Dave Ward Bio

Mr.Ward is an industry pioneer, having most recently served as CTO and Chief Architect of Cisco’s ~$50 Billion networking business. He is one of two individuals to be both Cisco and Juniper Fellows, during a distinguished career where he has overseen the development of innovations covering networking orchestration & automation, virtualized & cloud-native services, cloud networking & security. Mr. Ward has unique expertise in 5G and IoT technologies that are important to Digital Alpha’s investment strategy. Mr. Ward currently serves as CEO of Packet Fabric.