WSU alum to talk about Silicon Valley success

A Wichita State alumnus who is the founder of a Silicon Valley start-up will talk about his career and entrepreneurism in a lecture next week.

Khalid Raza has had a career in computer networking at Cisco and Hewlett-Packard before helping start Viptela, a San Jose, Calif.-based firm that provides solutions to computer networking challenges. He will deliver a lecture, “Wichita State University to Silicon Valley Success: Embracing Risk for Entrepreneurial Triumph.”

Raza received a master’s degree in industrial engineering from WSU in 1992.

The lecture will be 11 a.m. Tuesday in the Rhatigan Student Center, Beggs Ballroom. It is free and open to the public.

This story was originally published September 3, 2015 at 10:34 AM with the headline "WSU alum to talk about Silicon Valley success."