Management Team
Chander Kant
Chander is the CEO and a founder of Zmanda. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. He has been involved on both the technology and business sides of open source software and was named one of the "Top 20 Linux Luminaries" by Linux World Magazine in 2004. Prior to Zmanda, Chander founded and ran LinuxCertified, Inc., an open source product and services company. Earlier in his career, Chander was a business development executive at VERITAS software and served as a product line manager for storage software at SGI. Chander holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Paddy Sreenivasan
Paddy is the Vice President of Engineering and a founder of Zmanda, Inc. He is responsible for technical strategy and development of leading software products for data protection. Paddy has over 13 years of experience in development and management of software for enterprise storage. In addition, he has worked with various open source communities, including leading the development of an open source high-availability clustering solution. Prior to founding Zmanda, he had key engineering roles at Cisco, SGI and HP. He holds a Bachelor's degree from BITS, Pilani and a Master's degree from the University of Pune, India.
Dmitri Joukovski
Dmitri is Zmanda's Vice President of Product Management. Having extensive experience in product management of enterprise software, Dmitri is responsible for all aspects of product management at Zmanda. Prior to joining Zmanda, he was a consulting product manager at EMC Corporation, where he was responsible for business integration across product lines within the EMC Software Group. In addition, Dmitri has been a principal product manager for Legato NetWorker, a leading enterprise backup and recovery product. Dmitri holds a Master's degree in Physics from St. Petersburg University in Russia and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Ram “TK” Krishnamurthy
TK is Zmanda's Vice President of Services, Support and IT operations. TK is responsible for Zmanda's worldwide customer services, which includes customer support, training and consulting services. TK has more than 12 years of experience in professional services for enterprise software and IT infrastructure. Prior to joining Zmanda, TK held various roles with SGI. In his last position there, TK managed professional services operations for the Asia-Pacific region. Earlier he was part of the field technical support group where he led the strategic planning, implementation and support of complex SGI installations worldwide. TK holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Madras and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
K. K. George
KK is the Vice President of Zmanda's India Development Center in Pune. He has 14 years of experience and has worked extensively in the storage domain. He also has extensive experience in setting up development teams in India for US based companies. Prior to joining Zmanda, he was Director of development at CA. Previously, he was the Director of Engineering at Intransa's development center in Pune and was instrumental in setting up its development team. Before joining Intransa, he held various positions at VERITAS. KK holds a Bachelor's degree from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum and a Master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai.
Board of Directors
Peter Buhl
General Partner, co-founded BlueRun Ventures in 1998. Prior to BlueRun Ventures, Pete spent 8 years in senior financial and operational roles at information technology companies including Ipsilon Networks and Software Alliance Corporation. He began his career at Price Waterhouse and is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to Zmanda, Pete serves on the Board of Directors of Atrua Technologies, Cornice, FreedomPay, Netli, Nevis Networks and WaveMarket.
Deepak Kamra
General Partner, joined Canaan in 1991 after eleven years of operating responsibility in the telecommunications, computer, and software industries. Prior to joining Canaan, he held several senior sales and marketing positions at Aspect Communications, a successful Silicon Valley based startup in the call-center and switching industry. He previously held positions at ROLM Corporation and was General Manager of a division of TRW Datacomm International. He received a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Carleton University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. In addition to Zmanda, Deepak currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Aperto Networks, e4e, GroundWork, InfiniRoute, Loyalty Lab, ON24, and Qovia.
Ashish Gupta
Managing Director and an Investment Advisor at Helion Ventures Partners. Prior to Helion, Ashish was most recently a venture partner at Woodside Fund, investing in early stage companies. He invested in and co-founded Tavant technologies, a $50 million+ revenue company. Before Tavant, he was at Amazon.com which he joined through acquisition of Junglee which Ashish co–founded. He has also worked at Oracle Corporation and at IBM's Almaden Research Center. Ashish holds a Ph.D. from Stanford and a bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, where he was awarded the President's Gold medal.
Chander Kant
Chander is the CEO and a founder of Zmanda. Chander provides a unique combination of leadership in open source and data protection software. He has been involved on both the technology and business sides of open source software and was named one of the "Top 20 Linux Luminaries" by Linux World Magazine in 2004. Prior to Zmanda, Chander founded and ran LinuxCertified, Inc., an open source product and services company. Earlier in his career, Chander was a business development executive at VERITAS software and served as a product line manager for storage software at SGI. Chander holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BS in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur.
