Leadership

Knox Anderson

Vice President of Product Management

Knox (he/him) is responsible for product management at Sysdig. He has held product marketing, sales and product management roles throughout his career, including five years at Sysdig. As one of the first Sysdig employees, Knox has helped to lead Sysdig from the ground up, with a proven record of building, launching and growing security, health and compliance applications built on top of containers and kubernetes.

Knox has been behind several groundbreaking initiatives at Sysdig, including helping to launch and grow Sysdig Secure and developing the customer success program. Through his leadership, Knox has led many of Sysdig’s key partner programs, including AWS, IBM and Red Hat.

Before joining Sysdig, Knox held senior program manager roles at NuoDB, a distributed SQL database company, where he focused on creating technical content and demand generation to drive net new logos for the company.

Knox holds a BSBA in Management Information Systems and Services from Boston University Questrom School of Business.

Omer Azaria

Vice President of Research and Development

Omer (he/him) is Vice President of Research and Development at Sysdig, Inc. where he built Sysdig Secure from the ground up and scaled a global team. Omer’s direction helped position Sysdig Secure as the market leading Kubernetes and cloud security tool.

Prior to joining Sysdig, Omer was the VP Engineering at Imperva, a cybersecurity software and services company that provides protection to enterprise data and application software. While scaling the field R&D team, he worked closely with engineering, sales, and product teams on key deals and marquee accounts. Later, Omer bootstrapped a new cloud data security product, processing petabytes a day using state-of-the-art cloud-native technology to disrupt the market.

Omer is passionate about growing high performing teams and building successful products. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Originally from Israel, Omer moved to the United States in 2014 with his wife.

Loris Degioanni

Chief Technology Officer & Founder

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.

Paris Georgallis

Vice President of Global Sales Engineering & Chief Customer Success Leader

Paris (he/him) is the Vice President of Global Sales Engineering & Customer Success at Sysdig.

His passion is helping customers operating in cloud-native environments to maximize their investments and ROI by utilizing Sysdig to secure and manage their containers and microservices at scale, all while solving their most complex operational challenges.
Paris’ expertise lies in developing business solutions and operationalizing global data centers from the ground up.

Paris has a proven track record across multiple technologies and industries at organizations of all sizes — from early-stage companies to the Fortune 500. Prior to joining Sysdig, Paris served in leadership roles at Databricks, AppDynamics, RMS, EMC, GTS/Ebony, Qwest (now Centurylink) and CitiCorp.

At RMS, Paris delivered on the company’s hybrid cloud strategy on time and on budget, while scaling the teams in preparation for the launch of a significant SaaS product. At AppDynamics, Paris was instrumental in operationalizing professional services into a profitable team before successfully transforming the customer success organization into a distinct and separate organization. At Databricks, Paris scaled the services and education teams while doubling revenue and maintaining a high-quality delivery motion with high CSAT and NPS scores.

Paris holds a B.A. in both information studies and geography from Syracuse University.

Shanta Kohli

Vice President of Marketing, Demand Generation

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.

Colleen Lam

Vice President of Legal

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.

Janet Matsuda

Chief Marketing Officer

Janet (she/her) leads marketing at Sysdig. She is a computer scientist turned marketer with a proven track record of helping to build category leading companies and driving revenue growth. Prior to joining Sysdig, Janet served in leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, Nimble Storage, Blue Coat Systems and AMD. Janet repositioned Palo Alto Networks for the cloud security opportunity. At Nimble Storage she designed the predictive flash category, driving the next wave of growth and sale eighteen months later to HPE for $1 Billion. Under Janet’s leadership, the Blue Coat marketing team repositioned the company, revitalized the brand and built a demand creation engine, contributing to a company valuation that nearly doubled in three years. Janet holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Iowa and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Keegan Riley

Chief Revenue Officer

Keegan (he/him) leads all sales, presales, channel, and customer success functions. Prior to joining Sysdig, Keegan was VP of North American Data Storage Sales for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he lead a $1.5B annual business. Previous roles include VP of Americas Sales at Nimble Storage, and sales leadership roles at HP and EMC Corporation. Keegan holds an MBA from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife and two daughters.

Saro Subbiah

Vice President of Engineering and Technology, Monitor & Platform

Saro (he/him) is the Vice President of Engineering and Technology for Monitor & Platform at Sysdig. Saro leads all development, testing, delivery, and operations for the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform and Sysdig Monitor product lines. Prior to joining Sysdig, Saro was the Chief Technology Officer at Quid, an AI-powered SaaS data analytics company, until its acquisition in 2020. At Quid, Saro led the engineering, product, data science, and design teams.

Prior to Quid, Saro led the engineering team at Terracotta, a leader at that time in optimizing the performance of large-scale distributed applications. Saro was with Terracotta from an early stage through its acquisition by Software AG in 2011. He then joined Software AG as the Head of Engineering, focused on big data. Saro previously held engineering roles at Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. and Wipro Technologies. He holds a B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.

Suresh Vasudevan

Chief Executive Officer

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.

Karen Walker

Chief Financial Officer

Karen (she/her) has joined Sysdig as Chief Financial Officer and will play an instrumental role in managing the company’s growth and strategy. Karen is an experienced and accomplished executive having served both pre-IPO and public companies. She brings over 20 years of experience across corporate finance, accounting and compliance, and investor relations. She has held executive positions at a wide network of industry leaders including PagerDuty, Uber Technologies, Pandora Media, CBS Interactive and Virgin America.

Throughout her career Karen has scaled finance teams in high growth and global organizations to deliver stakeholder value – most notably at Uber Technologies. She also led early IPO readiness at Uber and Virgin America. Karen has deep experience in M&A having participated in and led many aspects of nearly a dozen transactions including the successful sale of Pandora Media to Sirius XM. Karen has also played a key role in developing strategic positioning having built and led the investor relations function at PagerDuty.

She holds a BA in Accounting from Southern Methodist University. Karen is an executive director of a non-profit board, the Golden West Chapter of the ALS Association.

Paul Whitney

Chief Human Resource Officer

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.

Phil Williams

Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategic Alliances

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.