Posted by Mumbai: Securonix, Inc., a Unified Defense SIEM provider has appointed Venkat Kotla as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
In the CTO’s role, Kotla is responsible for leading and scaling the company’s engineering function and fostering partnerships with leading technology organisations to support the growing demand for the company’s Unified Defense SIEM platform.
“I am thrilled to have Venkat join our executive leadership team,” said Nayaki Nayyar, CEO of Securonix.
“Venkat’s deep experience with advanced technologies, including AI, successfully expanding technology partnerships and streamlining processes across multiple stakeholders will be invaluable in driving product development that protects our customers from internal and external threats,” added Nayyar.
With over 25 years of experience at world-class enterprise software companies, Kotla brings an established track record of driving engineering innovation. He most recently served as VP and Head of Engineering for Economy BU at Atlassian, a leader in workplace productivity tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Kotla helped grow the Economy line of business to more than $500 million ARR.
Before joining Atlassian, Kotla spent over 14 years in senior engineering leadership roles at Google. He spent more than three years at Google as the Senior Director of Engineering for Google Assistant and Google Looker, a multi-cloud enterprise SaaS for business intelligence, data applications, and embedded analytics.
“I’m excited to join a team that is hyper focused on product development and deeply committed to innovation,” said Venkat Kotla. “SIEM is the backbone of cybersecurity defenses, and Securonix has long been the industry’s premier solution provider. I look forward to working with the leadership team to incorporate advanced technologies into the platform and aggressively develop new partnerships with the world’s leading technology providers,” added Kotla.