Sep 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Member, Contributing Writer for Forbes.com in the areas of digital marketing and micro-targeting, energy markets and trends, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and analytics

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Board Advisor for the Executive MBA (EMBA) Program.

Aug 2018 – May 2023 · 4 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Redefining network security in the enterprise cloud.

Mar 2017 – May 2023 · 6 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Oct 2016 – Apr 2019 · 2 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and Chief Publisher for NSS Labs to advance their mission and deliver an empirical, metric-driven information services journey for enterprises.
• As CMO, leading the GTM strategy for NSS Labs product and services portfolio, owning multiple roles and responsibilities - Chief Brand Officer, Chief Marketing People Officer and Chief Strategy and Alignment Officer. Responsible for global marketing strategies, leading corporate brand strategy and identity, marketing communications, product marketing, field and solution marketing, partner marketing and other key go-to-market strategies.
• NSS Labs, Inc. is recognized globally as the most trusted source for independent, fact-based cybersecurity guidance. Our mission is to advance transparency and accountability within the cybersecurity industry. Our unmatched foundation in security testing, along with our extensive research and global threat analysis capabilities, provide the basis for NSS Labs’ Cloud Platform for Continuous Security Validation.
• This cloud platform empowers enterprises with objective, empirical data and allows them to gain continuous visibility, gather actionable insights, and rationalize investments in their cyber programs. The cloud platform lets enterprises know where they stand by continuously validating the effectiveness of their security products and assessing the impact of unmitigated risks to the enterprise stack. This gives business leaders the relevant information they need to substantiate their security investments. CISOs, Chief Security Architects, SOC and Threat Analysts, and information security professionals from many of the world's largest and most demanding enterprises rely on trusted information from NSS Labs.

Jan 2015 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Chief Marketing Officer for Bay Dynamics, a leading Comcast Ventures portfolio company, pioneering the Predictive Security Analytics space. Leading the global marketing charter, driving corporate brand strategy and identity, marketing communications, product marketing, field and solution marketing, partner marketing, sales enablement and inside sales.
• Specialties
• Cybersecurity, Attack Surface Threats, Proactive Cyber Counterintelligence, Business Risk Intelligence, User Behavior Analytics, Predictive Security Analytics, Insider Threats, Outsider Threats, Continuous Threat Detection, High Privilege Access Threats

Mar 2013 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As Vice President, Product Marketing and Management; leading a global marketing charter for driving Company Level Messaging and Positioning; Products and Solutions Go-To-Market activities (Launch, NPI, Sales and Partner Enablement), Technical Marketing and Competitive Marketing for FireEye (and M&A organizations). As founding member for product marketing efforts, leading the charge of growing existing cyber security products portfolio to myriad of new products and services offerings with an eye for building out a world class Product Marketing team.
• Fully aligned to growing top line revenue and driving solid market traction for FireEye "Security Reimagined" Vision through state of the art FireEye Threat Prevention Platform, Dynamic Threat Intelligence and Highly Skilled Researchers as the company transitioned from late-stage start-up to one of the best performing IPOs (NASDAQ: FEYE) of 2013

Nov 2011 – Mar 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Leading and Driving Barracuda’s Product Marketing Portfolio (Globally) for Small Medium Business, Mid Market, Industry Verticals and Enterprise Segments.
• Full P&L Focus and Leading Global Sales, Channel Partners and Customer Engagements with in-depth understanding of emerging market trends and new business models synergies in Security, Mobility, Cloud, Virtualization, Social Networks and Business Critical Applications.
• Key Focus Areas
• Product Strategy, Messaging & Positioning
• Solutions Positioning
• Marketing Programs and Campaigns
• Sales Tools & Collateral Creation
• Competitive Analysis
• Events & Tradeshows
• Vertical Marketing
• Channel and Sales Enablement
• Analyst Relations
• Specialties
• Next Generation Firewall (NG Firewall), Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Application Delivery Controller / Load Balancer, Mobile Security / BYOD, Web and Email Security, Backup and Archiving Solutions, Advance Malware Protection (APTs), Cloud Based Security Services, Enterprise Business Continuity (EBC) Solution Offerings.

Nov 2008 – Nov 2011 · 3 yrs

• P& L responsibility for Borderless Network (BN) Solutions, Network Services and Management Portfolio (Device, Network, Policy, Cloud).
• Seasoned Executive leading solutions architecture, solutions marketing and engineering functions; driving NextGen solutions and services strategy and Global Solutions Sales (Direct, Channels) responsibilities for various verticals / segments.
• Leading and driving Solution Level Competitive Strategy and Analysis against leading industry competitors in the field of Enterprise WAN, Teleworker, Wired / Wireless, Application Velocity (WANOpt, ANPM, Cloud), Security, Mobility and SP Architecture.
• Specialties
• Enterprise WAN Architecture, Security Solutions, IP VPNs, Zero Touch Deployment, Application Velocity (WAN Optimization, ANPM, Virtualization, Cloud), Cisco Virtual Office (Teleworker and Branch), Secure Mobility, Wired / Wireless Access, SP Managed Services
• End to End Application Level Services i.e. Video/Medianet, Voice (UC), Wireless, Mobility, Hosted / Virtualized Cloud Infrastructure, IPv6 and XaaS

May 1997 – Nov 2008 · 11 yrs 6 mos

• End to End Security Solutions and 3rd Party Vendor Integration and Alliances

Jun 1994 – Jul 1996 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• P&L responsibility for leading and driving networking related sales for India West Region (Mumbai)