As President and CEO, Sumedh leads the company’s vision, strategic direction and implementation. He joined Qualys in 2003 in engineering and grew within the company, taking various leadership roles focused on helping Qualys deliver on its platform vision. From 2014 to 2021, he served as Qualys’ Chief Product Officer, where he oversaw all things product, including engineering, development, product management, cloud operations, DevOps, and customer support. A product fanatic and engineer at heart, he is a driving force behind expanding the platform from Vulnerability Management into broader areas of security and compliance, helping customers consolidate their security stack. This includes the rollout of the game-changing VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) that continually detects and prevents risk to their systems, Multi-Vector EDR, which focuses on protecting endpoints as well as Container Security, Compliance and Web Application Security solutions. Sumedh was also instrumental in the build-up of multiple Qualys sites resulting in a global 24x7 follow-the-sun product team.

Sumedh is a long-time proponent of SaaS and cloud computing. He previously worked at Intacct, a cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system. Sumedh has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from the University of Pune.

As Senior Vice President of Product Management, Shailesh leads the product management team and drives the Qualys product vision helping customers assess and improve their IT, security and compliance posture. Since joining Qualys in 2012, he has worked in various security and compliance roles driving innovative solutions, including remote endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, and SaaS security. In addition, Shailesh headed engineering, research and product management for Qualys Policy Compliance and File Integrity Monitoring, where he helped customers go beyond compliance to drive their IT GRC objectives. Before Qualys, he focused on security research for Symantec ESM and Compliance solutions. Shailesh holds a master’s in computer applications (MCA) from the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology and has various security certifications including CISA, CRISC, CISM. He is also a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Parag Bajaria is vice president of cloud and container security solutions at Qualys, focused on building and evangelizing cloud and container products and solutions. He has spent the last decade working in cloud security building products in various domains including data security, cloud posture management, identity security, and workload security. Previously, Parag was head of Product Management at CloudKnox, a cloud infrastructure entitlements management (CIEM) company. Parag has held product leadership roles at HyTrust, Yahoo, and Juniper Networks. Parag has an MBA from Cornell University and a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Maine.

Mehul Revankar is a cybersecurity professional with more than 15 years of experience in Vulnerability Management, Policy Compliance and Security Operations. He leads Product Management and Vulnerability Research at Qualys for VMDR. Before joining Qualys, Mehul led the development of vulnerability and patch management products at SaltStack, and prior to that he led multiple research teams at Tenable. Mehul has a bachelor’s degree in electronics from the University of Mumbai and a master’s degree in computer engineering from George Mason University.

Elie is a dynamic, versatile and accomplished security risk leader with over 20 years of designing, building, and strengthening security programs at private and publicly traded organizations in highly regulated industries. He has a long track record of creating security programs from the ground up and is both a technical expert as well as an attorney licensed to practice in State and Federal Courts in Massachusetts. He is an infrastructure and application security subject matter expert with extensive hands-on experience architecting and designing technical and administrative security controls such as SIEM, email security gateways, data loss prevention, database audit monitoring, privileged access management, and data classification.

As Chief Product Officer (CPO), Nagi focuses on delivering industry-leading innovations and products that drive growth. He is responsible for all aspects of the product including engineering, development, operations, product strategy and management, and customer support.

Nagi’s career includes more than 30 years of experience building and scaling enterprise B2B products that serve organizations of all sizes in multiple industries. His focus on innovation and customers and his long-term strategic vision helped him create high growth in companies such as Icertis, Apttus (Conga), CA Technologies, and RealPage, among others. Prior to joining Qualys, Nagi was CPO at Solutionreach, a leader in patient relationship management helping transform patient-provider communication. He received a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Bangalore University.

Alex Mandernack is the Director, Product Management, Cloud Security Solutions at Qualys, focusing on Cloud and Container Security from an engineering and architecture perspective. Alex is a liaison between customers and product teams and provides a hands-on, real-world perspective. Before joining Qualys in 2018, Alex held leadership positions in various organizations from startups to MSPs and publicly traded companies

Terry hails from Santa Cruz California originally and began his career in Information Technology at Mighty Net, Inc. (founding company for Creditreport.com) as CTO – Director of Systems and Security while attending California State University Northridge. There he was responsible for all Infrastructure, networking, and security. In 2007, Terry took a Director of IT position at Protocol and left the company as Director of US IT Operations when they were acquired by Expert Global Solutions.

At EGS he ventured back into Information Security role full-time and worked alongside his CISO as the two man team responsible for achieving PCI compliance across the Enterprise. In 2015 he transitioned to American Express Global Business Travel as an Information Security Manager. Today his responsibilities include Cyber Security Metrics, Managing the Vulnerability management platforms including Qualys and several other Information Security platforms at GBT.