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Anand Ramanathan

CEO

Saratoga, California, United States30 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • 20+ years in product leadership roles
  • Expertise in cybersecurity and cloud computing
  • Proven track record of driving growth and innovation
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing executive with extensive product leadership experience.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud SecurityCybersecurityGeneral Management

Other Skills

Product ManagementProduct MarketingSaaSUser Experience

About

20+ years of experience in GM and product line/technical leadership roles with growth oriented emerging companies. Offer outstanding combination of team leadership, new product innovation and strong execution. Product and Technology expertise in cybersecurity, cloud computing, data protection, collaboration and wireless sectors. Risk taker with distinguished ability to bridge technical and business considerations. Decisive, action-oriented, and results-focused executive who thrives in high-performance environments. Ability to form strong relationships with executives and front line team members in engineering and sales functions. Specialties: Product leadership (Ability to see trends early, User experience fanatic, Craft differentiated vision, Relentless in optimizing execution) Customer Delight (Building C-level relationships, Going above and beyond to excite customers, Morphing challenging situations into WOW moments) Team leadership (Hiring A players, Fostering a culture of excellence, Cultivating future leaders through mentoring relationships) Early adopter (LinkedIn #62297, Facebook - 2005, Twitter - 2007, Quora - 2010: Yes I am dating myself. Could add ChatGPT - Dec 2022, Pi - May 2023, Claude - July 2023 but you get the message)

Experience

Deepwatch

Chief Product Officer

Jan 2025Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Airmdr, inc.

Chief Product Officer

Jan 2024Jan 2025 · 1 yr

  • Excited to shape the venture at the intersection of AI and Security

Dasera (acquired by netksope)

Advisory Board

Jan 2021Jan 2024 · 3 yrs

Cloud SecurityCybersecurity

Skyhigh security

Chief Product Officer

Jan 2021Jan 2023 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Appointed by board as founding CPO with responsibility for all aspects of product/technical vision and execution. Lead a group of 400 talented team members accountable for Engineering, Architecture, Cloud Operations and Product Management.
  • Skyhigh Security was spun out of McAfee Enterprise by STG as a separate cloud-native security company focused on the SSE market.
General ManagementCloud SecurityCybersecurity

Mcafee

2 roles

SVP Products and Marketing, Enterprise

Promoted

Jan 2019Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Enlisted by executive leadership to lead the entire Enterprise security Portfolio (Endpoint, EDR, XDR, CASB, Secure Web Gateway, CNAPP, DLP, Network security, SIEM) with annual revenues of ~$1.3B. Responsibilities (team of 90) included Product Management, Product Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, and Analyst Relations. Acquired by Private equity firm: Symphony Technology Group (STG)
  • Created portfolio strategy to focus on select high growth market opportunities
  • Generated double digit growth in Endpoint and Cloud security product lines
  • Created unified vision for differentiation and achieved Gartner MQ leadership status in Endpoint and SASE
  • Invested and grew government cloud business via comprehensive FedRAMP certifications
General ManagementCloud SecurityProduct MarketingCybersecurity

VP of Products, Skyhigh Networks (acquired by McAfee)

Jan 2017Jan 2019 · 2 yrs

  • Part of the executive team (reported to CEO) that prioritized intensity, customer delight, and empathy. Resulted in a successful acquisition by McAfee. Led a team of world class Product Management, User Experience, Technical Marketing and Documentation professionals. Key accomplishments include
  • Expanded product vision to broaden scope from SaaS security to comprehensive cloud security.
  • Launched innovations that resulted in Gartner MQ leadership for 4 years
  • Executive sponsor for leading enterprises and government agencies
General ManagementCloud SecurityCybersecurity

Armorblox (now part of cisco)

Advisory Board

Jan 2017Jan 2023 · 6 yrs

  • Assisted the founders with early product market fit and GTM approaches
Cloud SecurityCybersecurity

Proofpoint

VP, Product Management

Jan 2011Jan 2017 · 6 yrs · Sunnyvale, CA

  • Led product management for core Advanced email security suite ($500 Million+ business).
  • Played a significant part in
  • . Pivoting from an anti-spam company to a Top 5 Cyber-security company
  • . Growing financial metrics for the business by >6X
  • . Launching 5+ market transforming products in advanced threats and email security
  • . Acquiring and cultivating loyalty from an all-star list of Fortune 500 customers
  • . Building a high performing PM team from the ground up
General ManagementCloud SecurityCybersecurity

Cisco, collaboration software group (webex)

Director, Product Management

Jan 2005Jan 2011 · 6 yrs

  • Joined Cisco via $3.2 Billion acquisition of WebEx. Managed a product management team of 15 product managers for multiple collaboration product lines with combined revenue of >$150 million.

Svase - silicon valley association of startup entrepreneurs

Chief Operating Officer and Board of Directors

Jan 2002Jan 2005 · 3 yrs

  • SVASE is a non-for-profit organization focused on empowering entrepreneurs to succeed. Joined the organization hoping to help out for a few months. Stayed on for 2+ years since I enjoyed what I was doing and was having significant impact on many startups. Provided leadership for all programs.

Tavanza - acquired by celeritek inc

Senior Director, Products

Jan 2001Jan 2002 · 1 yr

  • Led product team for early stage wireless startup and focused roadmap on bluetooth opportunities. Also worked with VC’s on business development.

Rightworks corp - acquired by i2 technologies

Senior Director, Business Development

Jan 2000Jan 2001 · 1 yr

  • My dot com experience. Good company in a great market. However market turned from great to bad quickly.

Mckinsey & company

Engagement Manager

Jan 1996Jan 2000 · 4 yrs

  • Interned during summer. Joined full time after B-school. Intellectually stimulating, fast paced, lasting impact, long hours, frequent flyer miles - what a great training ground.
  • Directed McKinsey and multidisciplinary client teams (from 5 to 50 people) to develop and implement growth strategy and performance improvement engagements.

Education

The Wharton School

MBA — Entrepreneurship

Villanova University

MS — Engineering

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