Meet the team

Subbu currently serves as President and CEO at Aerospike. Subbu has over 25 years of experience leading teams at many innovative enterprise technology companies. He is passionate about monetizing and scaling businesses to reach their full potential. Subbu has held executive leadership roles at several technology companies including Oracle, Veritas Software, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell EMC and Riverbed Technology.

As Aerospike’s Chief Product Officer, Evan brings deep experience building and growing successful developer products and platforms, along with a passion for delivering exceptional developer experiences. A former General Manager at Twilio, Evan founded and grew the company’s Solutions Architecture organization, before kicking off the company's first Web and Mobile SDK initiatives, and eventually co-founding a standalone business unit targeting hardware device developers. After Twilio, Evan was CEO of Fin.com - an analytics startup backed by top-tier investors. Evan currently serves on the investment committee of Zenda Capital, a seed fund, and is an active advisor to venture-funded startups.

Alan Cyron is the Chief Financial Officer for Aerospike. Alan has over 25 years experience as CFO for various private and public companies including Engine Yard, Navis, Axis Systems, MobileAria and Paragon Trade Brands. Prior to becoming a CFO, he was a Managing Director in the corporate finance group at a predecessor of JPMorgan Chase advising public and private companies. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member of U.S. Bank and Board Member of Salutron.

Frank brings over 20 years of experience helping fast-growing technology companies realize the full potential of marketing. Frank was most recently SVP of Marketing for EnterpriseDB, supporting its expansion from $25 to $100M in 4 years. Before joining EDB, he was the VP of Marketing for Tesora up to its sale in 2017, and TwinStrata, where he re-positioned the company prior to its acquisition by EMC. His formal education includes an MBA from the MIT-Sloan School of Management and a BA from Bowdoin College. For the past decade, he has co-hosted the Marketing Agility Podcast, where he talks with marketers about innovative management models like Agile, Lean, and Kanban.

Naren has spent three decades in a variety of activities in the science and technology space - fundamental research at Bell Labs, working at startups in the email and advertising space, and leading engineering teams and launching new products and infrastructure in the areas of Search, Advertising, Storage, Networking, Distributed Systems, and AI/ML at Google and Amazon. Throughout his career, Naren has had a particular interest in adapting novel technological and scientific concepts to pragmatic applications in scalable and performant hardware and software. Naren has a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and an M.S. in Math and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Srinivasan "Sesh" Seshadri is the Chief Engineering Officer at Aerospike. Sesh is a veteran technology leader with over three decades of experience spanning academia, startups, and large companies. Sesh is an accomplished expert in databases with over 50 academic publications and more than a dozen patents in this area. He is also a leading expert in ML especially as applied to Search and Internet Advertising. Sesh has been an Assistant Professor at IIT Bombay, founded and led multiple startups to an exit in the Silicon Valley as well as India, and finally has been a senior leader at companies such as Google, Target, Yahoo, and Lucent Technologies. Sesh has a B.Tech, Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Tammy is the Chief Revenue Officer at Aerospike, where she leads the company's global revenue growth. With over 25 years of sales leadership experience, Tammy began her career at PTC before moving to EMC, where she held various sales leadership roles. In 2020, Tammy joined LaunchDarkly as VP of Sales, growing revenue from $20M to $100M in under three years. Most recently, she served as Chief Revenue Officer at Skyflow. Tammy is dedicated to fostering a customer-centric culture and helping clients leverage technology to drive growth and profitability.

Srini V Srinivasan is a Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Aerospike. When it comes to databases, Srini Srinivasan is one of the recognized pioneers of Silicon Valley. He has two decades of experience designing, developing and operating high scale infrastructures. He also has over a dozen patents in database, web, mobile and distributed systems technologies. Srini co-founded Aerospike to solve the scaling problems he experienced with Oracle databases while he was Senior Director of Engineering at Yahoo. Srini has a B.Tech, Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Tim Connor has 35 years experience working with high growth, technology driven companies. I’ve been on all sides of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a venture capital investor, investment banker and operating executive with private and public companies.

Subbu currently serves as President and CEO at Aerospike. Subbu has over 25 years of experience leading teams at many innovative enterprise technology companies. He is passionate about monetizing and scaling businesses to reach their full potential. Subbu has held executive leadership roles at several technology companies including Oracle, Veritas Software, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell EMC and Riverbed Technology.

George Kadifa is a co-founder and managing director of Sumeru Equity Partners. Kadifa has three decades of operating experience in the technology sector. Prior to joining Sumeru Equity Partners, Kadifa was most recently executive vice president, Strategic Relationships, HP. Reporting to the HP CEO and member of Executive Committee, Kadifa was responsible for leading growth initiatives and alliance programs with key partners, service providers and the largest customers. Kadifa previously served as executive vice president of HP Software. He led HP’s $4-billion software business that includes IT/Cloud Operations Management, Application Delivery Management, Enterprise Security and HP Big Data. Kadifa previously served as operating partner at Silver Lake, a global technology investment firm with over $26 billion of assets under management. He was responsible for driving growth and operational improvement in a wide range of enterprises within the company portfolio of the firm’s large-cap investment fund. Kadifa has significant expertise in building and managing technology businesses. He has held various leadership positions at technology and management consulting companies such as IBM, Corio Corporation (founder), Oracle, Booz-Allen & Hamilton and Xerox. Kadifa holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the American University in Beirut, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A., with Honors, from the University of Chicago.

Gilman Louie is a partner of Alsop Louie Partners, a venture capital fund focused on helping entrepreneurs start companies. He is also the former CEO of In-Q-Tel, a private nonprofit venture capital firm that invests in private companies on behalf of a wide range of United States intelligence agencies. Prior to In-Q-Tel, he ran a publicly traded company called Spectrum HoloByte which ultimately was acquired by Hasbro Corporation, where he served as chief creative officer of Hasbro Interactive and general manager of the Games.com. He serves as a member of the board of directors of the Markle Foundation and is chairman of the board of the Federation of American Scientists. Gilman is also an advisor to the US intelligence community.

Erich Ringewald is Senior Vice President and Chief Enterprise Architect at PayPal. He has spent over 30 years leading engineering and development teams at early stage startups as well as large, publicly traded companies. Before joining PayPal, Erich was Senior Vice President of Enterprise Architecture, Web and Mobile engineering at American Express. He led engineering and development teams at Amazon, Apple, Be, Boku, and Accept.

Srini V Srinivasan is a Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Aerospike. When it comes to databases, Srini Srinivasan is one of the recognized pioneers of Silicon Valley. He has two decades of experience designing, developing and operating high scale infrastructures. He also has over a dozen patents in database, web, mobile and distributed systems technologies. Srini co-founded Aerospike to solve the scaling problems he experienced with Oracle databases while he was Senior Director of Engineering at Yahoo. Srini has a B.Tech, Computer Science from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.