Amit Chopra has joined Versa Networks as Country Director, India & SAARC. He is based in Gurugram, Haryana, and took up the role in June 2026.
He joins from Cato Networks, where he was Country Manager from November 2025 to April 2026, leading the company’s business and growth in India and the SAARC region.
Before Cato Networks, Chopra was Regional Director at MongoDB from March 2024 to November 2025. There he led the Large Strategic Accounts business for the North and East region and the Enterprise ISV business across India. Before MongoDB, he spent nine months at CrowdStrike, from May 2023 to January 2024, as Regional Sales Director. From April 2020 to May 2023 he was Regional Director at Palo Alto Networks in New Delhi.
His longest stint was at Juniper Networks, where he spent 9 years and 8 months in three roles. As Regional Sales Manager for the North and East region, from January 2016 to March 2020, he led Juniper’s business across the region, including the SAARC countries Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. He was responsible for revenue growth across the service provider, government and enterprise segments. Revenue grew by more than 50% in his last three years in the role, and he was part of Juniper’s “High Performance” Club for three consecutive years.
Before that, from June 2014 to December 2015, he was Director, Partner Sales. He led Juniper’s Tier I Partners (Manage Elite) and service provider sell-through partners across India and SAARC, with responsibility for revenue in excess of 30.0 Mn from these partners across the service provider, government and enterprise segments. His work included half-yearly and annual strategic planning with partners, exploring new verticals, segments and solutions for incremental revenue, and managing forecasts, pipeline and quarterly and annual quotas.
He joined Juniper in August 2010 as Head of Marketing for India and SAARC, a role he held until May 2014. As Regional Marketing Leader, he created and ran marketing programmes for end customers and partners, along with corporate communication plans supporting Juniper’s regional business strategy.
Earlier in his career, Chopra was Senior Marketing Manager, Channels & Alliances at EMC Corporation in Gurugram, from 2007 to August 2010. He managed key partners including Wipro, HCL, TCS, TEL, Dell and Tier II resellers, as well as technology alliances with Cisco, VMware and Brocade, and developed integrated channel marketing plans for India and SAARC.
From July 2004 to August 2007 he was Business Manager, Networking at Avaya GlobalConnect Ltd. He was responsible for the revenue of the company’s networking business in the country. His responsibilities covered channels management, product management, marketing and vendor management, and he led alliance relationships with Avaya’s global partners such as Extreme and Juniper.
He began his career at Tata Teleservices as Senior Engineer, BSG, from November 2001 to June 2004.
At Versa Networks, Chopra now leads the company’s business in India and the SAARC region.
