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Today we have a wonderful guest with us.

I want to have a special welcome for Dominique Orr.

Dominic is the president and CEO of Aruba Networks.

Interestingly enough, he was the chairman of the board of Aruba before they asked him to take on the presidency.

So we'll hear a little bit about that.

He has 20 years of experience in the IT world,

working at HP for many years, Altheon Web Systems, Bay Networks, and Hughes Aircraft. And

if you look back to a few years before that, he got his undergraduate degree in physics

and then a PhD in neuroscience from Caltech. So Dominique, welcome. Well, thank you. Thank you.

This is a great pleasure and honor to speaking in front of such a youthful audience, which I have

not done for a while. Great. Well, I bet they're going to challenge you. I want to let you know.

We're going to talk. I'm going to interview Dominique for about 40 minutes and then open it up to questions.

So feel free to think of your questions along the way because you'll certainly have time

to ask them later.

So I'm really curious.

You had a very interesting and very successful career before becoming the CEO and president

of Aruba.

What made you want to jump from being the chairman to being the president?

And maybe you could tell us a little bit about the company and why that was such an intriguing opportunity.

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