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William (Bill) Welch (he/him) brings over 30 years of extensive experience in operationalizing and scaling product development and innovation, customer experience and expansion, talent acquisition and retention, and strategic alliances across the globe.

While at Talkdesk Bill served as the President and Chief Operating Officer where he led the Go To Market (GTM) organization. Prior to Talkdesk, Welch held executive leadership positions at Duo Security, Zscaler, and Symantec.

While president and COO of Duo Security, he helped secure a $2.35 billion cash transaction with Cisco. As COO of Zscaler, he led the organization toward a dramatic expansion of employees and revenue, culminating in an industry-leading IPO and a $17 billion market capitalization.

Loris (he/him) is the Chief Technology Officer and founder of Sysdig. He is also the creator of the popular open source troubleshooting tool, sysdig, and the open source container security tool Falco. Prior to founding Sysdig, Loris co-created Wireshark, the open source network analyzer, which today has 20+ million users. Loris holds a PhD in computer engineering from Politecnico di Torino and lives in Davis, California.

Karen Walker (she/her) assumed the role of Chief Financial Officer of Sysdig in 2021 to steer growth and financial strategy. With over 20 years of expertise spanning corporate finance, accounting, compliance, and investor relations, Karen’s leadership extends from pre-IPO to public companies. Her executive roles at PagerDuty, Uber Technologies, Pandora Media, CBS Interactive, and Virgin America underscore her proficiency. Karen excels at scaling finance teams in high-growth and global settings, notably at Uber Technologies. She spearheaded early IPO readiness for Uber and Virgin America, while also driving M&A activities, including Pandora Media’s sale to Sirius XM. Karen’s strategic acumen includes building and leading investor relations at PagerDuty.

Gary (he/him) leads global revenue strategy and execution at Sysdig. With over 30 years of experience in cybersecurity and SaaS, he has a proven track record of building and scaling high-performance teams, expanding global market presence, and delivering rapid and repeatable business outcomes that fuel top- and bottom-line success.

Before joining Sysdig, Gary oversaw global go-to-market strategy and revenue for Snyk – there, he led a global team of over 300 to achieve a $300M ARR milestone in his first year. Prior to that, he led the global go-to-market strategy and revenue for one of the largest Managed Security Service Providers in the world. Prior to being acquired into AT&T, he was VP & GM of Worldwide Sales at Zscaler, where he launched and scaled a new product and sales team globally and was part of the executive leadership team that took the company public. He has also held senior leadership roles at BMC Corporation, Blue Coat Systems, Sun Microsystems, and PTC, and his cybersecurity expertise spans endpoint, network, AI/ML, application, and cloud security, as well as building and leading global sales teams, strategic partnerships, and customer-focused growth initiatives.

Gary began his career as a United States Air Force Officer and is a veteran of Desert Storm. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Political Science from the United States Air Force Academy and a Master’s in Public Administration from Troy State University-European Region. Gary and his wife of over 35 years, have three daughters, and split their time between Incline Village, NV and Franklin, TN.

Shanta (she/her) is responsible for worldwide marketing at Sysdig. She has more than 20 years of experience across all marketing functions including integrated marketing, operations, global/field demand, customer success, and product marketing. Shanta is recognized as a GTM & demand generation strategist with a proven record to build scalable, high performing global programs focused on net new logo acquisition and customer expansion.

Before joining Sysdig, Shanta held senior marketing roles at enterprise security and software companies including Palo Alto Networks, Nimble Storage (acquired by HPE), and Blue Coat Systems (acquired by Symantec).

Shanta holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in marketing from California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo.

Sergej Epp (he/him) is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Sysdig, where he leads the company’s cybersecurity strategy, operations, and risk management initiatives. With a distinguished career spanning over 15 years, Sergej brings a wealth of experience in cyber defense, threat intelligence, and incident response across global organizations.

Before joining Sysdig, Sergej served as CISO at Palo Alto Networks, where he advised executives and government entities on cybersecurity strategy and oversaw cybersecurity operations, threat intelligence, and regional product strategy. Before that, he held senior roles at Deutsche Bank, where he built and led global cyber defense centers and teams specializing in red teaming, digital forensics, investigations, and cyber hygiene, protecting critical assets across the Americas, Europe, and APAC regions.

Named one of Capital Magazine’s “40 Under 40,” Sergej is a sought-after speaker at international conferences and an educator, training executives in cybersecurity through the Frankfurt School’s management board programs. He also serves in advisory roles for government bodies, including The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), venture capital firms, and high-tech startups.

Sergej holds degrees from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the University of Auckland, reflecting his strong academic foundation in technology and business.

Colleen (she/her) is the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) for Sysdig and is an executive with over 20 years in-house legal experience in licensing, IP, compliance, privacy, and corporate governance. She has spent the majority of her career advising tech companies of all sizes, particularly in the enterprise software and SaaS space. Colleen has deep experience in tech transactions —including open source and strategic licensing—with a special emphasis on scaling processes and teams to address deal velocity and rapid revenue growth.

In addition to the legal team, Colleen also leads the people engagement and experience teams, which are focused on recruiting top talent and fostering company culture and employee potential. As the CAO, Colleen bridges the gap between legal strategy and human resources management, ensuring alignment across the company’s objectives and values.

Before joining Sysdig, Colleen held senior legal positions at Magento Commerce (acquired by Adobe), Nimble Storage (IPO and subsequently acquired by HPE), and VMware (IPO). She successfully helped lead the mergers of both Nimble Storage and Magento Commerce and worked with both acquiring companies to advise and integrate the legal and HR processes post-acquisition.

Colleen holds a JD from Santa Clara University School of Law and is admitted to practice law in the State of California.

Crendal (she/her) leads business operations, customer business value, and go-to-market optimization at Sysdig. Throughout her career, she has driven operational excellence and developed customer-centric strategies that enhance satisfaction, foster loyalty, and deliver measurable value that contributes to long-term business growth.

Before joining Sysdig, Crendal held executive and leadership roles at Talkdesk, Exabeam, Zscaler, HP, NetApp, and Aricent, where she led initiatives to streamline processes, improve customer engagement, and scale business growth. Known for her strategic vision, Crendal’s leadership has consistently driven significant improvements in operational efficiency, customer engagement, and organizational performance.

Phil (he/him) is responsible for all corporate development, strategic alliances and global systems integrator (GSI) initiatives at Sysdig where he leads the team focused on building strategic partnerships across the security, cloud, and Kubernetes spaces. Phil has a passion for developing strategic alliances and ecosystems that deliver true value for both the partner and joint customers, and he has proven this in both startup and large public technology companies.

Prior to joining Sysdig, Phil led the corporate development & strategic alliances strategies for Hedvig, a pioneer in the software-defined and container storage markets, as well as, Kaminario, a leading early-stage startup in the all-flash storage market. Phil previously held executive leadership positions at Dell, as well as, Netapp, where he led the global strategic alliances strategy and team.

Phil holds a B.S. in Commerce & Business Administration from the University of Alabama Culverhouse School of Business and lives in the San Francisco area.

Shantanu Gattani (he/him) is the Vice President of Product Management at Sysdig, where he leads the vision and strategy behind the company’s cloud security portfolio. With more than 15 years of experience in the cybersecurity space, Shantanu has built a career on identifying critical market gaps and delivering products that solve real-world challenges at scale.

Prior to joining Sysdig, he held senior product leadership roles at Tenable, Proofpoint, and Symantec where he focused on cloud security, vulnerability management, and identity security. Shantanu brings a deep understanding of modern threat landscapes and a relentless drive to build solutions that help security teams stay ahead of risk.

Bharath Rangamannar (he/him) is the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Global Support Services at Sysdig, where he leads all engineering efforts across the CNAPP portfolio - including Posture, Vulnerability Management, and Attack Surface Management. Since joining Sysdig, Bharath has been instrumental in scaling the engineering organization, improving product resilience, and accelerating innovation across the CNAPP portfolio. Under his leadership, the team has focused on building a high-performing engineering culture, streamlining execution, and delivering scalable, secure cloud-native solutions to customers.

Bharath brings over 15 years of engineering experience, driving technical strategy and building platforms at scale. Prior to Sysdig, he was Director of Engineering at Lacework, where he played a key role in scaling the engineering team and platform during a period of hypergrowth, and was directly responsible for growing the company’s ARR from its early stages to over $100M. He was also Head of Engineering at Oso, where he helped shape the company’s technical direction and early product architecture.

He is deeply committed to fostering a culture of technical excellence, empowering teams, and delivering products that drive measurable customer value.

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Michele (Zuc) Zuccala (he/him) is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Sysdig, where he leads the global engineering organization spanning Open Source R&D, Runtime Security, Monitoring, AI, and core platform areas. He is responsible for driving technical execution and innovation across both commercial and open source initiatives.

Michele joined Sysdig to lead the Open Source team, where he was instrumental in scaling Falco, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project for cloud-native runtime security. Under his leadership, Falco graduated within the CNCF and became an industry standard for cloud and container threat detection. He later took over engineering for the entire runtime security business, unifying open source and commercial development under a single strategy before expanding his scope to the broader organization.

A strong advocate for innovation at scale, Michele has played a key role in integrating AI capabilities into Sysdig’s security platform, accelerating automation and intelligence across multiple product workflows. Prior to Sysdig, he served as CTO at ProntoPro and held leadership roles in several high-growth startups.

Based in Milan, he is also an active angel investor and board advisor to early-stage startups in Europe, with a focus on B2B SaaS products, AI, infrastructure, and cybersecurity.

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