Shridar Subramanian

Shridar Subramanian

Shridar Subramanian has more than 25 years of experience in information technology. Shridar joined Arcserve through the merger with StorageCraft, where he served as CMO, oversaw marketing as well as product management, and was responsible for demand generation results.

Previously, Shridar was the CRO and VP of marketing and product management for Exablox, in charge of marketing and positioning. Before that, Shridar was the VP of Marketing at Virident Systems (acquired by Western Digital), a leading provider of PCIe SSDs, where he was responsible for product strategy, go-to-market as well as awareness and demand generation.

Prior to Virident, he was a Senior Director of Marketing at Monosphere Inc., a storage virtualization software company, where he was responsible for market and product definition for the company. Before joining Monosphere, Shridar held senior marketing positions at NetApp, where he was responsible for defining and driving solutions for major enterprise verticals.

His previous experience includes Software Engineer for Intergraph Corporation and Management Consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton. He received his M.S. in computer science from Penn State University and MBA from the University of Chicago.

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