Pindrop CEO and leadership

Vijay Balasubramaniyan, PhD is Co-Founder & CEO of Pindrop. Vijay has previously held various engineering and research roles with Google, Siemens, IBM Research, and Intel. He holds patents in VoIP security and scalability and he frequently speaks on phone fraud threats at technical conferences, including RSA, Black Hat, FS-ISAC, CCS and ICDCS. Vijay earned a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. His PhD thesis was on telecommunications security.

Dr. Ahamad is the Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Codoxo. He is also Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Pindrop Security and a professor of computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Pindrop Security is a leader in phone fraud prevention with a total financing of $122 million from top-tier investors, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Webb Investment Network. Dr. Ahamad has held multiple leadership roles within academia over the years and is currently the Associate Director of Education and Outreach at the Georgia Tech Institute for Information Security & Privacy.

Mark Horne is the Chief Marketing Officer at Pindrop. He is a holistic marketing executive with a proven career record of driving strategic development and operational execution of transformational, customer-centric initiatives that impact and support organizations’ mission and growth objectives.

He has led high-performing organizations across the B2B cloud, software, and technology landscape. He has a comprehensive background in creating and spearheading strategies and programs that drive marketing planning strategy, brand awareness, customer demand, and revenue growth.

In the role of Pindrop’s Chief People Officer, Christine is be responsible for developing and executing on the people operations strategy of Pindrop in areas of talent management, performance management, organizational development, succession planning, and people operations. Her passion for employees and culture exudes into every aspect of the organization and her life.

Under Christine‘s leadership, her previous company, SalesLoft, was named THE #1 Best Place to Work in Atlanta for the past two years in a row. Christine instituted a paid parental leave program, launching a Women’s Integrated Network, diversity and inclusion initiatives, as well as enhancing the perk program. Christine has a diverse mix of experience which spans core functional areas including strategy, operations, and HR. Her background includes supporting business leaders in industries such as automotive, quick service restaurants, retail, education, real estate, and most recently software as a service. Christine has led diverse teams in terms of backgrounds, experiences, and size. Recently named in the Top 50 Women in SaaS, Christine has distinguished herself as a trusted advisor, a change champion, and a devoted employee advocate. With this new role, we will also be redefining the function previously known as Human Resource to People Operations, positioning this team as true strategic business partners.

Collin is the CTO of Pindrop. He has a background in both Voice and Security. Collin spent the last 8 years at AWS where he ran multiple cloud services at a large scale. During his time there, he founded Alexa for Business and took it from conception to launch in order to help customers voice-enable their conference rooms, lobbies, hospital rooms, hotel rooms, and even warehouses with Alexa. Collin strongly believes in the potential of voice computing and that we are just getting started. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in Computer Science, Collin started his career as a Software Engineer at Symantec. He eventually became the VP of Engineering for the Norton consumer security product line, where he worked with his team to come up with new ways to catch bad guys and protect customers against threats. Collin believes that the opportunity to work on both Voice and Security at Pindrop is exciting!

Ed Tang is the CFO of Pindrop. He specializes in helping rapidly growing, enterprise-focused companies reach scale by developing strategic, multi-year plans, along with implementing internal operating frameworks and the infrastructure necessary to execute them. Ed offers more than 25 years of experience in strategy, finance, operations and administration. Before joining Pindrop, Ed held leadership positions at category-winning companies like Salesforce and Box and was the CFO at Lever, a high-growth, industry-leading talent acquisition platform. While at Salesforce, over a 9 year period of hyper-growth, Ed played critical roles in leading corporate FP&A, Product and Technology planning and M&A integration functions. During his 5 year tenure at Box he led strategic finance, go-to-market operations and business analytics teams.

Vijay Balasubramaniyan, PhD is Co-Founder & CEO of Pindrop. Vijay has previously held various engineering and research roles with Google, Siemens, IBM Research, and Intel. He holds patents in VoIP security and scalability and he frequently speaks on phone fraud threats at technical conferences, including RSA, Black Hat, FS-ISAC, CCS and ICDCS. Vijay earned a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. His PhD thesis was on telecommunications security.

Dr. Ahamad is the Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Codoxo. He is also Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Pindrop Security and a professor of computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Pindrop Security is a leader in phone fraud prevention with a total financing of $122 million from top-tier investors, such as Andreessen Horowitz, Citi Ventures, Felicis Ventures, Redpoint Ventures, and Webb Investment Network. Dr. Ahamad has held multiple leadership roles within academia over the years and is currently the Associate Director of Education and Outreach at the Georgia Tech Institute for Information Security & Privacy.

Vijay Balasubramaniyan, PhD is Co-Founder & CEO of Pindrop. Vijay has previously held various engineering and research roles with Google, Siemens, IBM Research, and Intel. He holds patents in VoIP security and scalability and he frequently speaks on phone fraud threats at technical conferences, including RSA, Black Hat, FS-ISAC, CCS and ICDCS. Vijay earned a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. His PhD thesis was on telecommunications security.