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Overview

Organizations are shifting to an identity-first posture for cybersecurity with today’s distributed workforce and migration to the cloud. Attivo Networks, a SentinelOne company, provides Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) and cyber deception solutions for protecting against identity compromise, privilege escalation, and lateral movement attacks. The platform efficiently prevents attacks across Active Directory, cloud environments, and devices through data cloaking, misdirection, and cyber deception.

Senior Management

Tushar Kothari—Chief Executive Officer

Tushar Kothari

Chief Executive Officer

Tushar Kothari—Chief Executive Officer

Tushar Kothari is a technology executive with over 25 years of experience including general management; revenue growth and retention; go-to-market strategy; product development; business operations; and strategy.

Tushar brings a proven track record in creating new markets, rapidly scaling product sales, and developing partner eco-systems that drive revenue growth. He possesses a wealth of strategic experience and operational capabilities with an emphasis on sales and business development across security and networking.

At Attivo, we are changing the landscape for cybersecurity defense. Cyber attackers are creative, fast, and increasingly more malicious. In the age of the perimeter-less network, there are no longer rigid walls to keep the attackers out. Built on this premise, Attivo takes a different and innovative approach. Instead of focusing on preventing attackers from getting in, Attivo uses dynamic deception to detect the attackers that have made their way inside the network, identifies them, and empowers organizations to promptly shut down the cyber attack.

“I am passionate about creating cultures of innovation. I believe that when a group of people is empowered to think without boundaries, they can change the world. “

Security Career Experience: Attivo Networks, Cisco, Juniper Networks

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Carolyn Crandall—Chief Deception Officer/CMO

Carolyn Crandall

Chief Security Advocate/CMO

Carolyn Crandall—Chief Security Advocate/CMO

Carolyn holds the roles of Chief Security Advocate and CMO at Attivo Networks. She is a high-impact technology executive with over 30 years of experience in building new markets and successful enterprise infrastructure companies. She has a demonstrated track record of effectively taking companies from pre-IPO through to multi-billion-dollar sales and has held leadership positions at Cisco, Juniper Networks, Nimble Storage, Riverbed, and Seagate. Carolyn is recognized as a global thought leader in technology trends and for building strategies that connect technology with customers to solve difficult operations, digitalization, and security challenges. Her current focus is on breach risk mitigation by teaching organizations how to shift from a prevention-based cybersecurity infrastructure to one of an active security defense based on the adoption of deception technology.

“If you travel a path that is already well traveled, you won’t likely discover anything new. Be curious, take chances, and remember we are never lost, just exploring”

Carolyn is an active evangelist, blogger, byline contributor, and speaker on industry trends and security innovation. She has spoken at industry events around the world, has been a guest on Fox News, has been profiled by the San Jose Mercury News, and has received many industry recognitions including Top 25 Women in Cybersecurity 2019 by Cyber Defense Magazine, Reboot Leadership Honoree (CIO/C-Suite) 2018 by SC Media, Marketing Hall of Femme Honoree 2018 by DMN, Business Woman of the Year 2018 by CEO Today Magazine, Cyber Security Marketer of the Year 2020 by CyberDojo (RSA), and for 9 years a Power Woman by Everything Channel (CRN). Additionally, Carolyn serves as an Advisory Board Member for the Santa Clara University Executive MBA program and co-authored the book Deception-based Threat Detection, Shifting Power to the Defenders.

Security Career Experience: Attivo Networks, Cisco, Juniper Networks

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Srikant Vissamsetti

Srikant Vissamsetti

Senior Vice-President of Engineering

Srikant Vissamsetti—SVP Engineering

Srikant is responsible for setting the company’s product vision and for the development of the Attivo deception platform and portfolio. Srikant carries over 25 years of experience in leadership and engineering roles and has a proven track record in building and managing global engineering teams.

Srikant brings extensive security product development leadership experience to Attivo. Prior to joining Attivo, Srikant was the Vice President of Network Security for McAfee/Intel Security, where he was responsible for the McAfee Network Security platform (NSP) and Network Behavior Analysis (NTBA) product development. The NSP is the market leading next generation network IPS product and has placed favorably in multiple Gartner Magic Quadrants. Prior to McAfee, Srikant was a co-founder at IntruVert Networks, which was acquired by McAfee.

Srikant holds a MS, Computer Science degree from University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He also holds 6 patents in network security.

“There is nothing more invigorating than challenging status-quo, especially when it centers on the creation of innovative technologies that enable customers to defend their enterprise against the most modern and malicious types of cyber attacks.”

Security Career Experience: Attivo Networks, McAfee/Intel Security, IntruVert Networks

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Sara Ashburn SVP Sales

Sarah Ashburn

SVP Sales and Customer Success

Sarah Ashburn—SVP Sales and Customer Success

Sarah Ashburn is the Attivo Networks SVP Sales and Customer Success and is responsible for aggressively driving the company’s domestic sales strategy, expansion, and high performance team development. Sarah is a seasoned sales executive with over 25 years of sales experience, covering all markets including enterprise and mid-market organizations. Sarah is recognized for her sales leadership and track record of closing $1B in sales throughout her career.

Sarah has a unique background that allows her to understand her customers’ vision and needs. Her tenure includes working directly with the CEO of Symantec, as the Chief of Staff, which allowed her to view business from the top down. Prior to that, she gained valuable experience leading the M&A Integration office, which exposed her to the value of brand awareness and perception in the market. Driving value to the customer is her top priority, and she works tirelessly to create mutually successful business outcomes. Sarah propels quality customer engagement by partnering with the Engineering team to ensure feedback gained from customers is actualized. Her broad and unique expertise are strengths that will be leveraged to position Attivo Networks as the leader in deception for cyber security defense.

“The voice of the customer is the voice that matters.”

Security Career Experience: Attivo Networks, Symantec

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Jilbert Washten—Chief Financial Officer

Jilbert Washten

Chief Financial Officer

Jilbert Washten—Chief Financial Officer

Jilbert Washten is Attivo Networks Chief Financial Officer. He is responsible for all financial aspects of the company including negotiations in acquisitions on both the buyer and seller sides of transactions and the management of all of the company’s financial operations. He brings over 20 years of broad-based experience in finance and corporate accounting.

Most recently, he served as Chief Financial Officer at Ascentis Corporation, where he played a key role in the company’s rapid growth and successful sale. Jilbert also served as Vice President of Finance for Cloudmark, Inc, a privately held venture-backed messaging security company. Prior to Cloudmark, he held various finance leadership positions in high technology and managed service provider companies.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo, with an emphasis in Economics and International Management.

“An optimized balance of revenue to expense creates my favorite financial cocktail.”

Security Career Experience: Attivo Networks, Cloudmark, Inc.

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Tony Cole -Chief Technology Officer

Tony Cole

Chief Technology Officer

Tony Cole—Chief Technology Officer

Tony Cole is the CTO at Attivo Networks, the leader in the Cyber Deception space working to deceive, detect, and defend enterprises from cyber-attacks.

Prior to joining Attivo Networks, Mr. Cole held executive positions at FireEye, McAfee and Symantec. He’s retired from the U.S. Army, where he worked in intelligence, communications, cryptography, around the world including building out the Network Security Services at the Pentagon.

He previously advised Wall Street on security technology and was on the advisory board for Secure Elements prior to its sale to Fortinet. Mr. Cole has served on the US President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee’s IoT security subcommittee. He also served on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC-V). Mr. Cole served previously on the Board of Directors for Silent Circle, and today serves on Bayshore Networks Advisory Board. In 2017, he was elected by (ISC)² constituents to serve on their Board of Directors and was also appointed by the NASA Administrator to the NASA Advisory Council (NAC). He is a former president of the Information Systems Security Association -District of Columbia.

Mr. Cole speaks at security conferences across the globe such as the G20, RSA Conference, World Economic Forum, Munich Security Conference, CyberTech, and has been a contributing author to the SANS Institutes’ publications and classes. He’s been featured online and on TV and radio, such as CNN, BBC, Politico, the Hill, Washington Business Journal, ABC, USA Today, and the Washington Times.

In 2014, he received the Government Computer News Industry IT Executive of the Year award, and in 2015 he was inducted into the Wash 100 by Executive Mosaic as one of the most influential executives impacting Government. In 2018 he was awarded the Reboot Leadership Influencer Award by SC Media. Mr. Cole is also a volunteer member of the WhiteHat USA Board, a charity benefiting Children’s National Medical Center. He has a bachelor’s degree in computer networking and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).

“CISOs have a thankless job of countering the ruthless adversary, our drive and passion for solving cybersecurity problems helps us build solutions to solve some of their toughest challenges.”

Security Career Experience: FireEye, McAfee, Symantec, the U.S. Army, and on the US President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee’s IoT security subcommittee and the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC-V)

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Mano Murthy—Co-founder, Board member and Executive Vice President

Mano Murthy

Co-founder, Board Member and Executive Vice-President

Mano Murthy—Co-founder, Board member and Executive Vice President

Mano is a Co-founder, Board Member, and Executive Vice President at Attivo Networks. Mano is a serial entrepreneur with Attivo being his 4th start-up. He has over 35 years of product development and management experience in high technology. Mano is a results oriented leader with a knack for finding the right balance of being customer focused and for engineering innovation and execution.

Prior to co-founding Attivo, Mano was Co-founder and CEO of Allegro Systems, which was acquired by Cisco Systems, Co-founder and Vice President of Software at Assured Access Technology which was acquired by Alcatel, Co-founder and Director of Software at Alantec, Inc, which has its first public offering in 1994 and subsequently merged with Fore Systems in 1996.

Mano has a BSEE in Electrical Engineering from Bangalore University and graduate studies in Computer Science from Stanford University, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from University of California Davis and Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani.

Mano holds key patents in core networking and switching in port mirroring (port and is known for developing one of the earliest L2/L3 (switching/routing) technologies integrated in one appliance. He also holds a patent in port monitoring (port mirroring, SPAN ports) and port groups by VLANs. He was one of the first to develop and implement the concept of port groups, VLANs, and allowing subnets to span multiple interfaces in Alantec’s PowerHub.

“A startup company is a lot like the creative art form of music. You plant a seed (an idea or a musical concept) and nurture that seed into something that the consumer (listener) wants. All, while having fun doing it.”

Security Career Experience: Allegro Systems (VPN security), Attivo Networks

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Marc Feghali

Co-founder and Vice-President of Product Management

Marc Feghali—Co-founder and VP of Product Management

Marc is a co-founder of Attivo networks and is Vice President of Product Management. He has over 20 years of product management and marketing experience in high technology. Marc is a leader with a knack for finding the right balance of being customer focused and for engineering innovation.

At Attivo Marc is responsible for creating the product roadmap and technical customer engagement and programs. His charter includes delivering the right balance of feature innovation, development investment, and alignment to customer interest and expectations.

Prior to joining Attivo, Marc held product management and marketing leadership roles at Cisco Systems, Echelon, 3Com, Compaq and other technology companies.

Marc holds a MBA from Northeastern Illinois University.

“It’s easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is prioritizing these new ideas and achieving the right balance of value, innovation, and fulfillment of customer needs.”

Security Career Experience: Attivo Networks, Cisco Systems, and 3COM

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Venu Vissamsetty—VP Security Research

Venu Vissamsetty

Vice-President of Security Research

Venu Vissamsetty—VP Security Research

Venu is responsible for the company’s security research and for the development of the Attivo deception solutions. He carries over 20 years of experience developing security information technology solutions.

Venu brings extensive security expertise in both cyber attack detection and attack analysis to Attivo. Prior to joining Attivo, Venu was Director of Software Development for McAfee/Intel Security, where he was responsible for the McAfee Advanced Threat Defense, which does dynamic malware analysis (sandboxing) to analyze the actual behavior of malware and provide real time analysis. He also holds experience as a software development engineer working on Intrusion Prevention for the McAfee Network Security Division (IntruShield). Before McAfee, Venu was a software engineer at IntruVert Networks, which was acquired by McAfee.

Venu holds a BE, Engineering from Osmania University in India. He also holds 2 patents and has filed for 5 patents in network security.

“Defense in depth. Attivo detection provides an additional and critical layer of cyber defense. It is the last and sometimes final line of defense that no one should be without for their most critical assets”

Security Career Experience: Attivo Networks, McAfee/Intel Security, IntruVert Networks

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Functional Management

Ashok Shah—VP Finance

Ashok Shah

Vice-President Finance

Ashok Shah—VP Finance

Ashok Shah is the Attivo Networks VP of Finance and is responsible for overseeing all functions of Accounting, Finance, Legal and basic HR including planning, budgeting, and daily operations. He is an experienced finance and business leader with over 25 years of experience. Ashok has a broad background in accounting, financial planning, operation leadership and has applied his skills to both business and charitable organizations.

Prior to joining Attivo Networks, Ashok was President and CEO of Quality Reprographics for 18 years. In parallel, Ashok was also the Treasurer and VP of Finance (pro bono) for the Foundation of Excellence, which identified exceptionally bright students in India and provided them with scholarships for their studies based on educational merits and financial needs. Before this, he served as a Controller for SIMCO Electronics and Bentley Engineering.

Ashok holds a Masters Degree in International Management with Finance and Accounting Majors from Thunderbird University.
Professional Qualifications include Chartered Accountant (India) and CPA

“When others see obstacles; I focus on the objectives. I line up the challenges one by one to solve them and with the right patience and persistence even the most complicated matters can be resolved.”

Security Career Experience: Attivo Networks

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Shivakumar Buruganahalli, Senior Director of Engineering

Shivakumar Buruganahalli

Senior Director of Engineering

Shivakumar Buruganahalli—Senior Director of Engineering

Shivakumar is a passionate technology leader with a proven track record of building security products and solutions. He is a key contributor to Attivo’s vision bringing his ingenuity and engineering skills for architecting deception platforms. His role at Attivo includes working closely with customers, managing teams, bridging customers with engineering as well as product management teams.

Shiva has 20+ years of experience working for various successful startups centered around network and security. Prior to Attivo Shiva had worked as a staff engineer at Palo Alto Networks developing IPS solutions. Before that he was a key contributor architecting as well as successfully delivering a variety of platforms and solutions for Network based Intrusion Prevention technologies including SSL decryption for content inspection at McAfee’s NSP.

Shiva holds a BE in Computer Engineering from Bangalore University, India and Masters in Engineering Management from Santa Clara University. He also holds 8 approved patents and 1 pending, all in the field of security.

“There is no silver bullet for security, but Attivo’s Deception does the magic.”

Security Career Experience: Palo Alto Networks, McAfee/Intel, Corona Networks
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Robert Crisp VP-FTOps

Robert Crisp

Vice-President Field Technical Operations

Robert Crisp—VP Field Technical Operations

Robert Crisp is a veteran of the high-tech industry with over 20 years of experience in working with market leading companies. Robert joined Attivo Networks as the Area Vice President of Sales and quickly moved into the VP of Field Technical Operations where he oversees the Sales Engineering team.

He began his career as in Information Technology in 1992 in Network Operation. He transitioned to the sales and technical side in 1995, and moved into the manufacturing space first as a Federal Sales Engineer at 3COM and then in a variety of commercial and Federal roles with Extreme Networks. He also served as VP of World Side System Engineering for Meru Networks for over 11 years before transitioning into his current role in May of 2015.

Robert attended The University of Glamorgan where he achieved his B.S. Computer Science.

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Ray Kafity Vice President - Middle East Turkey and Africa (META)

Ray Kafity

Vice-President - Middle East Turkey and Africa (META)

Ray Kafity—VP Middle East Turkey and Africa (META)

Ray Kafity has extensive experience in Sales and Marketing Management of high-tech solutions with a solid emphasis on Information Technology/Telecommunications including Wide Area, Local Area Networking, and Cyber Security Solutions. Ray comes with extensive industry experience in broadband telcommunications, Internet Acceleration through Caching Appliances, Internet/Web Content Security Networks and Application acceleration, and various Cyber Security prevention and detection solutions.

“I thrive in bringing high caliber niche technologies to the META region. I am very proud to state that Attivo Networks is a disruptive advanced Cyber threat detection technology that is a must have for enterprises and organizations across the world including the META region.”

Prior to Attivo Networks, Ray was the VP of FireEye Middle East, Turkey and Africa where he succeeded in taking FireEye revenues from $300K in 2010 to over $30 Million in 2015. Prior to FireEye, Ray was the Regional Sales Director for IronPort Systems in Middle East and Africa before it was acquired by Cisco in June 2007. Prior to that, Kafity was the General Manager for Blue Coat Systems (Formerly CacheFlow) for the Middle East in Dubai.

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Mark Howell-Vice President of UK and Ireland Operations

Mark Howell

Vice-President - UK and Ireland Operations

Mark Howell—Vice President of UK and Ireland Operations

Mark Howell is the Attivo Networks Vice President of UK and Ireland Operations. Mark is responsible for scaling the Attivo customer development efforts around its ThreatDefend™ Deception and Response Platform by leveraging his 20+ years’ experience in developing enterprise and channel distribution partnerships throughout the region.

Prior to joining Attivo Networks, Howell was the UK and Ireland Country Manager for BDNA (acquired by Flexera), where he managed the software supply chain company’s operations in the region for the past two years. Before joining BDNA, Howell was the Country Manager of fast-growing wireless LAN provider Meru Networks (acquired by Fortinet). At Meru, Howell received the International Sales Manager of the Year Award in 2009. Howell also brings extensive experience managing the EMEA distribution channel for Juniper Networks and Cisco.

“I’m passionate about bringing great technologies to market that solve real customer issues, through trusted partner relationships.”

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Jim Cook—Regional Director

Jim Cook

Regional Director

Jim Cook—Regional Director

Jim manages commercial operations for Attivo Networks in the ANZ region. He is a passionate Sales Leader and Country Manager with an 18 year history as a sales specialist selling solutions to Enterprise Customers, Telcos and MSPs. He works with the many of the highest profile businesses in ANZ both as customers and as partners.

He believes in building strong customer and partner business relationships which result in a deeper, more consistent, open partnerships.

Prior to joining Attivo Jim brought the Malwarebytes offering to ANZ – building up a team from just himself to 16 people over 3 years and developing a strong market presence in the enterprise and MSP space. Before this Jim worked as Country Manager for Fortinet and spent 8 years as a sales manager and sales person at Check Point software.

“Customer experience is the leading indicator for success in sales.”

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Jeremy Ho Director, Southeast Asia

Jeremy Ho

Vice-President - APAC

Jeremy Ho—Director, Southeast Asia

Jeremy brings forth 20 years of experience in Cyber Security, ranging from technology to professional services. He has held leadership positions with cyber security companies that see him building regional teams, new business offerings and executing go-to-market sales strategies in a diverse Asia Pacific and Japan geography. Jeremy believes in communicating business value and work closely with channels across the regions. Previously, he worked for Symantec running Cyber Security Services in APJ where he has forged a trusted advisor status in many complex cyber security requirements. With an aptitude for analytical thinking to make critical decisions, he seeks and listens to customer on their requirements and works towards delivering them. Jeremy is now responsible for Attivo Networks, South East Asia.

“Cybersecurity is not an IT Project. It is a journey that we walk together as partners.”

Security Career Experience: Symantec, Mandiant-Fireeye, Accessdata, Cyberbit

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Todd Helfrich—Vice President of Federal

Todd Helfrich

Vice President of Federal

Todd Helfrich—Vice President of Federal

Todd Helfrich, Vice President of Federal at Attivo Networks, helps his clients move past simply responding to incidents and events to directly addressing their active cybersecurity threats. Todd brings frontline experience to the fight against adversaries. Over the last 20 years, Todd has helped clients overcome security architecture weaknesses; devised system vulnerability strategies; crafted resilient security architectures; supported SOC procedure development within SLED/International/CI-KR partnerships at US-CERT; and ran the Internal Revenue Service CSIRC. At Hewlett-Packard, Todd worked with industry and government to support the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation rollout. Today, Todd applies his security expertise to help Attivo Networks Federal customers and prospects solve their present-day security challenges through thought provoking requirements discussions and the application of innovative technology that Attivo Networks provides.

“There’s nothing more fulfilling than knowing I’ve helped my customer succeed at their job.”

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B.J. Shanker—Co-founder and VP of Operations

B.J. Shanker

Co-founder and Vice-President of Operations

B.J. Shanker—Co-founder and VP of Operations

B.J. is a co-founder of Attivo networks and is responsible for the company’s operations and excellence in customer delivery and satisfaction. He is a seasoned operations and engineering leader with 30+ years of experience in seamlessly taking numerous disruptive technologies from concept to high volume production and in the operational management of rapidly changing start-ups. B.J. is known for his global cross-functional team leadership and for creating cultures that foster teamwork, collaboration, and innovation.

B.J. brings over 30 years of engineering and operations experience that he has gained in his roles as the co-founder and Director of Operations for Allegro Systems, which was acquired by Cisco Systems and as co-founder and Vice President of Operations at Izspot Systems. His prior experience included being the Manager, HW Engineering, Data Center, Switching and Services Group for Cisco Systems, Director of Engineering and Operations at Silicon Light Machines, which was acquired by Cypress Semiconductor, various engineering and design roles at National Semiconductor and Amdahl.

BJ holds a MS, in Chemical Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit. He also holds 5 patents for networking hardware.

“By design, start-ups must constantly question what could be better. Movement must be agile and deterministic to ensure product delivery, high customer satisfaction, and adaptation to market demand.”

Security Career Experience: Attivo Networks

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AWARDS FOR ATTIVO NETWORKS SOLUTIONS

The Attivo team is proud to have received industry accolades and awards recognizing Attivo solutions as game-changing for organizations of all sizes and sectors. Visit the Attivo Networks Awards and Recognition Page to see the full listing of awards.

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