About Aisera

A specialist in strategic planning and value creation for rapidly scaling businesses, Abhi Maheshwari joined Aisera as CFO in September 2021. Abhi has been appointed CEO (Interim) in July 2024 and brings over 20 years of experience supporting the success of global enterprise and SaaS companies. 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. His leadership role encompasses long-term financial analysis and planning, global expansion, treasury and tax strategy, partnerships, operations, and capital allocation. 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 Bachelor's Degree in Commerce and CPA from India and California.

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.

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).

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.

Jared Lucas joined Aisera as Chief People Officer with twenty years of global human resources experience. Jared has deep expertise in talent acquisition, compensation & benefits and performance management. Jared has significant experience scaling cultures and organizations during periods of hyper-growth. Most recently Jared was the Vice President of People at Cresta, a leading player in bringing AI co-pilot technology to the contact center industry. Prior to Cresta, Jared was the Chief People Officer at MobileIron joining upon their successful IPO, up through their acquisition by Ivanti. Additionally, Jared was a Director of Human Resources at LinkedIn through its IPO and helped the company scale as the employee base grew by several thousand during his tenure. Earlier in his career he was a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Jared received his Master’s Degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University and his Bachelor’s Degree from Brigham Young University.

At Aisera, Matt is the Chief Revenue Officer. In this role, he is responsible for driving customer successful outcomes while managing growth for the worldwide sales and partner organizations as well as architecting the go-to-market strategy for the company. Matt has consistently built and led multiple high performing sales teams across various countries, distribution channels, and sizes of companies in AI, Data, Cybersecurity, and DevOps from pre-revenue, early stage to successful exits. Most recently, Matt served in a similar role as CRO for Labelbox (AI) and before that cybersecurity firm Devo. During his leadership there, he was instrumental in developing the sales and success teams: building it up from its nascent stages, and later guiding it through a variety of growth phases. Prior to Devo, he was responsible for sales, customer success, business development, and marketing at Basis Technologies, a UK-based company. Thomas earned a Bachelor’s degree with three majors in Business Administration, Economics, and Accounting Graceland University.

As the VP of Engineering at Aisera, Ravi Karra runs all technology including Development, Model Productization, Quality Engineering and Agile functions. Ravi brings to this role more than 20 years of management experience, building and scaling sustainable teams globally across many domains. Prior to Aisera, Ravi was VP/GM leading the platform BU at Here Technologies, helping grow the business with the automotive industry with company presence in Silicon Valley, Europe, and India. Previously Ravi was responsible for the entire Card/Load/SMB Acquisitions portfolio at American Express helping grow to 32 markets and establishing engineering teams in India. Earlier Ravi led the Predix Platform and Application teams at GE Digital taking many products from concept to commercial. Ravi is also an alum of Autodesk and holds a MS in Engineering from Iowa State University and BS from Osmania University.

As the Chief Customer Officer at Aisera, Sachin Soni runs all post Sales functions including Onboarding, PS, Support, Success and User Enablement. Sachin brings to this role more than 22 years of management, customer advocacy and services leadership with expertise in AI and security. Prior to Aisera, Sachin led all Post Sales functions at Cresta.ai, another leader in the AI space. He was the first person in Customer Success at Pindrop, a security AI company, and helped grow the Company to be the leader in fraud and authentication on the voice channel. Prior to that he was part of the Bevocal team that was acquired by Nuance which was later acquired by Microsoft. Sachin really believes in building a strong team and culture and is a Statistics major from the University of Mumbai.

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.