Executive Leadership

Sanjay Beri

Sanjay brings more than two decades of innovation and success in the cloud, networking, and security industries. His unique business sense combined with his technical acumen, vision for the future of the industry, and unwavering focus on culture have contributed to his building a world class team and iconic company as founder and CEO of Netskope. Prior to Netskope, Sanjay was VP & GM of Juniper Networks secure access business unit, driving it to market leadership throughout his tenure. He is also the co-founder of one of the world’s first data center encryption companies, Ingrian Networks, and has held leadership positions across numerous other security and networking companies.

Ravi Ithal

Ravi brings more than a decade of technology innovation, leadership, and customer problem-solving to Netskope as founder and chief architect. Previously, Ravi was instrumental in designing and building the world’s first app- and user-aware next generation firewall at Palo Alto Networks. Ravi is an industry thought leader, author of 11 patents, and co-author of the industry’s first Cloud Security for Dummies book. Ravi has also held several technical leadership and management positions at Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems.

Krishna Narayanaswamy

A highly regarded and awarded researcher in security, behavioral anomaly detection, and deep packet inspection, Krishna brings two decades of technical and thought leadership as founder and chief scientist of Netskope. Krishna leads Netskope’s data science and user behavior research and is a prolific writer and speaker on a range of cloud security topics. He has authored 20 patents and co-authored the industry’s first Cloud Security for Dummies book. Prior to Netskope, Krishna held numerous leadership positions, including founding Top Layer Networks and serving as a distinguished engineer at Juniper Networks.

Steve Malmskog

A foremost expert on secure networking and one of the world’s leading high speed data plane architects, Steve brings two decades of technology leadership and innovation to Netskope as chief network architect. Steve leads the development of Netskope’s high-speed data plane and collaborates closely with customers to ensure that Netskope offers the most comprehensive deployment architectures in the market. Steve is a frequent presenter to the analyst community and co-authored the industry’s first Cloud Security for Dummies book. Previously, Steve held technical leadership and management positions at Payfone, Juniper Networks, Redline Networks, and Disney Internet Group, among other companies.

Amol Kabe

Amol leads the strategic planning, development and execution of Netskope product initiatives including Netskope Threat Protection and the expansion of its cloud security platform as vice president of product management.  Prior to joining Netskope, Amol ran Riverbed Technology’s famed $750 million Steelhead product portfolio as vice president of product management. Prior to that, he held a diverse set of responsibilities at Riverbed, from helping build the federal vertical to a $100 million business and creating the industry’s first SaaS acceleration product. Prior to Riverbed, Amol was on the founding team of pioneering data loss prevention start up Tablus, which was acquired by RSA in 2007.

Chris Andrews

A technology industry veteran with extensive experience taking innovative and market-leading companies from emergence and expansion to IPO and beyond, Chris brings more than 20 years of leadership as senior vice president of worldwide sales. Chris previously served as head of worldwide sales and field operations at network control provider Infoblox, and prior to that was the head of Americas sales and field operations for NetScreen, Juniper Networks, and Fortinet.

James Sung

With more than two decades of experience starting and growing companies through expansion phase to IPO and beyond, James has built the highest performing service and support organizations from the ground-up. He has led success, support, and professional services organizations in quickly expanding corporate environments that achieve the highest customer satisfaction and Net Promoter Score (NPS) ratings in their respective market segments.

Scott Hogrefe

Scott Hogrefe brings nearly two decades of experience to Netskope as vice president of marketing. Prior to Netskope, Scott served in senior marketing roles at Citrix and Zenprise and led the executive communications team at Brocade. Before entering the field of marketing, Scott spent several years in information technology for Johnson and Johnson where he worked alongside R&D and analytical scientists to design and roll out systems that captured and secured clinical trial and intellectual property data.

Jim Bushnell

Jim leads the legal function at Netskope, bringing more than 20 years of experience with technology companies. Prior to joining Netskope, Jim ran the legal function at Infoblox Inc. Jim was with Infoblox from its early stage, through its initial public offering to its acquisition. Prior to Infoblox, Jim was with the law firm Gunderson Dettmer, where he worked with venture-backed companies.

Jason Clark

Jason Clark is Chief Security Officer of Netskope, a leader in the cloud security industry. He joined Netskope in 2017 bringing decades of experience executing successful strategic security and transforming some of the most successful companies in the tech industry.

Clark, reporting to Netskope’s CEO and Founder Sanjay Beri, is responsible for corporate strategy, marketing, information technology, and cybersecurity. Previously, Clark was CSO for Optiv, where he helped the company grow from $500 million to $2 billion in under 3 years while running the transition from a value-added reseller to a cybersecurity systems integrator.

Prior to Optiv, Clark held a leadership role at Websense, where he was a driving force behind the company’s transformation into a provider of critical technology for chief information security officers (CISOs) to become Forcepoint/Raytheon. Previously, he had 10 plus years of experience as CISO to multiple major Fortune 500 companies and has held security leadership and technical roles at EverBank, BB&T and the U.S. Army.

Clark, an advocate for mentorship and dedicated to promoting the cybersecurity industry to the next generation, co-founded the Security Advisor Alliance in 2013, focused on ensuring students, teachers, and schools have the resources and mentorship necessary to foster the cybersecurity professionals of the future. This organization has 680 CISO Members now and is focused on engaging and inspiring 2+ Million kids globally.

Dave Rogers

A global technology leader with more than 20 years of experience leading global transformation strategies focused on information security, cloud, application development, and consulting, Dave Rogers leads channel sales for Netskope. Prior to joining Netskope, Dave led cloud security business development for top security reseller Optiv. Prior to Optiv, Dave spent nearly 15 years in leadership roles at EMC — including leading the North America partner organization — where he created and implemented a partner strategy that grew business by $50 million and was responsible for more than $4 billion in annual revenue.

Mario Puras

As Netskope’s vice president of sales engineering and solution architecture, Mario brings more than two decades of experience to his responsibility leading the worldwide presales and cloud security architect teams. Prior to joining Netskope, he served in multiple engineering, architecture, and sales leadership roles at Juniper Networks. Prior to that, Mario led the operation, readiness, and successful training of soldiers during both war and peace times for the US Armed Services.

Andre Stewart

Andre has more than 15 years of experience building and growing businesses, developing global sales strategies and leading successful international sales organizations. Prior to Netskope, he spent several years in the networking and security industries, including leadership positions at OpenDNS, A10 Networks, Corero, and Fortinet where he successfully recruited strong sales teams and channel partners. He also served as Managing Partner at Agora M&A, where he specialized in cross-border mergers and acquisitions in the data-communications reseller channel space.

Alok Kothari

An industry veteran with extensive experience in building world class offshore operations for startups as they grow from early stage to multi-billion dollar corporations, Alok brings more than 20 years of executive leadership building high performance engineering, customer success, and operations teams. Prior to Netskope, Alok built offshore organizations for companies including Juniper Networks, Aruba Networks, and Healthon WebMD from the ground-up.

Dave Daetz

Dave leads Corporate Development at Netskope, where he identifies and executes strategic opportunities and transactions. A Silicon Valley native, he brings more than 25 years of corporate development, business development, and product management experience serving in leadership positions at innovative technology companies spanning a diverse set of industries, customer segments, and company sizes and stages, including Apple, Symantec, CyberSource, Palm, HP, and Akamai. He has been the deal leader for dozens of strategic transactions, including M&A on both buy and sell sides, investments, and strategic partnerships. Dave began his career as a general management and strategy consultant at Ernst & Young and is a co-inventor on five issued US patents related to contextual data. He has degrees in engineering and international relations from Stanford, and also holds an MBA.

Bobby Shoker

Bobby brings two decades of deep finance, accounting, and operational management experience to Netskope as vice president of finance. Prior to Netskope, Bobby served in various leadership positions at Juniper Networks helping the business scale to facilitate growth. Prior to that, he was Corporate Controller at Peribit Networks and has served as an auditor with PwC. Bobby holds a CPA.

Sanjay Beri

Sanjay brings more than two decades of innovation and success in the cloud, networking, and security industries. His unique business sense combined with his technical acumen, vision for the future of the industry, and unwavering focus on culture have contributed to his building a world class team and iconic company as founder and CEO of Netskope. Prior to Netskope, Sanjay was VP & GM of Juniper Networks secure access business unit, driving it to market leadership throughout his tenure. He is also the co-founder of one of the world’s first data center encryption companies, Ingrian Networks, and has held leadership positions across numerous other security and networking companies.

Arif Janmohamed

Arif Janmohamed brings significant networking, cloud, and security expertise to the Netskope board. Prior to joining Lightspeed, Arif worked in the Corporate Business Development group at Cisco Systems. Earlier in his career, Arif worked in technical development and product management roles at WebTV (acquired by MSFT), Andes Networks (acquired by SUNW), and Sun Microsystems.

Eric Wolford

Eric Wolford brings his experience in executive leadership positions in multiple technology and service companies to the Netskope board. Most recently, Eric was President, Products Group at Riverbed Technology. During his 10+ years at Riverbed, Eric led a number of functions to help take the company public and deliver growth from 0 to $1B in revenue. Prior to Riverbed, Eric served in various executive roles at Accel funded start ups NetVmg (acquired by Internap), Fast Forward Networks (acquired by Inktomi) and at AT&T.  He currently serves on the boards of Riverbed Technology, BitTorrent, and Jut.

Tony Bates

Tony Bates brings a wealth of experience to Netskope from his previous executive roles as EVP of Microsoft, and CEO of GoPro and Skype. Preceding Skype, Tony was senior vice president and general manager of Cisco’s enterprise, commercial and small business group. Along with his role as Managing Partner and the CEO of Social Capital Growth, he is a member of the Board of Directors of GoPro, eBay and VMware.

Enrique Salem

Enrique Salem contributes more than 25 years of executive leadership, business strategy, and board experience to Netskope. Most recently, Enrique served as CEO of Symantec. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Brightmail and SVP of products and technology at Oblix and Ask Jeeves. In addition to Netskope, Enrique also serves as a board director for Atlassian, DocuSign, ForeScout, and FireEye, among others.