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Remote, Us

Leading CrowdStrike's corporate strategy and growth in collaboration with one of the most talented and inspiring teams in cybersecurity.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Led Intel’s Security Strategy and Marketing delivering hardware-embedded cybersecurity technologies to defend against modern threats. Launched innovative hardware-enhanced security solutions across the computing landscape, from the smallest IoT devices to the largest clouds. Developed Intel Security Platform architecture to abstract complexities while easing adoption by developers. Collaborating with the world’s largest organizations -- including top CSPs, OSVs, OEMs, ISVs, government agencies, and enterprises -- to bring to market unmatched hardware-assisted protection for public clouds to on-premise installations against resourceful adversaries. Driving ecosystem strategy and execution to recruit, enable, and go-to-market with ecosystem partners. Created a new hardware-assisted security category, drove differentiated narratives through compelling positioning and storytelling, and executed high-ROI campaigns globally with partners for multi-billion-dollar business units. Partnered with Intel Capital for promising start-up investments.

McAfee operated as an independent Intel subsidiary post acquisition. Led Corporate Strategy in close collaboration with McAfee and Intel executive teams. Spearheaded planning and execution of strategy and roadmap for McAfee portfolio. Advised executive leadership on the complex strategic issues. Embraced systemic approach to isolate the problem, frame key questions, develop hypothesis, perform rigorous fact gathering and analysis, define strategic options, and align stakeholders. Set course for McAfee’s inorganic growth through strategic partnerships and M&A. Partnered with BU General Managers in developing and executing product and technology strategies. Laid foundation for long-term hardware security synergies with Intel while ensuring near-term success of McAfee security solutions.

San Jose, California, Us

Established and led Corporate Strategy function at McAfee during crucial growth years leading up to acquisition by Intel. Instilled long-term strategic planning discipline to complement company’s execution culture. Transformed the company from a sleepy anti-virus company to an organization with industry’s largest security product portfolio spanning ~70% of the market. Drove growth planning for the company via build, buy, and partner strategies. Entered several new high-growth markets while consistently achieving market-share gain in existing markets. Delivered double-digit growth in top-line, bottom-line and FCF while maintaining >25% operating margin during the tenure. Architected McAfee's acquisition by Intel for $7.68 Billion, the largest ever in the information security industry and second largest in Intel's 47-year history. Created material shareholder value with 75% premium to Enterprise Value. Led McAfee acquisition life-cycle including initial exploration, due diligence, negotiation, announcement, regulatory approvals, and closing aspects in collaboration with CEO.

San Jose, California, Us

Led worldwide marketing for McAfee’s multi-billion $ portfolio. Built and managed a global marketing organization responsible for marketing strategy, go-to-market planning and execution, outbound product marketing, solution marketing, demand generation, competitive intelligence, marketing communications, analyst relations, and product reviews. Orchestrated company’s entry in several high-growth markets across Data Protection, Endpoint Security, Network Security, Content Security, Risk and Compliance, and Security Management. Secured leadership position in the most number of Gartner Magic Quadrants in the company’s history.

Built and led product & marketing team which took the company from stealth-mode to a category-leading vendor in Network Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) market in less than a year. Established a new market category and secured technology and thought leadership while surpassing large established vendors such as Cisco, IBM, and Symantec. Company’s strategic category leadership drove highly successful acquisition by McAfee.

Launched industry’s first Operations Service Provider focused on delivering outsourced Operations Support Systems (OSS), engineering, product management, network operations and customer care functions for telecom service providers.

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Led global Product Management and Marketing efforts for UUNET’s Managed IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) services portfolio in 18 countries. Orchestrated company's market-entry in VPN service space and secured #1 market-share in less than two years.

Introduced category-creating Managed IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) service. Evangelized VPN solutions and drove strategy for market acceptance of VPN as an alternate WAN option compared to frame relay service.

Delivered pioneering work for industry’s first commercial ISP in the areas of traffic engineering, large-scale IP routing design, backbone engineering, real-time 7x24 network monitoring, and network performance management.

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electronics Engineering