Biography:

Mittal Parekh is Senior Director of Product and Solutions Marketing at HPE. He leads global go-to-market strategy, positioning, and storytelling for HPE’s campus and branch networking portfolio, spanning HPE Aruba Networking and Juniper Mist. He shapes the market narrative and growth strategy for secure, AI-native networking, advancing HPE’s vision for self-driving networks while aligning product, sales, and partner ecosystems to accelerate customer transformation across enterprise and service provider markets.

Before joining HPE, Mittal served as Global Head of Product Marketing, Technical Marketing, and Solutions Engineering at RUCKUS Networks (now a Belden brand), where he led AI-driven, multi-access networking solutions for enterprises and service providers worldwide. He also served on the Board of Directors of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) and contributed to its Market and AI/ML work groups, helping shape the future of broadband innovation.

Drawing on more than two decades of leadership across product marketing, product management, strategy, and engineering, Mittal has held executive roles spanning networking, cybersecurity, enterprise mobility, cloud infrastructure, virtualization, and identity management. His career includes leadership positions at Citrix and Hewlett-Packard, where he drove go-to-market strategy, product innovation, and business growth across enterprise technology portfolios. He began his career at Adobe Systems, contributing to some of the industry’s early SaaS innovations.

Mittal holds a B.E. in Computer Engineering, an M.S. in Computer Science, and an MBA from Cornell University.