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Gagan Gulati

General Manager, Data Services, NetApp | Board Advisor | Investor

Greater Seattle Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,500,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Work Experience

2022

  • GM, Data Services

    2024

    As General Manager for Data Services, I help drive the overall business with responsibilities for PM, engineering, data science, solutions architects and more. We are helping NetApp lead the charge on Cyber resilience and AI. Our team helps customers protect and govern their data wherever it lives on NetApp storage - on-premises or in the cloud

  • VP of Data Services

    2022 - 2024

    VP of Product for Data Services. The Data Services team at NetApp helps customers protect and govern their data wherever it lives. We are responsible for driving preference for our primary storage platforms through a consolidated set of data protection and governance offerings

  • Advisor

    2022

  • Angel Investor, Advisor

    2016

    Invest in startups in the local Seattle area. Advise fast-growing startups on strategy, scale, and product management. Investor and advisor to 30+ startups including Ad Auris, Tribute, Vega Cloud, Humanly, PDM, Joylux, Media Partners, Matcherino, Metricstory, Keepe, Teal, Solace and more. Board Advisor for StepSecurity.

2020 - 2022

  • Chief Product Officer, GM

    2020 - 2022

    Behavox uses NLP, Machine Learning and AI to protect our customers from illegal, immoral and malicious insiders. As Chief Product Officer at Behavox, I: - built Product Management function in earnest at Behavox growing from 0 to hiring and building out multiple teams (led by VPs of PM) across multiple geographies, and we continue to grow. - Hired and led senior Product Engineering leaders and grew the team across geographies - Led Product vision, strategy, roadmap and execution for all product initiatives across from grounds up working closely with the rest of EXCO team - driving business growth (ARR, CSAT and NRR). - Led multiple 0-1 products including Conduct, Insider Crime and Data Labs - Led Behavox entry into new industry verticals working with Sales and Marketing teams. - Helped expand top customer accounts with product-led growth.

2005 - 2020

  • Partner Director, Data Protection and Governance

    2016 - 2020

    Led Product (across locations in the US and Israel) for an internet-scale Azure-based SaaS product focused on enterprise security and compliance. The product generates $2B+ in annual recurring revenue and is part of Microsoft's industry-leading M365 Security and Compliance suite and Azure Purview. It is also the Information Protection platform within Microsoft's Exchange Online (ExO), Office Client products (Word/Excel/PowerPoint), Microsoft Information Protection (MIP), and several external industry-leading Information Generation, Management and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions. The platform currently has 85M+ monthly active users across 485K+ customers and is growing rapidly. Helped lead Secure Islands acquisition and merger to build the new the Azure Information Protection offering from grounds up.

  • Principal PM Manager , Azure RMS

    2012 - 2016

    Product leader and founding member of Azure SaaS based, Rights Management Services (RMS). Azure RMS helps organizations protect their most valuable assets from data leakage via encryption, identity management and authentication, authorization and access controls.

  • Senior Program Manager, Amalga Health care

    2011 - 2012

    PM Owner of all management aspects of Amalga platform deployment and management, a private cloud based enterprise software offering in Health care space.

  • Senior Engineering Manager, Windows division

    2005 - 2010

    Drove key advancements in the Enterprise deployment space during Windows 7, Windows Vista and some part of Windows 8.

2004 - 2005

  • Senior Software Engineer, Weblogic Server

    2004 - 2005

    Senior member of the team that owned the validation of BEA WebLogic plug-in module, BEA’s solution to communicate with applications deployment on Apache HTTP server, Netscape Enterprise server and IIS.

2002 - 2004

  • Application Engineer, Oracle 11i Application Suite

    2002 - 2004

    Developed new Oracle Fulfillment features, instrumental in 11.5.9 release of Fulfillment server’s mail merge feature.

DRDO

2001 - 2002

  • Scientist

    2001 - 2002

    Part of SQA group performing audits for on-going projects across labs. Mentored a team of 5 interns to develop a GUI for enforcing DRDO’s coding standards.

2000 - 2000

  • Researcher

    2000 - 2000

  • Software Engineer

    1999 - 1999