Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Aug 2020 – Apr 2025 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Oct 2018 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 9 mos

• I am responsible for driving global transformation and innovation across all facets of Zscaler’s business, customers, strategy, products, and operations, with a strong focus on customer value creation and advocacy. My mandate includes leadership of the following key functions:
• The Office of the CISO
• Transformation Strategy and Evangelism
• Business Value Consulting
• CIO Advisory & Programs
• Customer Experience & Innovation

Oct 2018 – Mar 2023 · 4 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Jun 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• (Split Software was acquired by Harness.)
• Head of global marketing @ Split, the leading platform for feature experimentation, empowering businesses of all sizes to make smarter product decisions. With Split data-driven engineering and product teams can now securely release new features, target them to customers, and measure the impact of features on their customer experience metrics. Split is venture-backed by Accel Partners and Lightspeed Ventures.

Jan 2015 – Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Head of global marketing for Databricks, a start-up that is venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz and NEA. The company was founded by the team that created the popular open source data processing engine, Apache Spark. Databricks' vision is to empower enterprises to identify insights and build applications with advanced analytics, powered by Spark.

Nov 2013 – Dec 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · mountain view, ca

• (Maginatics, Inc. was acquired by EMC Corporation.)
• Worldwide head of marketing at Maginatics, a start up focused on building distributed enterprise storage solutions for the cloud.
• Responsibilities included:
• Member of the executive leadership team and played a key role in the acquisition of the company by EMC.
• Built and led the team responsible for delivering every element of Maginatics’ marketing, spanning product marketing, technical marketing, channel marketing, demand generation and outward-bound communications, including messaging, branding, product launches, marketing automation, sales and partner enablement.
• Company spokesperson for media/analyst relations.
• Developed Maginatics' main value messaging, identified target use cases and buyer segmentation, and evangelizing main value messages and unique selling proposition.
• Instrumental is deploying marketing automation (Marketo), CRM integration with Salesforce.com and grassroots-level lead nurture programs.
• Creation and delivery of the core tools that are used for brand awareness, lead gen, thought leadership, sales engagements, and channel engagements.
• Instrumental in building a significant prospect and customer database for Maginatics from ground up.

Feb 2012 – Oct 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Head of marketing for the Stingray (SteelApp) software Application Delivery Controller (ADC) product line for accelerating applications in data centers and cloud environments. Stingray was Riverbed’s first cloud product.
• Responsibilities included:
• Managing the team responsible for delivering every element of marketing & communications for Stingray including, product marketing, demand generation, marketing ops, sales enablement, communications and channel marketing. Managed ~$3M marketing opex budget.
• Developed & refined Stingray’s main value messages, identified target markets and buyer segmentation, and articulated both c-level and TDM messaging.
• Lead role in multiple product launches. Influenced product development through customer feedback, alliances, analyst strategy, and competitive dynamics.
• Created and delivered the core tools that were used for awareness creation, lead gen and thought leadership, across direct marketing, field marketing, sales engagements, and channel marketing.
• Created and delivered both inside & outside sales tools and training including sales plays & battle-cards.
• Ongoing engagement with analysts and press as BU spokesperson through media interviews and analyst briefings and syndicated asset creation, Instrumental in positioning Riverbed as a "Visionary" in Gartner 2012 and 2013 Magic Quadrants for ADC.
• Led demand gen campaign development and execution aimed at building a marketing influenced pipeline.
• Content expert and BU lead in the engagement and alignment with strategic technology alliance partners.

Dec 2009 – Dec 2011 · 2 yrs · San Jose, CA

• As part of Cisco's Corporate Development Technology Group, I led the team responsible for technical and open source diligence for all acquisitions and investments. In addition, my team was also responsible for building a technology-driven target pipeline across multiple domains, performing early company and technology evaluations (pre-diligence), and issuing technology recommendations to internal stakeholders and executive leadership at Cisco about potential investments and acquisitions targets.

Aug 2000 – Dec 2009 · 9 yrs 4 mos · San Jose, CA

• Led the product management team for Cisco's Cable Access business with $500M+ Y/Y P&L responsibility.
• Directed product roadmap definition and execution with engineering, created go-to-market plans, managed product life cycle and operations, and triaged high-visibility customer impacting product issues, including product transitions, end-of-life, cross-business unit and platform last-time-buy requirements.
• Developed pricing models and engaged in margin and deal analysis with executive management, finance and sales management.
• Managed the overall BU fiscal forecast, based on pipeline and deal flow visibility.

Jan 1996 – Aug 2000 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Tokyo, Japan & Sunnyvale, CA

Nov 1994 – Jan 1996 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Melbourne Area