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Nick McKeown is a Senior Fellow at Intel, an emeritus professor at Stanford University in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and a visiting professor at Oxford University. He has founded technology companies in Silicon Valley and was recently appointed to the Council of Science and Technology (CST), which advises the Prime Minister and Cabinet on strategic science and technology policy issues.

McKeown received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Leeds in 1986. From 1986 to 1989, he worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs in the network and communications research group in Bristol, England. He relocated to the United States in 1989 and earned a master’s degree in 1992 and a PhD in 1995, both from the University of California at Berkeley. During the spring of 1995, he worked for Cisco Systems, contributing to the architecture of their GSR 12000 router. He joined Stanford University’s faculty in 1995 as an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science. In 1997, McKeown co-founded Abrizio Inc. with Anders Swahn, serving as CTO. Abrizio was acquired by PMC-Sierra in 1999. He became an associate professor in 2002. In 2003, he co-founded Nemo Systems with Sundar Iyer and served as CEO until its acquisition by Cisco Systems in 2005. He became the faculty director of the Clean Slate Program in 2006 and was promoted to full professor at Stanford in 2010. In 2007, Casado, McKeown, and Shenker co-founded Nicira Networks, a company based in Palo Alto, California, focused on network virtualization, acquired by VMWare in July 2012.