Jim has more than 20 years of experience building and leading effective teams and has created software that powers communications systems. Prior to co-founding and becoming CEO of Nirmata, Jim was among the original architects and business leaders within Cisco’s cloud automation practice, where he helped grow revenues to over $250M and IDC recognized the practice as #1 in global cloud services.Prior to his work at Cisco, Jim led engineering teams at startups including Pano Logic, a desktop virtualization startup; Trapeze Networks, a wireless pioneer; and Jetstream Communications, a telecom equipment manufacturer.