Doug Merritt is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Aviatrix. Most recently, Doug served as Splunk President and CEO from 2015 to 2021. During his tenure as CEO, Doug led the transformation of Splunk from an on premise, perpetual license software company with the equivalent of $220 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), to a cloud-based SaaS company with ARR of $3.12 billion. In his first year at Splunk, Doug served as the Senior Vice President of Splunk’s go-to-market functions including sales, marketing, support, business development, partners, and other customer facing functions.

Prior to joining Splunk, Doug served as Senior Vice President of Products and Solutions Marketing at Cisco from 2012 to 2014. From 2011 to 2012, he served as CEO of Baynote, a behavioral personalization and marketing technology company. From 2005 to 2011, Doug served as President of Products and Technology as well as a number of other executive roles and as a member of the extended Executive Board at SAP A.G. Among other accomplishments, during his tenure at SAP, he and his team developed and launched the GRC set of solutions for SAP, growing from zero to over $800m in license sales over a five year period. From 2001 to 2004, he served as Group Vice President and General Manager of the $1b+ in revenue Human Capital Management Product Division at PeopleSoft Inc. (acquired by Oracle Corporation) where he led the functional teams focused on engineering, product management and marketing, support and GTM overlay. He also co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Icarian, Inc. (since acquired by Workstream Corp.), a cloud-based company, from 1996 to 2001.

Doug holds a B.S. from The University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

Anirban Sengupta is Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Engineering at Aviatrix, bringing in over three decades of engineering and management leadership experience. Most recently, Anirban served as Senior Director of Engineering at Google, driving Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) management and security services and Anthos engineering. During his tenure at Google, Anirban helped grow Anthos business from inception to more than $200M Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). He also launched GKE Enterprise offering an integrated container platform.

Prior to joining Google, Anirban served as Vice President of Engineering – NSBU at VMware. In this role, Anirban built out the NSX networking and security portfolio including NSX Edge, Distributed Firewall and NSX Intelligence products. Before VMware, Anirban held leadership roles at Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, Ascend Communications, among others.

Anirban holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India and M.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Santa Clara University, California.

Cyrous Jamé is the Chief Financial Officer of Aviatrix, bringing 15 years of Finance leadership experience with a deep understanding of technology. Prior to Aviatrix, Cyrous spent 10 years at Google, most recently, leading the Strategic Finance team of Google Play. Also at Google he has held finance leadership positions across Ads, Media, and Consumer Hardware divisions. Prior to Google, he spent several years working on Wall Street as a Software and Internet technology analyst and investor. He started his career as a software engineer developing complex enterprise software applications.

Cyrous holds Bachelor’s degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from University California Berkeley, and a Masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Varsha Vig is our Chief Human Resources Officer, focused on cultivating a culture of excellence and innovation at Aviatrix. Varsha brings over 12 years of experience in implementing and designing strategic HR programs which enhance employee experience and help drive business results. Prior to Aviatrix, Varsha was VP of Total Rewards, Talent & Diversity at Paxos, led the People function at Ready Responders, and held talent development leadership roles at other high-growth organizations such as Blink Health, Compass and Lyft.

Varsha started out her career in tax accounting focused on helping companies support their global talent through effective Global Mobility programs. She shifted her focus to building HR programs when she was at McDonald’s Corporation by leading their global mobility and broad-based compensation programs.

Varsha holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from University of Texas at Arlington and a Masters of Science in Taxation from George Washington University. She is also a CPA and Certified Compensation Professional.

Brian Kocsy is the Chief Customer Officer at Aviatrix, overseeing Aviatrix’s Processional Services, Support, and Embedded Engineering teams. Brian is responsible for growing the organization’s capabilities and customer-first culture, placing Aviatrix customers at the forefront of every business decision. Brian brings over two decades of experience in customer success and post sales, including developing and managing world-class customer success, services, support, and renewal organizations for SaaS and on-premises software companies.

Having held leadership positions across Engineering, Product Management, and Professional Services, Brian brings an uncommon perspective to ensure our customers succeed with Aviatrix. Putting yourself “in the shoes of the customer” and taking a problem/solution approach is the cornerstone of any successful business.

From being a founding team member to being acquired by Microsoft and leading key Bing Search teams, Brian has experienced every stage of company building. Most recently, Brian transformed and scaled HashiCorp’s customer success and architecture teams from $100M through IPO and built and scaled DataStax’s customer success and renewal teams from $80M to $140M.

Sandeep is an accomplished and modern marketing leader with over 25 years of experience in building high-performing teams. As Aviatrix’s Chief Marketing Officer, Sandeep is responsible for all global marketing initiatives for the company.

Prior to joining Aviatrix, Sandeep led worldwide marketing at Venafi for over three years, ultimately leading to an acquisition by CyberArk. At Kong, Sandeep set up and scaled the company’s marketing program from early stage to hyper growth. Prior to Kong, he led global platform marketing at MuleSoft through its successful IPO. Sandeep has also held leadership roles at Piston Cloud (led acquisition to Cisco), Brocade, Cisco Systems, Nortel and Lucent.

Sandeep holds an MBA degree with Honors from UC Berkeley, with a specialization in marketing and strategy, and an Engineering degree with Honors from Bombay University, with a specialization in Electronics and Telecommunications.

John is the Chief Information Security Officer at Aviatrix. Previously, John served as the Head of Security Architecture at Zoom, where he was responsible for overseeing the security posture of Zoom products and features, cloud environments, and sensitive IT applications. Over four years, his team developed one of the industry’s most mature security programs while effectively supporting Zoom’s dramatic business growth during the pandemic.

Before joining Zoom, John was a Principal Engineer at Cisco Systems, where he initiated the company’s product security program by defining and implementing Cisco’s secure development lifecycle—a process widely adopted by engineering organizations to develop secure and resilient products. In addition to his role in product security, he made significant contributions to the development of security products and network security management solutions, enabling large enterprises and service providers to enforce security policies across a diverse set of network devices.

He resides in San Diego with his wife and two sons. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, traveling, gardening, cooking, and sailing.

Chris McHenry is Senior Vice President of Product Management at Aviatrix, where he helps customers solve the new and unique challenges of networking within and between multiple clouds. He is an expert in multicloud networking, cloud cost management, zero trust networking, and microsegmentation.

Prior to Aviatrix, Chris spent more than 14 years at Cisco, where he led a global team of technical solutions architects responsible for Cisco’s cloud networking and security software portfolios.

Chris has unique experience driving innovation and disruption at large companies and enjoys being on the leading edge of major market transitions.

John Jendricks serves as the Chief Information Officer for Aviatrix. Formerly Chief of staff for VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger, Jendricks initially joined VMware six years ago as vice president, business development and operations, alongside the Nicira acquisition. He has over 35 years of technology experience in driving innovative technologies to become industry-leading products.

Prior to joining VMware, Jendricks was responsible for business & commercial operations as Vice President, business development and operations at Nicira, Inc. Jendricks also spent many years as CIO in the industry, leading technology implementation at Adobe, Wellfleet (acquired by Synoptics), Juniper Networks and StrataCom (acquired by Cisco).

Scott Leatherman is an award-winning full-stack marketing and operations executive with 25+ years of leadership and business management experience. Scott is currently the Chief of Staff for the oCEO at Aviatrix. Prior to joining Aviatrix, he was the CMO at Veritone, an AI platform company. Scott served as COO at SAP Labs US for 5 years. Scott was a Global Vice President of Marketing and was a founding member of the SAP HANA go-to-market team that disrupted the database market and built a billion-dollar business in less than three years. Also during Scott’s tenure at SAP he was part of the Strategic Account Sales Team and created new channel programs to reduce shelfware and support new solution adoption. Prior to SAP, Scott held senior marketing and business development roles at several startups.

Scott was recognized by the Silicon Valley Business Journal for his lifelong commitment to helping his local community with the 2018 Individual Community Champion Award. Both at work and in his personal life, Scott is focused on helping communities reduce food insecurities, supporting underserved children, funding cancer research and Native American educational programs.

David Hawk is VP Global Channels and Alliances for Aviatrix and is a results-driven route-to-market strategist with a strong track record of delivering revenue growth by evaluating solution landscapes and developing effective partner models to extend sales. Deep experience selecting and implementing strategies with CSPs, Technology Partners, GSIs and VARs.
Prior to Aviatrix, David held leadership positions at CloudKnox (acquired by Microsoft), Palo Alto Networks, MobileIron, SAP, Mercury (acquired by HP), and Oracle.

Jay Maples, VP Sales for North America is a seasoned software executive with over 25 years of experience in the industry, specializing in running sales teams focused on growing sales and renewals within the North American market. Prior to his role at Aviatrix, Jay held key leadership positions at Okta, Delphix, and CA Technologies, where he showcased a wealth of expertise in driving commercial success.

With a proven track record of impactful contributions to the industry, Jay has left a significant mark on the business landscape in North America. Jay holds a B.A. from the University of Houston.

Gino Mommers brings over 10 years of experience in sales within the Network and Security industry to his role at Aviatrix. As the leader of the EMEA team, Gino is responsible for driving business growth across the region, building strong customer relationships, and ensuring the delivery of tailored cloud networking solutions that meet the unique needs of enterprise clients. His deep understanding of complex networking and security solutions, combined with his leadership in the EMEA market, empowers organizations to thrive in the modern digital landscape.

George is a highly driven entrepreneur, with 29 year’s experience in the telecommunication and IT industry, with a specific focus on start-ups entering the Australian and APAC markets.

He has a thorough understanding of the telecommunications, enterprise and government industries, including deep expertise in the following areas:

• Security & Deep Observability
• Application Performance Management (APM) & Analytics
• Virtualisation, Cloud and XaaS
• Mobility, Wireless and Telecommunications
• Media distribution, Broadband, IPTV, VoIP

George brings to the table a wealth of experience in all aspects of establishing a business, including direct selling, marketing, events, distribution and channel partners selection. With a proven track record in leadership, sales and business development, defining strategy, building teams, driving performance, innovating and building a strong culture – all of which were instrumental in getting the likes of F5 Networks, AppDynamics and Avi Networks established in the region.