Management Team

Vembu is a leader in providing cost effective, hybrid (on-premise and cloud) data protection solutions.

Sekar Vembu

Chief Executive Officer

Sekar has been in the IT industry for over 14 years. He was a co-founder and a Business Unit head for AdventNet (now called Zoho), a leading player in the network management domain and now more known for their cloud based productivity suite of products. He had helped bootstrap AdventNet to a 300 people organization without raising any external funding. In 2004, Sekar founded Vembu Technologies, a company focused in the data backup and cloud storage domain and has since grown it into a profitable organization with over hundred employees.

Sekar holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a masters degree in Operations Research – both from IIT-Madras.

 

Jayavasanthan J

Vice President, Online Storage Services

Jay has been with Vembu Technologies since 2005 and is intimately familiar with the inner workings of StoreGrid. Prior to joining Vembu, Jay was with Adventnet where he worked on various products and diverse technologies in the 'Network Management' domain. Currently, Jay leads the R&D team at Vembu Tech that's working on the 'next generation' of StoreGrid & related storage solutions.

Jay completed his Engineering from Madras University with a specialization in Electronics & Communication Engineering.

 

Sathish Subramaniam

Vice President, Storage Products

Sathish Joined Vembu Technologies in 2007 after working for large corporate giants like Nortel and Verizon. Prior to joining Vembu, he was with Verizon Data Services both in India and in the USA, wherein he'd worked primarily on Speech Recognition based applications for the Telecom Industry and on varied applications for handheld wireless devices.

Sathish completed his Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT, Madras and thereafter obtained his Masters degree in Petroleum Engineering (yes, Petroleum) from The University of Texas, Austin. He went on to complete a second Masters in Computer Engineering with a specialization in Distributed Systems.

 

Sai V. Nagarajan

Director, Zukmo

Prior to joining Vembu, Sai had over 15 years of experience in the IT industry working with leading global service companies such as Accenture, Tata Consultancy Services, Cognizant Technology Services and Keane Inc. His core expertise is primarily in the Enterprise Content Management domain and he has donned roles in enterprise architecture, pre-sales support and project management for system integration and application outsourcing assignments with Fortune 500 clients.

Sai holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT-Madras and a Master’s degree in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering from West Virginia University at Morgantown.