global Supply-Chain Operations and was appointed as Head of Operations in August 2021. Sloan’s global senior management positions span over two decades and bring expertise to the entire value chain. The current responsibilities at A10 include supply chain, demand planning, environmental compliance, real estate, and facilities. Before A10, Sloan has held several senior Operations/Supply-Chain and technical/compliance management positions at Brocade Communications, Foundry Networks, and Silicon Graphics. Operational excellence and continuous improvement initiatives are where Bret Sloan is particularly strong. Bret holds an Electrical Engineering degree (EE) from the ABET-accredited engineering program.

Sctt Weber

Scott Weber

General Counsel

Scott Weber joined A10 Networks as general counsel, corporate secretary and executive vice president in June 2022. Weber has over thirty years of legal experience, most recently with Workday where he spent three years managing a dedicated commercial legal team in support of the North America large sales organization and Workday’s global contracts operations team. Prior to Workday, Weber served as Lumina Networks’ general counsel in San Jose, Calif. after relocating from Singapore where he had spent 10 years leading Juniper Networks’ Asian Legal department. His work at A10 includes oversight of A10’s legal and corporate compliance-related activities. Weber has a JD in law from Southern Methodist University and a BA from Emory University.

Aris Wong

Aris Wong

Vice President of Worldwide Engineering

Aris Wong has been with A10 Networks since March 2011. He leads the global engineering team responsible for architecture and product delivery. Wong has 25 years of experience in developing technology products that have powered the world’s most demanding customers’ networks and cloud environments. He has contributed over the years as a technical leader, engineering manager and engineering operations leader, and is most recently involved as part of A10 leadership team focusing on building strong talent and expertise in the engineering teams around the world. Prior to joining A10, Wong held senior engineering and management positions at Cisco Systems, Foundry Networks, Brocade and F5 Networks. He holds a B.Eng. in electrical and electronics engineering with first honor from University of Hong Kong, holds 23 patents and was a speaker and panelist at NANOG 42.