Leadership

Bipul Sinha

CEO, Chairman and Co-Founder

Bipul Sinha is an entrepreneur, engineer and venture capitalist. He is the CEO, Chairman and Co-founder of Rubrik, Inc. and a Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

Previously, Bipul was a Partner at Lightspeed where he focused on software, mobile, and Internet sectors. His investments included Nutanix, Pulse News, Bromium, and PernixData. Before Lightspeed, Bipul worked at Blumberg Capital, where he was the founding investor/board member of Nutanix and Hootsuite. Bipul also held engineering positions at Oracle Corporation, American Megatrends and IBM.

Bipul received his Bachelor in Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where he was bestowed with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Bipul completed his MBA in Finance from The Wharton School where he was a Palmer Scholar. Bipul holds several patents in distributed computing.

Arvind Nithrakashyap

Co-Founder and CTO

Arvind Nithrakashyap has decades of experience building storage, databases and distributed systems. He led the real-time ad infrastructure team at Rocketfuel and started his career at Oracle where he co-founded the Exadata storage platform.

Kiran Choudary

Chief Financial Officer

Kiran leads the finance, IT, product operations, and workplace teams at Rubrik. Most recently, Kiran served as VP of Finance & Strategy at Atlassian and contributed to the company’s successful IPO in 2015. Prior to Atlassian, Kiran served as VP at Goldman Sachs, advising clients in the technology industry on capital raising and M&A. Earlier in his career, Kiran led software development teams at Oracle. Kiran holds an MBA from Wharton and engineering degrees from MIT and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.

Peter McGoff

Chief Legal Officer

Pete brings 20+ years of legal experience and has served as the top attorney at a number of public and private enterprise focused technology companies. Prior to Rubrik, Pete served as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Box and contributed to the company’s successful IPO in 2015. Prior to Box, he served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Informatica Corporation, then a public enterprise software company. Pete holds a B.S. in Finance from California State University, Sacramento, a J.D. from the University of the Pacific, and an LL.M. in Comparative Intellectual Property Law from the London School of Economics.

Giri Iyer

Chief Customer Officer

Giri Iyer brings more than two decades of customer services experience to Rubrik. He was most recently the Vice President of Customer Support at Ruckus Wireless where he scaled out the organization to support over 70,000 customers globally. Prior to that, he was Vice President of Customer Advocacy at Infoblox.

Brian McCarthy

Chief Revenue Officer

Brian McCarthy serves as Rubrik’s Chief Revenue Officer, where he leads the global go-to-market sales strategy. With more than 20 years of experience in the enterprise technology industry, McCarthy has held leadership roles at both public and private hyper-growth companies. He most recently served as CRO at ThoughtSpot, where he led the go-to-market function and the company’s SaaS transformation.

Anneka Gupta

Chief Product Officer

Anneka brings more than a decade of product and SaaS expertise with a track record of driving revenue growth, navigating expansions to new markets, and overseeing diversity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives. She joins Rubrik from LiveRamp where she was the President and Head of Product and Platforms leading product development and go-to-market operations and strategy. Anneka also sits on the board of directors for Tinuiti.

Michael Mestrovich

Chief Information Security Officer

Michael Mestrovich joins Rubrik with more than two decades of experience in public and private sector IT and security leadership, most recently serving as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). At the CIA, Mestrovich led the Agency’s cyber defense operations, developing and implementing cyber security regulations and standards, and directed the evaluation and engineering of cyber technologies. Before Mestrovich’s career in the public sector, he was a systems engineer at Cisco Systems and served in the U.S. Air Force.

Mike Tornincasa

Chief Business Officer

Mike Tornincasa has 20 years of experience in business development and technology sales. As Chief Business Officer, he is focused on Rubrik's growth and go-to-market strategy. An early employee and first VP of Sales for Rubrik, Mike successfully led the company’s go-to-market innovation and was a key leader in Rubrik's data security evolution. Prior to joining Rubrik, Mike held sales roles at companies including EMC and Medallia, Inc.

Andres Botero

Chief Marketing Officer

Andres Botero is an accomplished marketer and proven enterprise SaaS leader, bringing more than 20 years of experience at cloud enterprise software companies. He most recently served as the Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer at BlackLine, a Nasdaq-listed SaaS modern accounting leader, where he was responsible for driving BlackLine’s strategy and global marketing. During his tenure, BlackLine more than doubled its ARR. Prior to BlackLine, Andres was the CMO of CallidusCloud (acquired by SAP) and Aria Systems. Previously, Botero held leadership roles at SAP and Siebel Systems (acquired by Oracle). He also sits on the Board of Advisors at Sendoso.

Bipul Sinha

CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder

CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder Bipul Sinha brings 18+ years of experience in building billion-dollar products and companies from the ground up. Previously, he was a partner at Lightspeed, where he invested in Nutanix (founding investor and board member), PernixData, and Numerify.

Arvind Nithrakashyap

Co-Founder and CTO

Arvind Nithrakashyap has over 16 years of experience building storage, databases and distributed systems. He led the real-time ad infrastructure team at Rocketfuel and started his career at Oracle where he co-founded the Exadata storage platform.

John W. Thompson

Lead Independent Board Director

John W. Thompson is the Lead Independent Director and Former Chairman of the Board at Microsoft. He is a Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and formerly served as Symantec CEO, CEO of Virtual Instruments, and was an executive at IBM.

Asheem Chandna

Partner, Greylock Partners

Asheem Chandna focuses on enterprise investments and has been listed in the Forbes Midas List as a top investor. He has helped build multiple market-leading businesses, including AppDynamics, Check Point Software, Imperva, and Palo Alto Networks.

Enrique Salem

Partner, BainCapital

Enrique joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2014, where he focuses on infrastructure software and services with a specialization in cybersecurity.

Mark McLaughlin

Former Chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks

Mark McLaughlin most recently served as the Chairman and CEO of Palo Alto Networks. Previously, he was President and CEO of VeriSign, and has held executive leadership positions at Signio and Gemplus. For more than a decade, McLaughlin has served as a member of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). He currently serves as Chairman of the board of directors for Qualcomm Inc. and is a board member of Snorkel AI. McLaughlin is a West Point graduate and served as an attack helicopter pilot in the US Army.

Ravi Mhatre

Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Ravi Mhatre is a founding partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and plays a global leadership role at the firm today. He has over 25 years of venture capital experience.

Scott Herren

EVP and Chief Financial Officer, Cisco

Scott Herren is the EVP and Chief Financial Officer at Cisco leading the financial strategy, global finance organization, procurement, and mergers and acquisitions and integrations for the company. Herren was previously CFO at Autodesk and held senior strategy and financial positions at Citrix Systems, FedEx, and IBM. Herren is the chair of the Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) Advisory Board and a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Board at Georgia Tech. 

Yvonne Wassenaar

Former CEO of Puppet

Yvonne Wassenaar previously served as the CEO of Puppet. She's held leadership positions at VMware, Accenture, Airware, and New Relic. Wassenaar serves on the Board of Directors for Forrester, Anaplan, JFrog, Arista Networks, and Harvey Mudd College.