Balaji Ganesan is CEO and co-founder of Privacera. Before Privacera, Balaji and Privacera co-founder Don Bosco Durai, also founded XA Secure. XA Secure’s was acquired by Hortonworks, who contributed the product to the Apache Software Foundation and rebranded as Apache Ranger. Apache Ranger is now deployed in thousands of companies around the world, managing petabytes of data in Hadoop environments. Privacera’s product is built on the foundation of Apache Ranger and provides a single pane of glass for securing sensitive data across on-prem and multiple cloud services such as AWS, Azure, Databricks, GCP, Snowflake, and Starburst and more.
Don Bosco Durai (Bosco) is CTO and co-founder of Privacera, an entrepreneur and a thought leader in enterprise security. He is the co-creator of Apache Ranger, which is the de facto centralized authorization tool for most open source big data tools. Prior to founding Privacera, Bosco was also the co-founder of XA Secure, which redefined access security at scale. XA Secure was acquired by Hortonworks (now Cloudera) and the product became Apache Ranger. Before that Bosco was the co-founder of Bharosa, which did fraud detection in real-time. Bharosa was acquired by Oracle and at Oracle, Bosco led the modernization of access management for their Fortune 500 customers.
As CFO of Privacera – the cloud data governance and security leader founded by the creators of Apache Ranger™ – Linda has been a valuable and trusted member of the Executive Team. She brings 30+ years’ experience working with early-stage growth companies to her position at Privacera where she is responsible for finance, legal, operations/HR, negotiations, fundraising,and organizational processes.
Most notably, Linda has helped increase Privacera’s team by 130 percent, and she secured outside funding for the company whose mission is to enable data democratization without compromising compliance with regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, LGPD, and HIPAA. Prior to Privacera, she was an integral part of the C-Suite for a number of emerging businesses where she oversaw financial management and growth, and managed M&A activities that led to acquisitions by AT&T, eBay, Smith Micro, Riverstone, and Excite.
Slawek Ligier has over 20 years of executive experience managing product development, engineering and operations. The most recent chapter of his career was focused on building cyber security solutions for enterprises of all sizes. He was part of the executive team bringing new and innovative products to the market at companies such as McAfee, Skyhigh, Barracuda, Safenet, Symantec and Verisign. He is sought after speaker at industry events and appears frequently on both local and national news stations, bringing security awareness to the general public.
Piet Loubser serves as Global Senior Vice President of Marketing at Privacera where he is responsible for leading all aspects of marketing. His professional career includes more than 30 years in the Hi-Tech industry driving product, sales and marketing strategies in numerous companies transforming product focused GTM into customer solutions centric GTM to accelerate growth. Prior to Privacera, Piet held executive leadership positions in marketing and sales at market leading companies including SymphonyAI, Paxata, Hortonworks, Informatica, SAP and Business Objects. As part of the executive leadership teams at these global technology companies, he has built deep expertise across the entire Product to GTM value chain to drive growth strategies at all levels of organizational size. Piet holds a B.S. degree in computer science and applied mathematics from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.
Jabari Norton brings over 20 years of sales leadership experience with a successful track record of driving early/mid-stage start-up companies to successful IPO/outcomes. Prior to joining Privacera, he was VP of WW Partner Sales and Alliances at Sumo Logic and prior was Vice President of Business Development at Confluent. Prior to Confluent, he spent 15+ years in the Analytics and SaaS security space leading Strategic Alliances at MapR, Head of North America Sales at ScanSafe (now Cisco), Head of Commercial Sales at Qualys, and Global Account Manager at Postini (now Google). Jabari holds a BS in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis.
Don Bosco Durai (Bosco) is CTO and co-founder of Privacera, an entrepreneur and a thought leader in enterprise security. He is the co-creator of Apache Ranger, which is the de facto centralized authorization tool for most open source big data tools. Prior to founding Privacera, Bosco was also the co-founder of XA Secure, which redefined access security at scale. XA Secure was acquired by Hortonworks (now Cloudera) and the product became Apache Ranger. Before that Bosco was the co-founder of Bharosa, which did fraud detection in real-time. Bharosa was acquired by Oracle and at Oracle, Bosco led the modernization of access management for their Fortune 500 customers.
Balaji Ganesan is CEO and co-founder of Privacera. Before Privacera, Balaji and Privacera co-founder Don Bosco Durai, also founded XA Secure. XA Secure’s was acquired by Hortonworks, who contributed the product to the Apache Software Foundation and rebranded as Apache Ranger. Apache Ranger is now deployed in thousands of companies around the world, managing petabytes of data in Hadoop environments. Privacera’s product is built on the foundation of Apache Ranger and provides a single pane of glass for securing sensitive data across on-prem and multiple cloud services such as AWS, Azure, Databricks, GCP, Snowflake, and Starburst and more.
