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Saryu Nayyar
Chief Executive Officer
Saryu Nayyar is an internationally recognized cybersecurity expert, author, speaker and member of the Forbes Technology Council. She has more than 15 years of experience in the information security, identity and access management, IT risk and compliance, and security risk management sectors. She was named EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women in 2017. She has held leadership roles in security products and services strategy at Oracle, Simeio, Sun Microsystems, Vaau (acquired by Sun) and Disney. Saryu also spent several years in senior positions at the technology security and risk management practice of Ernst & Young. She is passionate about building disruptive technologies and has several patents pending for behavior analytics, anomaly detection and dynamic risk scoring inventions.
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Nilesh Dherange
Chief Technology Officer
Nilesh Dherange is responsible for development and execution of Gurucul’s technology vision. Nilesh brings a wealth of experience in inventing, designing, and building software from inception to release. Nilesh has been a technologist and leader at three startups and at one of the largest software development companies in the world. Prior to founding Gurucul, Nilesh was an integral member of a company that built a Roles and Compliance product acquired by Sun Microsystems. Nilesh was also a co-founder and VP of Engineering for BON Marketing Group where he conceptualized and created BON Ticker — an innovative patented bid management system which used predictive analytics to determine advertising bids for PPC marketing campaigns on search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN etc. Nilesh holds a B.A in Social Science, B.E in Computer Engineering from University of Mumbai and M.S in Computer Science from University of Southern California.
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Craig Cooper
Chief Operating Officer
Craig Cooper has served in several information security and risk management roles including CISO for a Fortune 500 Financial Services organization. While in this role, Craig defined and implemented an ISO standards-based Information Security program. Craig has led, developed, and delivered multiple Identity and Access Management Strategies and Roadmaps for several organizations. Craig has written for several trade magazines and has been a speaker with Burton Catalyst, Gartner, and ISSA.
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Amol Bhagwat
VP, Solutions and Field Engineering
Amol is a distinguished security professional with a strong consulting, implementation and leadership experience. As a part of the executive leadership team, he drives product strategy, marketing campaigns, solutions development, APAC technical sales and global customer success program. Amol brings over 15 years of experience in delivering security and risk management solutions for Fortune 500 customers across the globe. Prior to Gurucul, he played an important role in building security practice for one of the major global system integrator. He achieved exponential business growth as a practice lead with focus on innovative solutions and delivery excellence. Amol graduated from University of Mumbai with B.E. in Electronics.
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Jane Grafton
VP 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.
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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.
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Akshay Oza
VP Engineering
Akshay Oza has over 17 years of experience with product development at product companies. He manages software development teams spread across multiple locations and is responsible for Product Architecture, Solution Architecture, and Relationship Management. Akshay has experience in working with startups, small and large companies, setting the teams and processes up for growth. He is responsible for 5+ year’s engagements for small to medium size teams (10 to 35+), managing team performances and career growth. Akshay works with all stakeholders across the business: CEO, CTO, Product Owners, Project Managers, Sales, Marketing, Usability Teams, Customer Success, Customer Support and Engineering Teams for different phases of Product Life Cycle. He runs India Development Center from Operations to Engineering Teams.
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Vikram Mathu
VP Customer Success
Vikram Mathu is a technology leader with 20+ years of experience in Cyber security, Customer Success, Product delivery and management, Infrastructure management, Identity & Access Management. He is a strategic thinker and planner, skilled in the design, implementation and management of highly effective product development, security architectures. Vikram possess outstanding leadership and team building strengths that generate optimum productivity and performance excellence from organizational staff. He is committed to achieving corporate objectives with a history of successful delivery of project and services. Specialties: Customer Success, Cyber Security, Identity & Access Management, Infrastructure Management.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Brian Radley
Chief Financial Officer
As CFO, Brian brings over 20 years of financial management experience and has helped manage several rapidly growing technology companies from fundraising through acquisition. He has held various financial and operational roles at CloudLock (acquired by Cisco), Axeda (acquired by PTC), and Network Intelligence (acquired by EMC). Brian holds an MBA from Babson College and a BS in Accountancy from Bentley University.
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Sanjay Raja
VP Product Marketing and Solutions
Sanjay brings over 20 years of experience in building, marketing and selling cyber security and networking solutions to enterprises, medium-to-small business, and managed service providers. Previously, Sanjay was VP of Marketing at Prevailion, a cyber intelligence startup. Sanjay has also several successful leadership roles in Marketing, Product Strategy, Alliances and Engineering at Digital Defense (acquired by Help Systems), Lumeta (acquired by Firemon), RSA (Netwitness), Cisco Systems, HP Enterprise Security, Crossbeam Systems, Arbor Networks, Top Layer Networks, Caw Networks (acquired by Spirent Communications), Nexsi Systems, 3Com, and Cabletron Systems. Sanjay holds a B.S.EE and an MBA from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Sanjay is also a CISSP as well as Pragmatic Marketing certified.
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Tom King
VP Sales
Tom King leads Gurucul’s sales and brings 20+ years in and around Cybersecurity, including companies like Imperva, McAfee, Crossbeam, Sourcefire, Counterpane and others, as part of a career that pans 30+ years in Sales, including Financial Services and Telecommunications. Tom is a high energy, motivational leader, with success based on a consultative and value/solution-oriented process to drive growth. He has led teams to success with Global 2000 entities, Channel partners, and emerging markets. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Russian History & Economics from Stanford and Graduate work in International Business from London School of Economics and MIT Sloan School of Management.
Saryu Nayyar
Chief Executive Officer
Saryu Nayyar is an internationally recognized cybersecurity expert, author, speaker and member of the Forbes Technology Council.
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Nilesh Dherange
Chief Technology Officer
Nilesh Dherange is responsible for development and execution of Gurucul’s technology vision.
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Craig Cooper
Chief Operating Officer
Craig Cooper has served in several information security and risk management roles including CISO for a Fortune 500 Financial Services organization.
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Brian Radley
Chief Financial Officer
As CFO, Brian brings over 20 years of financial management experience and has helped manage several rapidly growing technology companies from fundraising through acquisition.
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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.
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Amol Bhagwat
VP, Solutions and Field Engineering
Amol is a distinguished security professional with a strong consulting, implementation and leadership experience.
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Tom King
VP Sales
Tom King leads Gurucul’s sales and brings 20+ years in and around Cybersecurity, including companies like Imperva, McAfee, Crossbeam, Sourcefire, Counterpane and others, as part of a career that pans 30+ years in Sales, including Financial Services and Telecommunications.
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Sanjay Raja
VP Product Marketing and Solutions
Sanjay brings over 20 years of experience in building, marketing and selling cyber security and networking solutions to enterprises, medium-to-small business, and managed service providers.
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Jane Grafton
VP Marketing
Jane Grafton has more than 30 years of experience in domestic and international marketing, sales and business development.
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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.
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Akshay Oza
VP Engineering
Akshay Oza has over 17 years of experience with product development at product companies. He manages software development teams spread across multiple locations and is responsible for Product Architecture, Solution Architecture, and Relationship Management.
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Vikram Mathu
VP Customer Success
Vikram Mathu is a technology leader with 20+ years of experience in Cyber security, Customer Success, Product delivery and management, Infrastructure management, Identity & Access Management.
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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.
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