Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

• Helping scale the AISDR company to build the best Product for B2B Marketing & Pipeline Generation.

Jan 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• As a Chief Product Officer & Chief Marketing Officer, was responsible for driving high-performance team globally across Product Management, Product & UX Design, Product Marketing, Demand Generation, AR, PR, Branding & Global Marketing functions at Qualys. Building scalable systems to deliver Delight, Demand & Dollars!

Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr

• Building & Launching the Next Generation Identity & Security Analytics Portfolio of Products. Responsible for the Platform Strategy to build a converged cybersecurity SaaS platform across cloud security (CIEM, CSPM), endpoint security & Privilege Identity and Access Management areas.
• Championing the Customer Experience (CX) across applications and its See,Try,Buy cycle through Product Led Growth (PLG).

Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 · 5 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Designed & Launched Category defining digital products in skilling, assessment and Edtech platform for Experiential Learning. Customer funded, 3000+ customers, 35000+ users on he B2C freemium platform.
• Leading Customer Acquisitions & Growth functions through Marketing Automation System with hands on experience with 20+ growth hacking tools for lead nurturing campaigns (email, app and viral giveaways) and demand generation. Leading cross functional teams in Product Management, UX & UI Design & Marketing with persona driven messaging through buying lifecycle and digital onboarding.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 · 0 mo

• Help build out the Product Strategy & execution for the most disruptive Executive Education platform that challenges conventional learning models for emerging skills like Product Design, Product Management, Growth Marketing & Data Science.

Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Responsible for the Risk & Compliance portfolio of products at McAfee including Product Strategy, Product Operations, Market Research, Product Requirements, Product Packaging, UX Design.roadmap prioritization and the overall vision for the Business Unit. Led and integrated two acquisitions into the BU

Jan 2006 – Jan 2006 · 0 mo · Houston, Texas, United States

• Working with Executive Management team to build out the next 3 year Product Strategy for ecommerce aggregation, brand acquisitions and 10x growth from its current 100M+ revenue

Jan 2004 – Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

• Innovate and Evangelize. Work with enterprise customers to advise and discuss best practices around compliance and risk management. Innovate and bring next generation solutions to the market by pursuing applied research in the areas of data mining,risk modeling and objective risk characterization.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2005 · 4 yrs

• Launched Industry's first log management platform product. Designed and launched a Risk Analytics Dashboard product with patented model of Security Posture Index (SPI) allowing enterprises to see their end to end risk posture in realtime.
• Roles/Responsibilities/Results:
• o Manage multiple product R&D & UX Design teams in the areas of SIEM, Intrusion Detection, Data Leakage Prevention and Cloud security.
• o Responsible for architecting and scaling flagship products like Security Manager (IDS, correlation signatures, threat models, integration with security devices) and Vulnerability Manager (policy and configuration assessment checks, CIS benchmarks,templates for HIPPA, ISO17799, SANS)
• o Work closely with Product Management and Product Strategy group on creating Product Roadmaps and further validating them with CABs
• o Work with high profile sales deals as a security Subject Matter Expert evangelizing NetIQ security management solutions.
• o Represent NetIQ on standard bodies and industry consortiums like OVAL (oval.mitre.org)

Aug 2000 – Oct 2001 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Architected a collaborative information management portal framework - essentially Intranet in a box. The role based security model for the CRM application allowed SMBs (small to mid scale business) to configure their business rules, allowing unified access to objects created by their employees, vendors and customers.
• Acquired by Pyramid Digital Solutions.

May 1998 – Aug 2000 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Led a high performance R&D and UX Design team responsible for the design and development of MSS (managed security services) platform. Built the cloud based incident response system which monitors & controls network security devices like firewalls, intrusion detection engines, network scanners, antivirus servers and endpoints deployed across the Internet and performed advanced threat correlation in real-time.

Oct 1996 – May 1998 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked with the security infrastructure group to design and implement Security Framework Kit (SFK) API for cloud based security infrastructure for VoIP.
• Implemented a two-factor authentication model using SmartCards. Setup Certificate Authority (CA) for AT&T labs and prototyped browser based delivery for signed X.509 client certificates for browsers Netscape and IE browsers.