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Rachna Ahlawat		EVENTS
Vice President, Strategic Marketing, Meru Networks
Rachna Ahlawat, vice president of strategic marketing and a key member of Meru Networks’ executive team. A seasoned executive with over 15 years of networking and telecommunications experience, Ms. Ahlawat is responsible for overseeing the company’s communication efforts, development of new strategic markets across the globe, and guiding the product direction for Meru’s industry-leading wireless LAN (WLAN) system. Prior to joining Meru, Ms. Ahlawat was the lead analyst for Wireless LAN at Gartner, Inc. During her tenure with Gartner, Ms. Ahlawat focused on wired and wireless networking technologies, wireless security, management, voice over WLAN and fixed and mobile convergence (FMC). At Gartner, Ms. Ahlawat advised a number of networking vendors on their go-to-market strategies and helped enterprises make decisions on their networking environment. Among other positions held, Ahlawat led market strategy and research activities for various telecommunications vendors at AC Nielsen’s in New Delhi, India. Ms. Ahlawat holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Fergusson College, Pune, India with an emphasis in Computer Science, and a Master of Business degree in Marketing from Institute of Management, Development and Research (IMDR), Pune, India.

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