Today we have an episode of Tech Titans. It features summary episodes of our best leadership advice from Modern CTO. Robert Worrall, Former SVP and CIO for Juniper Networks, joins us in this episode to share his greatest leadership advice on how to embrace challenges to grow as a leader, and how to seek out changes and new experiences rather than fearing them.

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About Robert Worral:

Bob Worrall is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer leading Juniper’s Global Information Technology team. In this role, he leads the ongoing enhancement of the company’s IT infrastructure and applications architectures to support the growth objectives of the company. He and his team are also responsible for showcasing Juniper’s use of its technologies to the world.

Prior to joining Juniper in 2015, Worrall was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer at NVIDIA with responsibility for deploying innovative technologies to enhance employee productivity and improve cost efficiencies. He also spent more than two decades at Sun Microsystems, including six years as Chief Information Officer. He also held a variety of roles in Sun’s IT organization, including Vice President of Applications and Vice President of IT operations. Worrall has extensive international business experience, including a two-year assignment in The Netherlands.

Worrall holds an MBA and a bachelor’s degree from California State University, East Bay. He is a recipient of the California Diversity Council’s 2017 Distinguished Chief Information Officer award.

About Juniper Networks:

Our Vision:

We exist to solve the world’s most difficult problems in networking technology. We bring simplicity to networking with products, solutions, and services that connect the world.

A company of innovators, we believe that creating simplicity through engineering is the highest form of innovation. From our first release, the ground-breaking M40 router, to today’s end-to-end advancements in network security, automation, performance, and scale, our drive to move beyond the constraints of complexity has expanded the reach of networks everywhere. We’ve enabled our customers to connect to everything and empower everyone in ways that have literally changed the world.

In the profusion of new technologies such as IoT, big data, and multicloud, complexity is the new hard problem. And complexity is on the wrong side of progress.

With the strength of our resolve, we’ll champion the evolution of the cloud and once again change the world.

Simple is our obsession.

Simple is powerful.

And simple always starts with engineering.