Meraki Management Team

Sanjit Biswas is responsible for Meraki’s strategic direction and day-to-day operations. He is currently on leave from the Ph.D. program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he co-led the research project that won several academic awards and later became the foundation of Meraki’s wireless mesh technology. Sanjit holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford, and an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

John Bicket is responsible for the technical direction and development of Meraki. John was most recently a Ph.D. student in the Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group at MIT, where he co-led the research project that later became Meraki. John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and an S.M. degree in Computer Science from MIT.

Hans Robertson is responsible for Meraki’s product and service definition and strategy. Hans most recently led a product management team at EMC that brought a new virtualization system to market. He was also an early member of the sales and business development team at VMware, where he created their first partner programs. Hans began his career as a business analyst at McKinsey & Co. and holds an S.B. and M.Eng in Computer Science from MIT.

Ben Calderon brings over 15 years experience in operations and product development in the electronics industry. Ben came to Meraki from Apple Inc, where he managed OEM partners, notebook product launches, and iPod supply chains.

While at Applied Materials, Ben helped launch new semiconductor equipment products with customers such as AMD, Hynix, TSMC, UMC, and Micron. Ben holds a S.B. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, M.B.A. from Stanford, and a certificate from the Stanford Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing.

Andy is responsible for the key customer and partner relationships that help to fuel Meraki’s growth. Previous to Meraki, Andy spent six years at Nokia, the leading worldwide mobile phone manufacturer with US 70B in sales. At Nokia Andy was responsible for initiating, negotiating and maintaining relationships that supplied Nokia products and solutions to the North American enterprise and business-to-business retail market, generating over US 150M annually. Andy holds a BA degree from University of California, Irvine in Political Science, and both a Masters in Business Administration and a doctorate degree in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University.