Ron's had over 35 years of Sales experience at technology companies of all sizes. He's made complex sales, led teams staffed with both sellers and technologists, seen companies through acquisitions and growth, and he still manages to keep his finger on the pulse of his customers. Ron lives and works in Saratoga, California.
Dr. Shashanka is Chief Scientist and Co-Founder for Concentric. Before joining Concentric, Dr. Shashanka served as Managing Director for Charles Schwab's Data Science and Machine Learning team. He co-founded and was the Chief Scientist for PetaSecure before their purchase by Niara.
Karthik Krishnan is the Founder/CEO of Concentric AI.
He is a veteran of the security industry, having held leadership position for over 20 years at diverse cybersecurity companies such as Symantec, Juniper Networks, HPE, and PGP Corporation.
He holds a Bachelors in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management, where he was an F.C. Austin Scholar.
He has been featured in articles from leading publications such as eWeek, Dark Reading, Security Today, is a featured speaker at industry leading conferences such as RSAC, and is a member of the Forbes Tech Council.
Scott leads the Marketing efforts for Concentric AI. Before Concentric, he launched Lacework into the DevSecOps space, learned the ropes from some really smart AI guys and wrote a blog comparing security to blind men examining an elephant. He consulted for Shape Security, where he scared himself silly by engaging in dark web research without any professional guidance. At Juniper Networks, Scott ran the technology alliances program and herded an army of eager authentication vendors into something resembling a program. He led Juniper’s branch office security Marketing team, where he experienced the triumphs and tragedies of an OS transition first-hand. He’s worked for Motorola, Cisco and Extreme Networks as well as a few startups along the way. All told, he’s been in the technology industry for nearly 30 years.
