Shashi Kiran joins us as our new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) based out of Nile’s San Jose HQ. He joins us from Check Point Software, a leading cyber security vendor, where he most recently served as its CMO. During his nearly 30-year career, Shashi has formerly held marketing and product leadership roles in public companies like Cisco, VMware, Nortel as well as several venture-backed startups in the networking, security and cloud infrastructure domains.

Shashi holds a Bachelors in Electronics Engineering from Bangalore University with an MBA in Marketing. He also has done execution education stints at Stanford, Harvard and MIT.