Dr. Greg Lavender joined Arista's board in March 2025 and serves on the Audit Committee. He was chief technology officer of Intel Corporation from November 2023 to June 2025, having previously served as Intel's corporate CTO and head of its Software and Advanced Technology Group, and before that held senior technology roles at VMware, Citigroup, Cisco Systems and Sun Microsystems. He holds a B.S. from the University of Georgia and an M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Virginia Tech and also serves on the board of Nutanix.