Patak comes to Nile from Ubiquicia, a leading provider of intelligent infrastructure, where he served as CRO and, in three short years, grew revenue by over 600% with more than 500 customers. In his new role at Nile, Patak will be responsible for all aspects of go-to-market strategy, global sales, sales operations, and sales enablement.
Kaul joins Nile from Juniper Networks, where she served as Global Vice President of SaaS Products and Customer Experience (CX) and built the company’s customer success program from the ground up. Once established, her new program was able to drive a holistic strategy for customer acquisition, growth, and retention, resulting in significant increases in customer lifetime value. She was also able to improve customer efficiency, dramatically reducing support and service costs through automation and generative AI-based self-service platforms. At Nile, she will be responsible for global customer success, customer support, and service delivery.
“With Stephen and Surbhi, we have two rare executives who have seen success across a diverse set of markets and companies,” said
Patak comes to Nile with over twenty years of sales and leadership experience. Before his roles at Nile and Ubiquicia, he served as SVP of
“Nile is more than just another enterprise network vendor,” said Patak. “Its vision for the transformation of this market is the most compelling value proposition I’ve come across in my entire career. I’m incredibly excited to lead the execution of this vision together with Pankaj and the rest of the team at Nile.”
Kaul brings over 20 years of experience in customer success and product management to Nile. She started her journey in the networking industry at HP, Cisco, and Force10 Networks and went on to build and launch the very first Networking products at GCP (Google Cloud Platform). Venturing into the consumer space, she led YouTube and Google Home initiatives and launched multiple groundbreaking products, incorporating cutting-edge AI and machine learning technologies. A fervent advocate for inclusion and diversity, Surbhi spearheaded Global Inclusion & Diversity initiatives at Juniper, including Women@Juniper ERG. She leads the
“Nile is one of those ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ opportunities to transform an entire industry,” said Kaul. Their pioneering use of AI to disrupt the existing enterprise network paradigm is very exciting. I’m looking forward to leveraging my deep experience in building new customer experiences with Nile’s new approach.”
About the Nile Access Service
The Nile Access Service is powered by a new approach to enterprise AI networking that is within reach for all businesses, whether they have five people or 50,000. This visionary model combines cloud native software delivery, AI and automation, zero-trust networking security, and custom-built wired, wireless, and sensor network infrastructure in an “as-a-Service” offering. Unlike legacy, product-centric Network-as-a-Service (
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About Nile:
Nile is disrupting the enterprise network market by modernizing IT operations with a new AI networking architecture, delivering enterprise networks entirely as a service. For the first time in the industry, the Nile Access Service integrates zero-trust security and offers performance guarantees for connectivity, coverage, and availability. With Nile, IT organizations close the gap between their digital aspirations and legacy realities, reduce their total cost of ownership by more than 60%, and recover critical IT resources while their users gain superior connectivity. For more information, visit nilesecure.com/journey.
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