SHIFT Speakers
Sanjay Mirchandani
President & CEO
Commvault
Commvault
As a customer-driven CEO, Sanjay Mirchandani is dedicated to delivering solutions for customers’ hardest data protection problems.
Since joining four years ago, Sanjay has dramatically innovated Commvault’s industry-recognized portfolio; strengthened its robust partner ecosystem; transitioned the company from a perpetual to subscription business model; and accelerated its revenue growth. This includes launching Metallic, an award-winning SaaS offering that surpassed 4,000 customers and $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in just three years.
As CEO of software maker Puppet, Sanjay grew the company’s user base to more than 40,000 companies, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100. Sanjay, who earned his bachelor’s from Drew University and MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, previously spent two decades as a senior leader at Microsoft, EMC Corp., and VMware. In addition to serving on Commvault’s Board of Directors, Sanjay is a director at Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI).
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Emerging Threats and the Need for Cyber Governance
Rajiv Kottomtharayil
Chief Product Officer
Commvault
Rajiv Kottomtharayil wasted no time making his mark at Commvault. Starting as a software developer in 1998, Rajiv quickly moved up the ranks – development manager, senior development manager, product development director, and finally, vice president of product development. When he’s not managing Commvault production backup, Rajiv can be found running outdoors or watching the Commvault team play cricket; unless it’s Christmas Day, that’s when he answers customer emails. Rajiv received his Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Monmouth University and Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics from Bombay University.
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Melissa Hathaway
Strategic Advisor and Cybersecurity Expert
Melissa Hathaway is globally recognized as a thought leader in the fields of cybersecurity and digital risk management and has relationships with the highest levels of governments and international institutions. She served in two U.S. presidential administrations, spearheading the Cyberspace Policy Review for President Barack Obama and leading the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) for President George W. Bush. As President of Hathaway Global Strategies, Melissa brings a unique combination of policy and technical expertise, as well as board room experience that allows her to help clients better understand the inter-section of government policy, developing technological and industry trends, and economic drivers that impact acquisition and business development strategy in this field. She has a distinguished affiliations at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Canada’s School of Public Service, and Toronto Metropolitan University. She publishes regularly on cybersecurity matters affecting companies and countries. Most of her articles can be found at the following website: https://www.belfercenter.org/person/melissa-hathaway
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Emerging Threats and the Need for Cyber Governance
Moriah Hara
Chief Information Security Officer
Vigilance Cyber Security
Moriah is an advisor and senior analyst at TAG Cyber LLC. Moriah Hara is a 3x Fortune 500 Award Winning CISO at Wells Fargo Capital Markets, Interpublic Group and Bank of Montreal. For over 23 years, she’s helped Visa, Cigna, Microsoft and dozens of other small and large businesses to secure critical transitions, avoid $1M+ fines, grow revenue and reduce incidents by 80%. She is also a Board Advisor to several startups and an angel Investor. She is a co-author of Security Scorecard’s “The Perfect Scorecard: Getting An 'A' in Cybersecurity From Your Board Of Directors". Named by Cybercrime Magazine as one of top 100 Fascinating Women Fighting Cyber, Moriah has spoken to audiences at Google, FINRA SIFMA, CIO Forum, Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg. She has multiple, industry recognized security certifications such as the CISSP, CISM, CSSLP, PCI QSA and AWS Security and graduated from Harvard’s inaugural executive cybersecurity program. She is passionate about giving back by mentoring, hiring and investing in diverse talent in the cybersecurity industry.
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Sajeev Nair
Sr. Director, Digital Core Services
ServiceNow
As an engineering leader within ServiceNow's Digital Core Services group, Sajeev brings decades of experience delivering diverse technology solutions within large global organizations. He and his team of engineers focus on building solutions at scale in the Cloud & IAM space by leveraging the Now Platform and other complementing technologies. In addition to building technology solutions that deliver consumer-grade experiences at scale, Sajeev is also passionate about building high-performing teams and embracing innovative technologies and approaches.
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Karl Rautenstrauch
Principal Product Manager, Azure Storage
Microsoft
Karl is an industry veteran with 24 years of experience. He has been a systems administrator and architect for Fortune 500 companies, a national evangelist with NetApp, and an Azure Global Blackbelt and Product Manager at Microsoft. In his 10+ years with Microsoft Karl has focused on Azure Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Edge Computing, and High Availability. In his role as a Product Manager with the Azure Storage team, he focuses on strategic partnerships to enable any and every workload to run on Azure. You can find him on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/karlrautenstrauch.
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Tim Zonca
Vice President, Portfolio Commvault
Tim Zonca has spent the past 20 years helping enterprises adopt modern software services to innovate and remain competitive, with an emphasis on cloud and data infrastructure, secure data sharing, and serverless best practices. As VP of Portfolio Marketing at data protection company Commvault, he now focuses on helping teams ensure their sensitive data is protected and recoverable. Prior to Commvault, Tim was CEO of Stackery, VP of Marketing at Vendia, and Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Alliances at Puppet. He lives in Portland, OR.
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