Rohini Kasturi is a distinguished C-Suite executive, board member, and trusted advisor to numerous private equity and venture capital firms. An alumnus of Harvard and Stanford, he has profoundly impacted the growth trajectories of various public, private, and venture-backed companies.
His pioneering efforts in the hybrid cloud market since early 2010, coupled with his expertise in scaling SaaS businesses in data, security, and more, have solidified his reputation as a respected leader and trusted advisor, and earned him numerous accolades and over 20 patents.
Kasturi was pivotal as EVP and Chief Product Officer at SolarWinds, a renowned IT management software company. He managed product development, engineering, product marketing, strategic alliances, portfolio management, and several other functions, transforming the company’s structure towards a Platform model and achieving remarkable year-over-year growth in key business metrics.
His professional journey includes a significant tenure at Pulse Secure as the Chief Product and Development Officer. Here, he doubled the company’s bookings by innovating the Zero-Trust Security Portfolio and played a critical role in its acquisition by Ivanti. Before this, as the VP/GM of Cloud and Data Management business unit at Veritas Technologies, he launched the first multi-cloud data and information management SaaS platform, demonstrating his forward-thinking approach. He is also the founder/CEO of Avni.io, a venture in cloud virtualization technology, which Veritas later acquired.
With more than two decades of technical achievement and business acumen in the B2B tech industry, Rohini Kasturi continues to foster leadership through empathy and accountability, and to drive innovation across SaaS, cloud, data analytics, and AI/Agentic technologies
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