Anand Sundaram — CEO
• Accomplished Operating Executive with more than 20+ years of experience in building, transforming, and scaling successful technology businesses, providing collaborative leadership and sustained value creation • Two successful PE exits (SmartBear, Insight to Francisco Partners, Francisco Partners to Vista), 1 IPO & 1 Strategic Acquisition (SQA Inc, Rational), Founder/GM of three startups including RSW Software that was sold to Teradyne Inc. / Oracle • CTO/GM at SmartBear, a Vista, Francisco Partners backed, 20+ product software company with a proven record of YoY growth/profitability • Collaborative Leader with a keen eye towards building/implementing strategy, GTM execution, instituting cross functional rigor and delivering consistent results and growth • Product Leader with proven record of driving innovation, new product delivery, portfolio management, business model transformation and platform modernization • Deep technology experience with a focus on AI, Data Science, Cloud Native, Microservices, Observability and DevSecOps • Servant leader with success in recruiting retaining top talent and scaling teams worldwide • Extensive M&A experience with strategy, deal pipelining, due diligence and IMO setup, and successful post acquisition integrations
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and technology executive with extensive experience in product leadership and M&A.
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Experience: 32 yrs 5 mos
Skills
- M&a Strategy
- Product Strategy
Career Highlights
- 20+ years of experience in technology leadership.
- Successful track record of PE exits and IPOs.
- Expertise in AI, Data Science, and Cloud Native technologies.
Work Experience
Applitools
Chief Executive Officer (7 mos)
CloudZero
Senior Vice President of Product (1 yr 1 mo)
Sundaram Associates
Fractional CPTO (2 yrs 6 mos)
SmartBear
Chief Technology Officer (1 yr 4 mos)
SVP, Functional, Device Cloud, Performance and Observability (1 yr)
VP, Functional, Device Cloud and Performance Testing (1 yr 6 mos)
VP Performance Testing and Monitoring (2 yrs 10 mos)
VP, Monitoring (Synthetic / APM) (1 yr 5 mos)
Bit9/Carbon Black
Senior Director, Mobile Products (2 yrs 3 mos)
CRICO
Head of Product/Engineering and Advisor, Cyber Security Workforce (Harvard Hospitals) (1 yr 5 mos)
Fitnow/Lose It
Senior Software Architect (1 yr 3 mos)
Novell
Director and Head, SUSE Appliance Program (6 mos)
WhoFish Media, Inc.
Co-Founder (5 yrs 3 mos)
Sundaram Associates
Principal (1 yr 4 mos)
FMX Software
Co-Founder (1 yr 1 mo)
RSW Software / Empirix
Co-Founder (5 yrs 3 mos)
SQA Inc. / Rational Software
Director/Senior Manager of Engineering (2 yrs 10 mos)
Bull HN Information Systems
Team Lead and Software Architect (2 yrs 6 mos)
Education
Master of Science - MS at Rochester Institute of Technology
at Thiagarajar College of Engineering
at Coimbatore Institute of Technology
