At Threat.Technology we track over 100,000 infosec, cyber security, military and cyber startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top India based Managing Director operating in the Security space. If you think a Managing Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Anand Deshpande
Managing Director & CEO of Persistent Systems
Anand Deshpande is the Founder, Chairman, and Managing Director of Persistent Systems. He is responsible for the overall leadership, strategy, and management of the company. A true technology visionary, Anand’s strengths lie in identifying and investing in next-generation technologies early on and encouraging internal entrepreneurship to ensure that Persistent stays at the forefront of technology innovation. Anand has been the driving force in growing Persistent from start-up to the publically-traded global company of today. Anand has been recognized for his technology and business leadership as well as his contributions to public welfare. His recent awards include the CSI Fellowship Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Information Technology, the Career Achievement Award from the School of Informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington and the IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award. Active in various professional and charitable organizations, Anand has served as a member of the Executive Committee of NASSCOM Executive Council, and has served as President of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) India, President of SEAP (Software Exporters’ Association of Pune), and Chairman of the Pune Chapter of CSI (Computer Society of India). He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the Dean’s Advisory Council of the School of Informatics of Indiana University and the Executive Committee of MCCIA (Maratha Chamber of Commerce Industries & Agriculture). Anand is currently co-chairing the VLDB 2016 (Very Large Data Bases) conference. With the vision of creating a vibrant entrepreneurial ecosystem in India, he is the founding member of iSPIRT, India’s first product think tank. Prior to founding Persistent Systems in 1990, Anand began his career at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto, California. Anand holds a B. Tech (Hons.) in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and a Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Anand is an avid reader who enjoys non-fiction, especially all things science and technology.
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About Aepona, deAsra Foundation, Persistent Systems: Persistent Systems offers software product concept and design, performance engineering, quality assurance, and other professional services.
Sandeep Shah
Managing Director of Optimized Electrotech
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About Optimized Electrotech, Optimized Solutions Ltd: Long distance, multispectral Surveillance Equipment for Defense, Aerospace, Critical Asset Protection
Sunil Udupa
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Securens
Sunil R Udupa is a veteran in Banking & Payment Industry with 25 years of experience. He has a history of building many successful companies from scratch. He is a Graduate from College of Engineering, Pune where he passed B.E. (Electrical Engineering) with distinction and then got his Masters in Information Engineering from the reputed City University, London.
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About Securens: Securens Systems Pvt. Ltd. provides monitoring of intrusion alarm systems for banks, ATMs, vehicle, retail establishments, jewelry shops,
Rama Sivaraman
Managing Director (India) of MENTIS
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About MENTIS: Gartner Peer Insights: Customer’s Choice for Data Masking 2020
Ajay Sawant
CEO & Managing Director of Orient Technologies
Ajay Sawant is CEO and Managing Director, who has founded Orient Group of Companies. He is an innovator, trend-setter and is a seasoned entrepreneur with a track record of success. Graduating in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai University with more than 25 years of experience in Sales, Engineering & Business Development of various products and services, he brings a combination of aggressive execution and top class operating experience, required to build and scale rapidly growing IT companies. He is a mentor to the core team and enjoys playing role of Strategist. Ajay leads the organization and under his able leadership, Orient has grown leaps and bounds.
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About Orient Technologies: Orient Technologies is a leading SI and a premier solution provider in IT space.
Christopher Arvinth
CEO & Managing Director of Stalwart Security Services India Ltd
Christopher Arvinth is the CEO and Managing Director at Stalwart Security Services India Ltd.
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About Stalwart Security Services India Ltd: Stalwart Security Services India Ltd is a leading security guards and services provider in Bangalore, Comibatore, Chennai & PAN India.
K N Pimple
Managing Director of CISB
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About CISB: CISB is a leading and renowned provider of security and facility management solutions.
Mehul Doshi
Managing Director of Jainam Technologies
A “renowned face” among who’s who of Information Security architecture and implementation. Mehul is also tagged as chief infosec architect due to his varied expertise in variety of engineering, advisory and management roles in technology for almost 20 years. Mehul is best known for his development of the concept of “Coordinated Threat Control” or CTC which has since been adopted by some of the world’s leading information technology vendors including Juniper Networks. Mehul has been nominated onto the Boards and Information Security panels of Government and Defense Organizations in India as well as the Security Advisory Boards for some of the world’s leading Information Security companies including Symantec. Over the past decade Jainam has been consistently recognized as ‘a master information Security integrator’. Under his leadership, Jainam has extended from national to international horizons all across Asia Pacific and Japan. Jainam has been crafted to a security specialist with engineers and consultants delivering world-class ‘defensive’ and ‘offensive’ security solutions and services. Central to his approach is the commercialization of a suite of vendor agnostic certified and “per-integrated” solutions for the 133 information security controls outlined in ISO/IEC 27002. Mehul has guided Jainam to a committed service excellence and continuous improvement as demonstrated by the ISO 9001: 2008 certification it has achieved.
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About Jainam Technologies: Jainam Technologies Pvt Ltd, the leading Information Systems Security and Service Provider (ISSP2) in Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ).
Pooja Kothari
Managing Director of StoreMore
Pooja is an economics graduate from St. Stephen’s College and post-graduate from Delhi School of Economics. Pooja has been a management consultant with AF Ferguson, a features writer with The Economics Times, and most recently, the editor of Inc. India magazine.
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About StoreMore: StoreMore is India’s first storage service for households and businesses.
Sunil Pillai
Managing Director and Founder of iValue InfoSolutions
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About iValue InfoSolutions: iValue is the youngest and fastest growing technology enabler in the Digital Asset Protection and Management space.
Amey Amre
Managing Director of Icatch Infosec Pvt.Ltd
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About Icatch Infosec Pvt.Ltd: Icatch is the perfect blend of cyber security experts, cutting edge product developers, forensic recovery experts & also desktop developers.
Niranjan Limbachiya
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director of KiwiQA Services
Founder at KiwiQA Services
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About KiwiQA Services: Make Your product quality top notch. Talk to us to see how
Sameer Sharma
Managing Director of Sisa Security
Sameer Sharma is the managing director at SISA SECURITY.
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About Sisa Security: Sisa Security is a security company that offers security solutions, minimizing financial, human, and brand damage.
Jayaraman Kesavardhanan
CEO & Managing Director of K7 Computing
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About K7 Computing: K7 Computing is an information security solutions company that protects individuals and organizations from IT threats like viruses,
Shilpi Sood
Founder & Managing Director of Xeliumtech Solutions
M.Tech with over 15 years in Engineering and Strategic capacities in Electronic Design Automation, Mobility and Software services. Built technology teams, curated development processes and drove execution of key enterprise solutions.
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About Xeliumtech Solutions: Xeliumtech Solutions is an IT Company, delivering Web Development, Mobile App Development & Software Development Services across the globe.
Ashok Kumar
Founder and Managing Director of RAH Infotech
Ashok Kumar is the Founder and Managing Director at RAH Infotech.
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About RAH Infotech: RAH Infotech is India’s leading value added distributor and solutions provider in the Network and Security domain.
Ranvir Singh
Managing Director of Digitary
Ranvir is responsible for business operations of Digitary in India. He brings more than 20 years of global work experience with leading organizations. Prior to this role, he was vice president at Pitney Bowes responsible for the Solutions Factory business unit for APAC, Middle East and Africa. He was responsible for commercialization of digital security solutions using digital signatures, encryption and QR codes.
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About Digitary: Digitary helps universities to issue digitally certified transcripts, degrees and other documents. Lower costs, great student experience
Zarir Karbhari
Founder & Managing Director of CopyNotify
Mr. Z. M. Karbhari is the Founder and Managing Director of CygNET Systems Pvt. Ltd. He also is the Chief Architect of CopyNotify! (formely USB CopyNotify!). He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering with a specialization elective in Computer Aided Design and also a Diploma in Computer Aided Engineering & Finite Elemental Analysis. ‘Data Protection Solutions should cater to the customer’s requirement and not the programmers requirement’ has always been the underlying principal in his decision making process right from inception of CygNET Systems Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Karbhari ensures he is directly involved in customer support, programme management as well all delivery / deployment implementations.
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About CopyNotify: CopyNotify is a Data Protection Software.
Zarir Karbhari
Founder & Managing Director of CopyNotify
Mr. Z. M. Karbhari is the Founder and Managing Director of CygNET Systems Pvt. Ltd. He also is the Chief Architect of CopyNotify! (formely USB CopyNotify!). He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering with a specialization elective in Computer Aided Design and also a Diploma in Computer Aided Engineering & Finite Elemental Analysis. ‘Data Protection Solutions should cater to the customer’s requirement and not the programmers requirement’ has always been the underlying principal in his decision making process right from inception of CygNET Systems Pvt. Ltd. Mr. Karbhari ensures he is directly involved in customer support, programme management as well all delivery / deployment implementations.
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About CopyNotify: CopyNotify is a Data Protection Software.