Meet Our Leaders

Suresh (he/him) has served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Sysdig, Inc. since February 2018. Prior to joining Sysdig, Suresh was the president and CEO of Nimble Storage, Inc. His tenure extended from March 2011 until its acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in May 2017. During his time at the company, he led Nimble from a startup, through a successful IPO, and on to be a leading provider of next-generation flash storage systems and a pioneer in leveraging predictive analytics for infrastructure management, with more than $500 million in annualized revenues and over 10,000 customers.

Prior to Nimble Storage, he was the CEO of Omneon (acquired by Harmonic Inc.), and previously served as a member of the executive team at NetApp, overseeing all product operations. During a decade-long career at NetApp, Suresh led the company’s product strategy and product development and was a key architect of the steady expansion of NetApp’s product portfolio into new markets. Before joining NetApp, Suresh served at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Chicago as a senior engagement manager.

He holds a B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering, with honors, from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in Pilani, India and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Calcutta, India.

Loris (he/him) is the Chief Technology Officer and founder of Sysdig. He is also the creator of the popular open source troubleshooting tool, sysdig, and the open source container security tool Falco. Prior to founding Sysdig, Loris co-created Wireshark, the open source network analyzer, which today has 20+ million users. Loris holds a PhD in computer engineering from Politecnico di Torino and lives in Davis, California.

Karen Walker assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer of Sysdig in 2021 to steer growth and financial strategy. With over 20 years of expertise spanning corporate finance, accounting, compliance, and investor relations, Karen’s leadership extends from pre-IPO to public companies. Her executive roles at PagerDuty, Uber Technologies, Pandora Media, CBS Interactive, and Virgin America underscore her proficiency. Karen excels at scaling finance teams in high-growth and global settings, notably at Uber Technologies. She spearheaded early IPO readiness for Uber and Virgin America, while also driving M&A activities, including Pandora Media’s sale to Sirius XM. Karen’s strategic acumen includes building and leading investor relations at PagerDuty.

Paul (he/him) is Chief Human Resource Officer at Sysdig. Paul is a global human resource executive with more than 20 years of experience. At Sysdig, Paul leads the team that creates and drives strategies around people engagement and experience, focused on recruiting top talent, cultivating company culture and helping the Sysdig team to realize its potential.

Prior to Sysdig, Paul was the Chief People Officer at Cohesity and Databricks and held a similar role at Nimble Storage. Paul has a passion for building great company cultures and has helped two former companies through successful IPOs. Hailing from the UK, Paul currently lives in Sacramento with his wife and 2 schnauzers.

Bryce (he/him) is the Chief Marketing Officer at Sysdig, where he leads the marketing efforts to maximize growth. He brings nearly three decades of company and product positioning, brand awareness, and category development experience to Sysdig. Most recently, he served as the CMO of ExtraHop where he helped pivot the company into cybersecurity and establish it as a category leader. Prior to ExtraHop, he held VP of Marketing positions at Quantum, a data storage company, and Rocana, a big data analytics startup. He spent the early part of his career at ADIC, helping to grow the data storage company from a $5M startup to a $450M public company. 

Bryce holds an M.B.A. from the University of Washington, an M.S. in Computer Science from Eastern Washington University, and a B.A. in Math & Computer Science from Eastern Washington University.

Shanta (she/her) is responsible for worldwide demand generation at Sysdig. She has more than 20 years of experience across all marketing functions including integrated marketing, operations, global/field demand, customer success, and product marketing. Shanta is recognized as a GTM & demand generation strategist with a proven record to build scalable, high performing global programs focused on net new logo acquisition and customer expansion.

Before joining Sysdig, Shanta held senior marketing roles at enterprise security and software companies including Palo Alto Networks, Nimble Storage (acquired by HPE), and Blue Coat Systems (acquired by Symantec).

Shanta holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in marketing from California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo.

Phil (he/him) is responsible for all corporate development, strategic alliances and global systems integrator (GSI) initiatives at Sysdig where he leads the team focused on building strategic partnerships across the security, cloud, and Kubernetes spaces. Phil has a passion for developing strategic alliances and ecosystems that deliver true value for both the partner and joint customers, and he has proven this in both startup and large public technology companies.

Prior to joining Sysdig, Phil led the corporate development & strategic alliances strategies for Hedvig, a pioneer in the software-defined and container storage markets, as well as, Kaminario, a leading early-stage startup in the all-flash storage market. Phil previously held executive leadership positions at Dell, as well as, Netapp, where he led the global strategic alliances strategy and team.

Phil holds a B.S. in Commerce & Business Administration from the University of Alabama Culverhouse School of Business and lives in the San Francisco area.

Jim is the driving force behind worldwide sales at Sysdig, having joined the company in June 2022. With over two decades of leadership experience, Jim has a proven track record of propelling brand recognition, revenue, and profitability in the B2B enterprise technology sector. Over the last decade, he has excelled at the intersection of cloud, security, and compliance, building and motivating high-performance teams.

Before joining Sysdig, Jim held several senior leadership positions where he demonstrated his strategic acumen and ability to scale sales organizations. Most recently, he was VP of Americas Sales at Sumo Logic, where he contributed to its acquisition by Francisco Partners. Prior to this, he was VP of Sales at Pure Storage, where he drove double-digit revenue growth. He was also SVP of Sales at Metalogix, where he played a key role in its acquisition by Quest, VP of Sales at HyTrust, where he led to its acquisition by Entrust. He has also held pivotal roles at VMware and EMC, shaping sales strategies and execution.

Equal parts evangelist, strategist, and teacher, Jim has managed teams ranging from 10-100 direct reports. He has built sales organizations from the ground up at pre-revenue companies and driven attainment goals as high as $450M at established businesses. His expertise in go-to-market execution lies in navigating high-value, complex sales processes, honed across start-ups, growth-stage, and established technology disruptors.

Professionally, Jim is passionate about building high-performance sales teams and exemplifying excellence in prospecting and deal shaping. As a speaker, he aims to inspire audiences and equip them with actionable tools and best practices to enhance their impact.

Jim holds dual BS degrees in Finance and Philosophy from Boston College, underpinning his strategic thinking and ethical approach to leadership.

Andy (he/him) is the driving force behind customer success and support at Sysdig where he orchestrates a global team dedicated to delivering world-class service. Andy has a passion for building teams that are competitive differentiators — delivering excellent support and customer outcomes — and has proven this by building and scaling customer success teams for both startup and global enterprise companies.

Prior to joining Sysdig, Andy led the global customer success organization for Talkdesk, Cohesity, EMC, and FireEye. Andy’s expertise lies in scaling global success teams. 

Andy holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University.

Colleen (she/her) is responsible for Sysdig’s legal affairs, including licensing, intellectual property, compliance, privacy, and corporate governance. With more than 15 years of senior in-house counsel experience, she has spent the majority of her career advising tech companies of all sizes, most especially in the enterprise software and SaaS space. Colleen has deep experience in tech transactions focused on global commercial sales, business development, and strategic licensing, including open source and product support, with a special emphasis on scaling processes and legal teams to address deal velocity and rapid revenue growth.

Before joining Sysdig, Colleen held senior legal positions at Magento Commerce (acquired by Adobe), Nimble Storage (IPO and subsequently acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise), and VMware (IPO). She successfully helped lead the mergers of both Nimble Storage and Magento Commerce and worked with both acquiring companies to advise and integrate the legal processes post-acquisition.

Colleen holds a B.A. in Political Science from Whitman College and a Juris Doctorate from Santa Clara University School of Law. She is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

Omer Azaria is the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Sysdig, Inc., where he leads the development of Sysdig’s runtime CNAPP platform and oversees engineering, product management, and threat research. Omer joined Sysdig in 2018 as Director of Engineering, where he built the Sysdig Secure technology from the ground up and scaled a global team. His leadership was instrumental in positioning Sysdig Secure as a leader in the cloud security space. In March 2020, Omer was promoted to Vice President of Engineering, driving innovation across research and development.

Prior to joining Sysdig, Omer served as VP of Engineering at Imperva, a cybersecurity software and services company focused on protecting enterprise data and application software. While scaling the field R&D team, he collaborated closely with engineering, sales, and product teams on key deals and marquee accounts. Omer also bootstrapped a cloud data security product that processed petabytes of data daily, leveraging cutting-edge cloud-native technology to disrupt the market.