Ben Chambers leads Philo’s engineering team and technology strategy. With a background in distributed systems and cloud computing, Ben focuses on delivering innovative and reliable products that delight Philo’s customers. Before joining Philo, Ben led various engineering and product teams at Meraki, having joined Meraki as one of its early engineers. Following Meraki’s acquisition by Cisco, Ben led product management for Meraki’s Global Service Provider business. Before Meraki, Ben was Staff Engineer at VMware. Ben holds Bachelors and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from MIT; his Master’s thesis was the precursor to Meraki’s first product.