Zscaler Names Former Wipro CTO as Vice President, India Operations
SOURCE: Press Release
DATE: August 25th, 2008
Zscaler, the industry-first,
multi-tenant SaaS security service, announced today that
has joined the company as Vice President of India Operations. Divakaran brings
a 30-year track record of experience in various technology leadership roles.
He was recognized for his technology leadership by Business Week magazine in
the 2006 “Champions of Innovation” Top 25 list.
As CTO of Wipro, Divakaran was responsible for leading technology and
innovation initiatives in areas such as grid computing, service-oriented
architecture, collaboration, and wireless and broadband technologies. Prior to
taking over as CTO, Divakaran headed Wipro’s Embedded Solutions division and
led its growth into new global industry segments, including Consumer,
Automotive and Industrial Automation. From 1994 to 2000, he managed the
Telecom Technology business. He has been involved in Wipro’s global businesses
since 1991 and pioneered Offshore Development Centers (ODC) for large
technology companies. Earlier in his career, Divakaran was instrumental in the
design and development of a series of popular mini computers in the Indian
market.
“Divakaran has played an instrumental role in growing Wipro from a
start-up to a dominant IT services company,” said
CEO of Zscaler. “His experience and leadership will be a great asset to
successfully scale Zscaler operations.”
“Zscaler has created a revolutionary technology that sets a new standard
for in-the-cloud security, one of the fastest growing market segments,” said
Divakaran. “I am very excited about joining Zscaler and look forward to taking
About Zscaler, Inc.
Through a multi-tenant, globally-deployed infrastructure, Zscaler enforces
business policy, mitigates risk, and provides twice the functionality at half
the cost of current solutions. It enables organizations to provide the right
access to the right users, from any place and on any device-while empowering
the end-user with a rich Internet experience. For more information, visit us
at http://www.zscaler.com.
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