Jaspreet Singh

Co-Founder and CEO

Jaspreet is a co-founder and CEO of Druva. An entrepreneur at heart, he bootstrapped the company while defining the product, sales and marketing strategies that have resulted in Druva’s early and impressive success. Prior to founding Druva, Jaspreet was a member of the storage foundation group at Veritas. He also held a number of engineering specific roles at Ensim Corporation. Jaspreet holds a Bachelors in Comp. Sc. (BTech) from IIT Guwahati.

Ramani Kothandaraman

Co-Founder and COO

Ramani Kothandaraman has more than 18 years of experience before starting Druva, of which he has 13 in management and delivery positions including Symantec, Veritas, IBM, LogicaCMG and TCS. Before moving to enterprises, Ramani was Assistant Director in the Cabinet Secretariat for 5 years and a Research Scientist with Department of Space for 2 years, (govt of India). Ramani holds a degree in Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University, Jabalpur and Masters from Cranfield University U.K.

Milind Borate

Co-Founder and CTO

Milind Borate has over 13 years experience in enterprise product development and delivery. Milind worked at Veritas Software as Technical Director for SAN-FS and served on board of Veritas patent filter committee. Milind has filed over 15 patent applications (4 allotted) and co-authored “Undocumented Windows NT” in 1998. He holds a BE (CS) degree from University of Poona and MTech (CS) degree from IIT, Bombay.

Lisa Busby

VP of Marketing

As Vice President of Marketing Lisa is responsible for Druva’s marketing and brand strategy, press relations, and all inbound and outbound marketing activities. Prior to joining Druva, Lisa was a co-founder of Crowded Ocean, a startup marketing firm focused exclusively on positioning, messaging, go-to-market strategy, and sales acceleration. Lisa also held management positions with George P. Johnson, an experiential marketing agency, where she led programs for Intel, VMware Cisco, Charles Schwab, and Oracle.

Lisa holds a BS in Business Marketing and Economics from the University of Alabama.

Chandar Venkataraman

Chief Product Officer

With a strong track record of new business creation for consumers, small businesses, and enterprises, Chandar brings strong product leadership to Druva. His responsibilities include product strategy, product management and product marketing. Previously, Chandar was a product management executive at Intuit, where he spearheaded the launch of several cloud-based offerings for small businesses. Prior to Intuit, Chandar was Vice President of Products at MindTouch and a Senior Director at Yahoo.

Chandar holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, an MS (Computer Science) from Arizona State University, and a BTech (Electrical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Paul O’Mahony

Director of Marketing

Paul has over 14 years of experience in the Enterprise Storage and Data Protection industries. In over 10 years at EMC Documentum, Paul held various roles from Consultant, Technical Marketing Manager, Sales Solutions Engineer and Manager of the EMC Documentum Developer Community. Moving to Atempo in 2006, Paul worked as a Senior Product Marketing Manager for both their server and desktop/laptop products, before moving to Printroom Inc in 2008 as their Director of Marketing, focusing on driving online revenue and membership.

Paul graduated with honors from University College Cork with a Bachelors in English and Archaeology and a H Dip in Computer Science.

Ash Ahuja

Director Sales – North America

Ash Ahuja has over twenty five years of sales experience with the past fourteen in the technology domain. An entrepreneur at heart, his true passion lies in helping companies grow. Alumnus of George Mason University, he has held senior sales and management positions with software start ups and services companies like Relativity Technologies and Edge Technologies. Previous to joining Druva he co-founded a BI consulting firm – The Irus Group, which grew to over $8 Million in revenues.

Borja Rosales

Director Sales – Europe

Borja Rosales has over 20 years of sales experience in the IT Storage and data protection domain. Graduate from the Basque Country University, he has held senior management positions in different European storage manufacturing and distribution companies like Fibrenetix Group and CYCMA. Before joining Druva he was founder and co-owner of a Remote Backup Services and Data Restoration company in Spain, Restoretek, that managed to achieve 100% restorability of data backed up by the customer.