Management

Sudhakar Ramakrishna has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since January 2021. He is a global technology leader with nearly 25 years of experience across cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. He most recently served as the CEO of Pulse Secure®, a leading provider of secure and zero trust access solutions for Hybrid IT environments, where he was responsible for all aspects of business strategy and execution. Prior to Pulse Secure, Mr. Ramakrishna served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Enterprise and Service Provider Division at Citrix®, where he had responsibility for Citrix’s portfolio of virtualization, cloud networking, mobile platforms and cloud services solutions. Mr. Ramakrishna also has held senior leadership roles at Polycom, Inc., Motorola, Inc., 3Com Corporation and U.S. Robotics. Mr. Ramakrishna is an experienced public and private company board member. Mr. Ramakrishna is a partner at Benhamou Global Ventures, a leading venture capital firm investing in emerging startups in the fields of security, analytics and applications. Mr. Ramakrishna earned a master’s degree in computer science from Kansas State University and a master’s of management degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

J. Barton Kalsu has served as our Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since April 2016. He served as our Executive Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer from October 2013 to April 2016 and served as our Chief Accountant and Senior Vice President, Finance, from November 2011 to October 2013. Mr. Kalsu joined the Company as Chief Accountant and Vice President, Finance in August 2007. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Kalsu worked for JPMorgan Chase Bank as Vice President, Commercial Banking, from June 2005 until August 2007. From April 2002 until June 2005, Mr. Kalsu worked for Red Hat, Inc. as Senior Director of Finance. Mr. Kalsu serves on the board of directors of EP Energy Corporation (NYSE: EPE). Mr. Kalsu previously served on the board of directors of Athlon Energy Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHL) prior to its acquisition by Encana Corporation. He holds a B.S. in Accounting from Oklahoma State University.

Jason W. Bliss has served as our Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary since April 2021. Mr. Bliss previously served as our Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, General Counsel and Secretary from January 2020 to April 2021, Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from June 2016 to January 2020, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from April 2016 to June 2016, Senior Vice President, Legal Operations and Corporate Development from October 2013 to April 2016, Vice President, Corporate Development from June 2012 to October 2013 and Assistant General Counsel from March 2008 to June 2012. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Bliss was an associate at DLA Piper LLP (US) specializing in mergers and acquisitions, capital market transactions and technology licensing. Prior to DLA Piper, Mr. Bliss was a technology consultant with Accenture. Mr. Bliss earned a J.D. and an M.B.A. from Duke University and a B.S. in Engineering Science from the University of Virginia.

Rohini Kasturi has served as our Executive Vice President, Chief Product Officer since March 2021, and is responsible for the product organization, inclusive of engineering, product management, and product marketing. Mr. Kasturi leads the development, launch, and integration of new and enhanced SolarWinds products, accelerating the company’s integrated journey into cloud and SaaS in support of hybrid deployments. He is a seasoned product executive and holds more than 20 patents in the SaaS, cloud, data, analytics, security, and SDx spaces. Prior to joining SolarWinds, Mr. Kasturi was Chief Product Officer at Pulse Secure where he transformed its on-premises product portfolio to SaaS while driving product excellence. Mr. Kasturi holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Andhra University, India.

Andrea Webb has served as our Chief Customer Officer since January 2021 and is responsible for expanding the SolarWinds customer success culture and simplifying user experiences. Webb partners closely with global sales leaders on the end-to-end customer lifecycle and with the larger organization to share expertise in support of the SolarWinds vision to put customer success at the forefront of its corporate strategy. Ms. Webb previously served as our Senior Vice President, Customer Retention and Renewal Sales from January 2019 to January 2021, Global Vice President Customer Retention and Renewal Sales from January 2017 to January 2019, Vice President Customer Retention and Renewal Sales January 2012 to January 2017, Director Customer and Business Operations January 2009 to January 2012, Sr. Manager Customer and Business Operations from January 2006 to January 2009 and Operations and Business Manager from 2002 to January 2006. During her tenure she built a world-class team contributing heavily to the renewals, customer service, sales engineering, and customer success areas of the business. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Webb was a Senior Business Analyst for First Union, Default Services, where she managed the Default Services Portfolio, Reporting and Analyst teams.

Carolyn Walsh serves as our Group Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and brings over 25 years of marketing experience. Responsible for global marketing initiatives, including the development of our omnichannel strategy, Walsh partners closely with the product and sales organizations to unify, prioritize, and accelerate results. Walsh joined the company in 2014 and previously served as Vice President, APJ and EMEA Marketing, where she led international marketing plans to build awareness and growth in key markets. Prior to joining SolarWinds, Walsh was a Marketing Director at Dell where she drove EMEA online demand generation.