Saadat Malik

Saadat Malik is HPE’s vice president for IoT and intelligent edge services. He leads an organization focused on developing solutions and services for customers looking to transform their businesses leveraging IoT and intelligent edge capabilities. Saadat is an accomplished digitization services executive. He has delivered some of the largest IoT projects at the junction of IT and OT (operations) for a large portion of his 20-year career in the technology industry. Prior to joining HPE, Saadat started several new organizations at Cisco and held various senior services roles, most recently as the global practice lead for Cisco's IoT services organization. A pioneer in the IoT space, he started Cisco's IoT services function and rapidly grew it into a global organization with several hundred clients and employees worldwide. Saadat is the author of the bestselling book “Network Security Principles and Practices” and co-authored the U.S. National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) of 2006. Malik holds an MSc in electrical engineering from Purdue University.