Kapalya

Saeed Khosravi has more than 20 years of design, support and automation of service providers, security, voice, wireless and cloud network. He is the co-founder and CTO of KAPALYA Inc., a cyber security startup, which has developed an encryption management platform (EMP), for unstructured data. Saeed used to work as Network Engineer at World Wide Technology and Bloomberg LP. He was also a Solution Engineer at Hawaiian Telcom, BlackBerry (Research In Motion), Bell Canada and Consultant at NorthwesTel. Saeed received a Master of Engineering in Computer Networks from Ryerson University. Saeed received his bachelor's in Computer Science and he is very passionate about programming and automation. He developed programs in Ansible, Python, Assembly, C/C++, Visual Basic in a multi-OS environment.

Sudesh Kumar has more than 25 years of IT, mobility, security, networking, Cloud computing and Project Management experience and is the Founder of Kapalya. Due to his solid relationship with the NSA, Sudesh was able to enter into a collaborative research and development agreement (CRADA) with them for an “advanced ransomware countermeasures” technology. Under his leadership, Kapalya won the coveted SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Mr. Kumar has spoken at multiple industry events including being a panel speaker on Cloud Security at MetricStream’s summit and being a presenter at TechConnect’s Defense Innovation Cybersecurity Conference. He was featured in Pacific Business News magazine and is recognized as an industry thought leader on cyber security by The Cybersecurity Excellence Committee, where he won a gold medal for his work at Kapalya. He chaired a panel of CIOs at Hawaiian Telcom university. Sudesh received an honors degree in Electronics and Electrical Commnications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT). He also completed an executive MBA program for corporations at the University of California, Los Angeles and is an alum of the Alchemist Accelerator, San Francisco.

As an EVP and CEO of HDgtl Inc., Ananth is responsible for business strategy from concept to execution across agile product development, testing, go to market planning and execution, capital raise and company operations.

Derek is a Product Manager at Amazon Web Services. He was the former Global VP of Products at Thales eSecurity.

Greg previously served as Executive Vice President, Global Sales Leader and Board Member of Hitachi Solutions America, Senior Vice President of Hitachi Consulting and co-founder of Iteration2.

Jagdish is Director at MetricStream. He works as a Consultant, Investor for Startups.

John is our Director of Public Sector Sales. He has worked for several startup companies over the past 20 years and for industry leaders like RSA, CA Technologies and Verizon

Michael used to work at EnTrust for over 7 years. He is a great engineer with excellent technical skills and a top-ranked business mindset.

Mohamed works as CALTROP Head of Sales and Strategies. He is Sales & Operations Leader with 16+ years’ experience in spearheading strategic operations, launching new divisions, managing international acquisitions, driving double-digit YoY growth across top and bottom line, and successfully capturing market share.