Fortanix CEO and leadership

Anand has previously worked at Symantec and VMware, as a researcher and an engineer in the areas of security and networking. He has presented at Financial Cryptography and BlackHat conferences, and has filed over 25 patents. Anand holds a PhD from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Kanpur, both in Computer Science.

Anand Balasubrahmanyan is a proven strategic financial leader for high-growth businesses. Prior to joining Fortanix, he was Head of Finance & Business Operations for VeloCloud Networks, where he was a key member of the executive team navigating through the inevitable ups and downs of hyper-growth in the enterprise infrastructure space, and led VeloCloud's $50M Series D fundraise and subsequent strategic sale to VMware. Prior to VMware/VeloCloud, Anand had a 20-year career as an investment banker and private equity investor at DLJ, Morgan Stanley and The Carlyle Group. Anand holds Bachelors degrees from Wharton and the Engineering School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Masters from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

Faiyaz Shahpurwala most recently led the charter for IBM Cloud Platform as VP/GM delivering a portfolio of enterprise cloud offerings. Prior to that he was SVP at Cisco Sytems, responsible for building and running their Cloud Infrastructure and Managed Services Organization. He also spent 4 years in India leading Cisco’s globalization efforts in Bangalore and responsible for the Advanced Services and Industry solutions business for Asia Pac and Emerging Markets. In. 2001 he was part of a storage Networking Startup Andiamo Systems that was acquired by Cisco. He was the inventor and holds a patent for NatKit, a remote monitoring tool. He has held an advisory role for many startups(View, Platform 9, Truu.ai, Minjar)

Andy has sixteen years of experience designing and building complex computer systems. He is an expert in the design of secure systems and has presented at the prestigious Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems conference. Prior to joining Fortanix, Andy most recently worked at Square, where he designed and implemented hardware and firmware security measures for Square's innovative payment devices. Before that, Andy worked at Cryptography Research, Inc., and NVIDIA, on numerous silicon design projects.

Andy has a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford.

Anand has previously worked at Symantec and VMware, as a researcher and an engineer in the areas of security and networking. He has presented at Financial Cryptography and BlackHat conferences, and has filed over 25 patents. Anand holds a PhD from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Kanpur, both in Computer Science.