Leadership

Jane Grafton

Vice President Of Marketing

Jane Grafton has more than 30 years of experience in domestic and international marketing, sales and business development. She came to Gurucul from Lieberman Software where she spent 9 years managing global marketing operations inclusive of marketing automation, website, events, collateral, digital marketing, email campaigns, product marketing, PR and corporate branding. Prior to that she spent 12 years at Sun Microsystems in field marketing management, supporting commercial accounts and federal systems integrators throughout the U.S. Prior to Sun, Mrs. Grafton sold and developed new markets for Locus Computing Corporation’s UNIX software services focusing on OEMs. At Computer Associates Limited in the UK, she established a new corporate function, Third Party Marketing, by developing relationships with hardware manufacturers, distributors and management consultants. Mrs. Grafton graduated from UC San Diego, CA in Applied Mathematics.

Naveen Vijay

VP Threat Research

As VP Threat Research and Principal Architect, Naveen Utilizes his 10+ years of industry experience in Analytics and Information Security Products to drive technical enablement of Gurucul’s Award Winning Unified Security and Risk Analytics platform by strategizing technical pre-sales, deployment, and training programs. Naveen also plays an active role in Gurucul’s initiative for cybersecurity research and contributes to product innovation and development efforts.

Before joining Gurucul Naveen held various technology and lead positions at Sun, Oracle and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). Naveen holds B.E in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Anna University, India and M.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech.

Akshay Oza

VP Engineering

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Vikram Mathu

VP Customer Success

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Sandeep Puri

GM APAC

Sandeep Puri is currently serving as Gurucul’s General Manager in the APAC region responsible for growing Gurucul’s sales, customer acquisition and channel programs in the Region. He has more than 22 years of experience in Business Development, Channels & Sales Management. Sandeep has been associated with Gurucul for past 3 years and has successfully built a high growth revenue and customer success model in the region. His background includes sales leadership roles in various Global organizations.

Brian McElroy

VP Business and Corporate Development

Brian leads Gurucul’s worldwide business and corporate development initiatives focused on accelerating growth, including strategic partnerships, OEM, and M&A. Prior to joining Gurucul, Brian led business and corporate development at MarkMonitor, a global leader in online brand protection and anti-fraud solutions. Prior to MarkMonitor, Brian was the VP of Business and Corporate Development at Nominum, helping fuel its growth from and early stage venture backed company through its successful acquisition by Akamai Technologies. Earlier in his career, Brian led the business development teams at several industry-leading security companies, including CheckPoint Software Technologies and Trend Micro. Brian earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley.

Peter Draper

Director EMEA

Peter Draper has almost 30 years of experience working for vendors on Networking, Performance Management, Cyber Security, and Analytics and has worked as an external consultant across the globe. Peter’s focus for the last 7 years has been on bringing Analytics to bear on multiple business challenges but predominantly Cyber Risk and remediation.