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.

Mark Tacy

VP of Sales

Prior to joining Druva, Mark was VP of Sales at Baynote, a leading provider of personalized customer experience solutions for multi-channel retailers. Mark built and managed the global direct sales team, growing revenue by 300% and helping the company achieve a market leadership position in their category.

Previously, Mark was VP of Sales & Sales Operations at Virsa Systems where he was instrumental in driving worldwide sales growth, resulting in an acquisition by SAP AG. Mark has also held senior sales positons at diCarta & Interwoven, as well as various sales and sales management positions at leading technology companies including NetManage, MSC Technologies, Merisel, and MacAmerica. Mark holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree (Management and Marketing) from the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon.

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.