THE TEAM

Meet Our Team

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Purandar Das

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

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Purandar Das is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sotero. Throughout his career, he has focused on leveraging technology to solve complex business challenges.

His pragmatic approach enables world-class organizations to innovate and gain a competitive edge through new products and business lines that have added to their top line.

Purandar co-founded Sotero with the conviction that today’s data protection is deficient and that a better approach is needed to detect and stop attacks that exfiltrate data in real time. He is a firm believer that security, where the core focus is not the data, is not a viable option.

Most recently, Purandar served as CTO at Infogroup. Prior to Infogroup, Purandar was the CTO at Epsilon, where he led the Digital Solutions organization. He has held leadership & management roles at a variety of organizations. Purandar is a graduate of Texas A&M University (MS – Mechanical Engineering) and Bangalore University (BS – Mechanical Engineering).

Shanthi Boppana

Shanthi Boppana

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

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Shanthi Boppana is Sotero’s Co-founder and CTO, overseeing the company’s technology development.

Shanthi has held several senior technology positions throughout her career built innovative analytical solutions on a broad range of modern platforms. Before Co-founding Sotero she worked as Vice President of Big Data and Analytics at Infogroup where she was responsible for modernizing legacy platforms and re-architecting applications to leverage Cloud Computing.

Previously, Shanthi worked at a startup Syncra Systems where she architected the Value Chain Collaboration Platform which was acquired by Oracle in 2005. Shanthi also led the mobile advertising and data analytics platform at Nokia. She earned an M.S degree in Engineering Science from LSU.

Aboo Thanikkal

Aboo Thanikkal

Product Development

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Rajesh

Rajesh Chakravarthy

Product Development

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Chantel Pszenny

Chantel Pszenny

Marketing

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Michaelene Koskela

Michaelene Koskela

Sales & Business

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Shiv Chikkappa

Shiv Chikkappa

Product Development

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Vinay Kambam

Vinay Kambam

Product Development

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Hemalatha Gangineni

Product Development

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Shiva Nagaraja

Product Development

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Carol Meyers

Carol Meyers

Advisor

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Pat Dineen

Patrick Dineen

Advisor

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Tony Hadfield

Tony Hadfield

Advisor

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The Board

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Purandar Das

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Shanthi Boppana

Shanthi Boppana

Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder

Davoli

Bob Davoli

Chairman Of The Board
Gutbrain Capital

Bruce

Bruce Clarke

Board Member
PBJ Capital

Eric

Eric Schnadig

Independent Board Member

Investors

GutBrain

PBJ