About Aisera

Muddu Sudhakar is a successful Entrepreneur, Executive and Investor. Muddu has deep product, technology and GTM experience plus knowledge on enterprise markets including Cloud, SaaS, AI/Machine learning, IoT, Cyber Security, Big Data, Storage and chip/Semiconductors. Muddu brings strong operating experience with startups as CEO (Caspida, Cetas, Kazeon, Sanera, Rio Design) and in public companies such as SVP & GM role at ServiceNow, Splunk, VMware, and EMC. Sudhakar holds a Ph.D. and MS in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BS in Electronics & Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is widely published in industry journals and conference proceedings and owns more than 40 patents.

Dr. Christos Tryfonas is a successful serial entrepreneur and technologist in Silicon Valley. Currently, he is the Chief Architect at Aisera, focusing on technology, engineering, and strategy. Most recently, Dr. Tryfonas was the Founder and CTO of Caspida, a next-generation, predictive cybersecurity enterprise software company that detects and prevents hidden threats. Following Caspida’s acquisition by Splunk, Dr. Tryfonas served as Head of Engineering for Splunk Behavioral Analytics. Before that, he co-founded Cetas, a cloud analytics and big data company acquired by VMware. He was also a founder of Kazeon Systems, which was acquired by EMC Corp. Dr. Tryfonas holds multiple issued and pending patents with widely published work throughout both academia and industry.

Puru Amradkar brings over 20 years of extensive experience in building scalable, distributed cloud services. At Aisera, Puru leads the product and sales engineering teams with the belief that an alliance between products and technical sales leads to great products and synergy. He has held leadership positions at Microsoft, where he was involved in the buildout of OneDrive, Outlook.com and Microsoft Azure. Most recently he led Product Management at ServiceNow for their ITOM business unit. Puru holds over 45 USPTO patents and has participated in multiple industry meetups as a guest speaker. He has a passion for music and enjoys classical Indian dance from folk to modern free form expression.

A specialist in strategic planning and value creation for rapidly scaling businesses, Abhi Maheshwari joined Aisera as CFO in September 2021. His leadership role encompasses helming long-term financial analysis and planning, global expansion, treasury and tax strategy, partnerships, operations, and capital allocation. Prior to Aisera, he served as CAO at CrowdStrike, where he guided the transition to a public company, international partnerships, M&A, and business acceleration. Previously, as a financial leader at Logitech, he led new business creation, M&A integration, and centralizing of tax strategy and operations. His skills encompass building strong teams for global expansion and IPO readiness, guiding regulatory compliance, and implementing revenue stimulus. Abhi is a graduate of the Executive Residency Program at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He holds a Bachelors’s Degree in Commerce and CPA from India and California.

Antonio Nucci, Ph.D., serves Aisera as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), working with the leadership team to set Aisera’s strategic technology direction and shape product and market strategy. Prior to Aisera, Antonio was CTO at Cisco’s Customer Experience (CX) Group, helping develop ML and AI capabilities critical to Cisco’s digital transformation. Prior to that, Antonio served as VP and Chief Data Scientist at Symantec Corporation, and Senior Director of Advanced Technologies and AI at Boeing. Antonio has been honored as Infosecurity CTO of the Year, among many distinctions. He holds 83 USPTO patents and has authored over 100 technical papers and co-authored six technology books. He earned his Bachelors, Masters, and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Politecnico di Torino (Italy).

Jyoti Kukreja brings over 15 years of experience across roles in Business Development, Sales, Operations, and Engineering. She has a unique blend of expertise across technical, strategic and creative domains. Prior to Aisera, Jyoti held leadership roles at Rubrik, ThoughtSpot, Nutanix and VMware, including a stint as an Entrepreneur. In her current role at Aisera, Jyoti works cross-functionally with the C-Suite, playing a strong catalyst in the organization's change management initiatives, in addition to leading Strategic Alliances and Business Development for the company.

Utkarsh Contractor serves as the VP of AI at Aisera, where he leads data science and ML engineering teams working on critical machine learning and artificial intelligence applications in the fields of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and classical ML. He pursued graduate studies at Stanford University where his research was focussed in the fields of NLP and reinforcement learning. Utkarsh brings over 15 years of industry experience in information retrieval and machine learning. He has held leadership roles at companies such as LinkedIn and AT&T Labs, and he holds several patents in the field of AI and ML. Outside of work Utkarsh loves to spend his time playing football and going for long runs.

Karthik leads Product Management and Marketing teams at Aisera. His areas of focus include Product Development, Marketing, Strategy, Demand Generation and Growth. Prior to Aisera, he led AI & ML within the Customer Experience group at SAP Palo Alto and launched multiple 0 → 1 products to revenue working across US, Europe and India. Karthik earned his MBA from the Haas School of Business, Berkeley, his undergrad in Computer Science from Bangalore, India and holds multiple patents in AI, Integration & Business Process Management. Outside of work - he enjoys travelling, reading & sports. He is also a volunteer at BUILD, a program that imparts entrepreneurship learning to underrepresented high school students.