Mohan Kalkunte is the Vice President of Architecture & Technology in the Core Switch Products group at Broadcom. He leads the architecture for Broadcom’s network switching and NIC products, including Trident, Tomahawk, Jericho, and Thor, across Enterprise, Data Center, and Service Provider markets.

With over 35 years of experience, Mohan holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from The Ohio State University. He began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, later working at AMD, Nortel Networks, and Maverick Networks, which was acquired by Broadcom in 1999. At Broadcom, he rose from Principal Scientist to Vice President and was named Broadcom Fellow in 2009.

Mohan holds over 150 patents and was elected IEEE Fellow in 2013 and to National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for his contributions to Ethernet Switching. He co-authored Gigabit Ethernet: Migrating to High-Bandwidth LANs and pioneered key innovations in Ethernet switch technology.