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Paul Daugherty
AI Advisory Chair, TPG, and former CEO of Accenture TechnologyPaul Daugherty
AI Advisory Chair, TPG, and former CEO of Accenture TechnologyPaul Daugherty retired in August as Accenture's Chief Technology and Innovation Officer (CTIO), and is a member of Accenture’s Global Management Committee. As a visionary in shaping the innovation of technology, Paul led and executed Accenture’s technology strategy, leveraging the company’s leading-edge capabilities and research and development to reinvent the future of business.
As CTIO, Paul also led Accenture’s Innovation strategy and organization, including Accenture Labs and The Dock in Dublin, Ireland. He directed Accenture’s global research and development into emerging technology areas such as generative AI, quantum computing, science tech and space technology. He led a dedicated innovation group that not only designs and delivers transformational business and technology solutions, but also invested in, and partnered with, pioneering companies to pilot and incubate new technologies. Paul also led Accenture’s annual Technology Vision report, hosted its annual Innovation Forum event, and led Accenture Ventures, which he founded to focus on strategic equity investments to accelerate growth.
Previously, Paul served as Accenture's Group Chief Executive – Technology, where he led all aspects of Accenture's Technology business. In this role, he led the formation of Accenture Cloud First to help clients across every industry accelerate their digital transformation and realize greater value at speed and scale by rapidly becoming “cloud first” businesses. He oversaw the launch of the Accenture Metaverse Continuum business group, which focuses market-leading capabilities in customer experience, digital commerce, extended reality, blockchain, digital twins, artificial intelligence and computer vision to help clients design, execute and accelerate their metaverse journeys. Most recently, he helped lay the groundwork for Accenture’s $3 billion investment in its Data & AI practice to help clients rapidly and responsibly advance and use AI, including Generative AI, to achieve greater growth, efficiency and resilience.
Paul is a passionate advocate for gender equality in the workplace and STEM-related inclusion and diversity initiatives. For more than six years, he has been a member of the board of directors of Girls Who Code, an organization that seeks to support and increase the number of women in computer science careers.
Paul serves on the board of directors of Avanade, the leading provider of Microsoft technology services. He also serves on the boards of the Computer History Museum and the Computer Science and Engineering program at the University of Michigan.
In 2023, Paul received the prestigious St. Patrick’s Day Science Medal for Industry from Science Foundation Ireland as well as a nomination to Thinkers50, a ranking of the world’s most influential management thinkers. He also accepted the FASPE Award for Ethical Leadership in 2019 for his work in applying ethical principles to the development and use of artificial intelligence technologies.
Paul is co-author of two highly acclaimed books: Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI (Harvard Business Review Press, 2018), a management playbook for the business of artificial intelligence; and Radically Human: How New Technology is Transforming Business and Shaping Our Future (Harvard Business Review Press, April 2022).
Paul joined Accenture in 1986. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan.
Extreme Leaders
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Ed Meyercord
President and CEO of Extreme NetworksEd Meyercord
President and CEO of Extreme NetworksMr. Meyercord has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Extreme since April 2015. He joined our Board of Directors as an independent director in October 2009 and served as Chairman from March 2011 through August 2015.
Prior to assuming an operating role at Extreme, Mr. Meyercord was Chief Executive Officer and Director at Critical Alert Systems, LLC, a software-driven, healthcare information technology company that he co-founded in July of 2010. Previously, Mr. Meyercord served as CEO, President and Director of both Cavalier Telephone & TV, a privately held voice, video and data services company with an extensive fiber network; and Talk America, Inc., a publicly traded company that provided phone and internet services to consumers and small businesses throughout the U.S.
Mr. Meyercord was also a Vice President in the investment banking division of Salomon Brothers (now Citigroup), and previously served on the board of Tollgrade Communications, Inc.
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Nabil Bukhari
President of AI Platforms and EVP, Chief Technology Officer of Extreme NetworksNabil Bukhari
President of AI Platforms and EVP, Chief Technology Officer of Extreme NetworksNabil Bukhari is a futurist and business leader working at the crossroads of technology, industry, and human impact.
As President of AI Platforms and Chief Technology Officer at Extreme Networks, he leads the company’s vision for transforming networks into intelligent systems that anticipate, adapt, and advance the way people and organizations connect. In his dual role, Nabil oversees Extreme’s global engineering, product, and Office of the CTO functions, shaping the strategy and innovation behind the company’s AI-driven platform.
A believer in technology’s potential to improve the human condition, Nabil is focused on building scalable, ethical, and accessible AI ecosystems that deliver real-world value. His leadership combines deep technical insight with a pragmatic understanding of business transformation, turning bold ideas into outcomes that make technology work for people.
With a career that spans entrepreneurial ventures and executive roles at global technology leaders, Nabil brings decades of experience driving innovation across cloud, networking, and software. He holds degrees in Engineering, Arts, and Business, and has studied at the London School of Economics, NYU Stern, and HEC Paris.
Nabil continues to define an AI-powered future that is both powerful and profoundly human. -
Monica Kumar
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Extreme NetworksMonica Kumar
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of Extreme NetworksMonica Kumar is the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Extreme Networks, leading the company’s go-to-market strategy and global marketing organization focused on initiatives that elevate the company’s brand and unique value proposition to drive customer and revenue growth.
With more than 20 years of experience in enterprise technology, Monica has an extensive history of accelerating growth through compelling product differentiation as well as championing business transformation, sustainability, and equity initiatives. She is a passionate advocate for inclusion and belonging and supports those initiatives as an active board member for UPWARD Women and City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley, and as a founding member of Neythri Futures Fund.
Prior to joining Extreme, Monica served as CMO at Hitachi Vantara, where she launched Hitachi’s new brand strategy and narrative, and led a product simplification strategy that brought the company’s portfolio of data storage products together into one easy-to-consume, scalable, and resilient platform. Previously, she served as SVP of Marketing and Cloud go-to-market at Nutanix and spent more than 20 years at Oracle in a variety of marketing roles, most notably as the CMO of the Oracle Data Management and Database Cloud business.
Monica has a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Malaviya National Institute of Technology India and an MBA from San Jose State University.
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Anisha Vaswani
Chief Information and Customer Officer of Extreme NetworksAnisha Vaswani
Chief Information and Customer Officer of Extreme NetworksAnisha Vaswani spearheads the development and implementation of Extreme’s overall IT strategy, ensuring that technology investments support the company’s business objectives and growth. Vaswani drives internal innovation and customer success for the company by acting as “Extreme’s Customer ONE,” testing and validating Extreme’s products and solutions before rolling them out to customers.
Vaswani engages with customers to complete successful technology migrations and deliver significant value add, prioritizing long-term customer relationships, loyalty, and retention.
Before joining Extreme, she served in several CIO roles at prominent companies such as IDG, Box, Toast, Inc., and Shockwave Medical. At Shockwave Medical, she helped the company scale operations and grow annual revenue to $1B. As CIO of Toast, she guided the company through the IPO process and played a role in growing the company from $1B in revenue to over $3B in annual revenue. She holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems from San Jose State University.
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