Co-Founder & CEO at Avid Secure (Acquired by LSE: SOPH)

Nikhil is the Vice President of Strategy for Cloud Security at Sophos, Inc, a global organization with teams located at the Corporate Headquarter in Oxford, England, as well as the US, Germany, India, and Canada. Sophos is listed in London Stock Exchange (LSE: SOPH). Nikhil joined Sophos, via the acquisition of Avid Secure, where he was the Co-Founder & CEO. 


About us

  More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos’ complete security solutions as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Simple to deploy, manage, and use, Sophos’ award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, mobile and network security solutions are backed by SophosLabs—a global network of threat intelligence centers. 

We began producing antivirus and encryption products nearly 30 years ago. Today our products help secure the networks of 100,000 businesses, including Pixar, Under Armour, Xerox, Ford, Avis, and Toshiba. 

As IT networks grow in complexity, we’re focused on keeping IT security simple and reliable. We know that a proper security strategy must include networks, servers and devices—all devices—managed easily through the cloud. We ensure your network’s security by providing the one thing no one else can: Simplicity. 

Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K., and is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol “SOPH.” More information is available at: www.sophos.com/company


      Sophos
  

End to end Agentless visibility and compliance across any cloud using the power of AI. 


Avid Secure Inc

Drove Public Cloud security strategy, solutions and partnerships for Forescout.   Strategized and worked closely with Global 2000 organizations on their Cloud, Data Center & IoT security strategy. Built the business case for ForeScout's foray in Data Center from scratch  and drove several 7 digit sales deals. 


Forescout Technologies Inc.

The Angels’ Forum is an early-stage angel group focused on high-growth investments. 


About us

  Since 1997, The Angels’ Forum (TAF) has been investing in, mentoring and advising Silicon Valley startups from the earliest stages all the way through a meaningful exit. We are a diverse group of 25 high-net-worth private investors, all of whom have been CEO’s, founders, or senior executives of successful entrepreneurial ventures.  We have the capital, time, experience, skills and passion to work with other entrepreneurs to build disruptive companies. Our focus is on early stage companies in a wide range of industry sectors. We limit our investments to companies headquartered within 50 miles of Mountain View, CA. As a result, our resources are close by when entrepreneurs need them most.


      The Angels' Forum
  

Led Networking security and operations product strategy and roadmap for vRealize Operations Insight Management software. 


At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. We look beyond the barriers of compromise to engineer new ways to make technologies work together seamlessly. Our compute, cloud, mobility, networking and security offerings form a digital foundation that powers the apps, services and experiences that are transforming the world.

Since our founding over two decades ago, our 24,000+ employee community and ecosystem of 75,000 partners have been behind the technology innovations transforming entire industries – from banking, healthcare, and government to retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, and transportation. 

Every day, we work to solve our customers’ toughest challenges through disruptive technologies like edge computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, machine learning, Kubernetes and more – to define the digital foundation that will accelerate the next wave of innovation.


      VMware
  

Led Product Strategy and roadmap for Cisco's market leading Fixed Data Center switching product (> 75% market share) with revenue greater than $1B+


About us

  Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) enables people to make powerful connections--whether in business, education, philanthropy, or creativity. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create the Internet solutions that make networks possible--providing easy access to information anywhere, at any time. 

Cisco was founded in 1984 by a small group of computer scientists from Stanford University. Since the company's inception, Cisco engineers have been leaders in the development of Internet Protocol (IP)-based networking technologies. Today, with more than 71,000 employees worldwide, this tradition of innovation continues with industry-leading products and solutions in the company's core development areas of routing and switching, as well as in advanced technologies such as home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. In addition to its products, Cisco provides a broad range of service offerings, including technical support and advanced services. 

Cisco sells its products and services, both directly through its own sales force as well as through its channel partners, to large enterprises, commercial businesses, service providers, and consumers.


      Cisco
  

Joined Ericsson through Entrisphere's acquisition, where I was member of the core team.  I was hand picked by valley veterans Bill Coughran,  Ken Thompson (Father of UNIX) and Phil Winterbottom.Managed technical pre-sales, account engagements, partnership and alliance engagements.
    
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We help our customers enable the full value of connectivity by creating game-changing technology and services that are easy to use, adopt and scale. Our comprehensive portfolio ranges across Networks, Digital Services, Managed Services and Emerging Business; powered by 5G and IoT platforms.

Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd.

Co-Founded Spocsol with a vision to build a next generation SaaS based Sales as a Service platform targeted to enable a market place for ISR (Independent Sales Representatives). Built a team of 10 people. Designed and developed MVP (minimal viable product). Used the tool to built a $1M+ revenue in services. During the economic melt down, wound down the operations and sold the company.Learnt invaluable lessons:- Hire and develop the best talent (No compromise shall be made on startup talent)- Customer Discovery shall be done before doing any coding
    
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Built Entrisphere's 1.0 product from ground up; took the product to market and got product qualified at various Tier1 customers. Responsible for 35% of company's sales during the first and second year. 


Entrisphere

Championed the business idea of developing cost reduced and next-generation Voice Over IP (VoIP) signaling gateway to increase the revenue three-folds under demanding conditions.



      Clarent Corporation
  

Designed and developed distributed system software for next generation Class 5 IP soft switch - an innovative distributed system. 


Lucent Technologies Bell Labs

About us

  We create the technology to connect the world. Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we serve communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and consumers, with the industry's most complete, end-to-end portfolio of products, services and licensing. Nokia is enabling the infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things, and shaping the future of technology to transform the human experience. https://www.nokia.com.
 
To view open positions and to apply, please visit: https://www.nokia.com/careers

Vice President Strategy, Cloud Security at Sophos

Sophos

Vice President Strategy, Cloud Security

Avid Secure Inc

Co-Founder & CEO (Acquired by Sophos, LSE: SOPH)

Forescout Technologies Inc.

Director of Business Development & Cloud Strategy

The Angels' Forum

Venture Advisor

VMware

Product Management | Software Defined Data Center

Cisco

Product Management | Data Center & Virtualization

Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd.

Sales and Solutions Management

Spocsol

Co-Founder and CEO

Entrisphere

Senior Software Engineer | Sales Engineer

Clarent Corporation

Product Management & Product Architect

Lucent Technologies Bell Labs

Senior Software Engineer / Software Architect

Nokia

Senior Software Engineer

Columbia Business School

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

London Business School

Master of Business Administration (MBA)

National Technology University

Computer Science & Engineering

Masters

Bangalore University

Computer Science

B.S.

Sardar Patel Vidyalaya

High School