Suresh Vasudevan
CEO
Suresh Vasudevan serves as the Chief Executive Officer 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.S. 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 Degioanni
CTO & Founder
Loris Degioanni is the CTO and founder of Sysdig, the secure DevOps leader. 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.
Keegan Riley
Chief Revenue Officer
Keegan Riley 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.
Janet Matsuda
Chief Marketing Officer
Janet 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.
Larry Castro
Chief Financial Officer
Larry Castro is the Chief Financial Officer at Sysdig. Previously, he has spent the last three and a half years as the chief financial officer (CFO) at Telltale Games, an American video game developer and publishing company. Prior to joining Telltale Games, he was CFO of Jut, a streaming analytics data stack company. Castro spent time as the senior VP of finance at Riverbed Technology and prior to Riverbed, he was at Electronic Arts (EA) for more than 14 years. At EA, Castro wore many hats, including chief operating officer (COO) and CFO of the Redwood Shores Studio. He holds a B.S. in International Commerce and Finance from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.
John Martin
SVP Product & Corporate Strategy
John Martin spent almost 10 years at Riverbed as SVP products / GM, where he launched over a dozen software & hardware platforms and grew the WAN Op business to $800M revenue between 2005 and 2012, taking #1 market share. Prior to Riverbed, he spent 7 years at NetApp where he held various product roles in Europe and the US, during which time he also co-invented the ICAP protocol, now widely used in Web gateway security solutions. Before that, John was CTO at Terena and co-founded Unite Solutions, Ltd., one of Ireland’s first independent Internet service providers. He holds a BEng with honors in microelectronics and software engineering from the University of Newcastle.
Payal Chakravarty
VP Product Management
Payal Chakravarty runs Product Management at Sysdig for all its product lines. Prior to joining Sysdig, Payal ran product management, and previously engineering management at IBM managing their Cloud APM solution, IBM Cloud developer SaaS tools and several enterprise data-center management & analytics software. Payal holds an MBA from Duke University and MS in Computer Science from NC State University.
Adityashankar Kini
VP Engineering
Adityashankar Kini runs all development and operations at Sysdig, including software architecture, design, and delivery. Previously he led engineering for the Riverbed Stingray application delivery, security, and various SDN initiatives. He drove the vision for ADC services in a containerized, micro-services world, and in the process more than tripled revenue for the division. Previous to that he was head of development for the Riverbed Interceptor product, and in charge of the high speed kernel data path to enable delivery of traffic.
Paris Georgallis
VP Global Sales Engineering & Chief Customer Success Leader
Paris 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.