He brings a unique mix of expertise and experience from technology as well as security domains.
As a police officer with the Govt of India, he gained experience in anti-terrorist ops, anti-insurgency ops, crowd control, traffic management, and infrastructure security. He also served as an Asst. Director in National Police Academy imparting training to the IPS probationers and other in-service courses
After serving as a police officer for more than a decade, he moved to the technology domain and handled high-technology projects managing large teams across different continents. He had designed, developed, commercialized different products in domains such as transportation, security, electronics, aviation, and healthcare
He holds M.Tech in Computer Science and an MBA. His expertise in technology includes Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, and Real-time systems
Earlier, Mr. Jain was Vice President Marketing at Voltaire that provides High Performance Grid Interconnect solutions. At Voltaire, he conceived & developed a winning product line including advanced networking hardware and software solutions. He put together technology and marketing partnerships with Intel, AMD, Oracle, and IBM. Prior to Voltaire, Mr. Jain served as Vice President Marketing & Business Development for Kerenix, an early stage company in the routing and switching space.
Prior to Kerenix, Mr. Jain served in executive marketing roles with Bay Networks and Nortel Networks. At Bay/Nortel he brought to market some of the most successful networking products ever introduced by Nortel including switches, routers and VPN solutions. Mr. Jain also has held executive positions at Ameritech (now Southwestern Bell), DSC Communications (now Alcatel) and Fujitsu. Mr. Jain's broad domain experience covers telecom, data networking. VPNs. security, storage, and software.
Mr.Jain has held executive positions on the boards of STC Boston, Boston Entrepreneur's Network and TiE Boston. Mr. Jain holds a BSEE from Delhi College of Engineering, India and an MBA from University of Illinois.
An Indian Police Service officer (IPS) officer from Madhya Pradesh cadre, Mr Rajgopal gained experience at leadership levels in different aspects of policing in the vast state with multiple security problems. These included anti-insurgency operations in the vast jungles of Madhya Pradesh. He also spent a major chunk of his service in the top intelligence organizations of the Govt of India. He was also the director of National Police Academy and brought major reforms in the training methodology of the IPS officers.
Worked for more than three decades as a senior police officer with the Govt. of India. He spent more than a decade working on VIP security and was also entrusted with the security of Prime Minister. He worked on different assignments including anti-terrorist operations, crowd-management, infrastructure security at different leadership levels including Inspector General of Police
20+ years of senior management experience in Product Management, Strategic Alliances, Business Development, and Sales. Passion towards understanding real world customer data center situations and a wealth of experience in helping them with solutions that address their present and future business needs. Held executive positions at NetApp, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Hewlett-Packard Company prior to joining Oracle Corporation. Spearheaded the Cloud initiative and Embedded Systems business at NetApp.
Specialties: Business Development to accelerate revenue generation & bottom line profitability. Specialty areas include - Cloud, Storage, Solution Selling, and managing Technology Alliances.
MS Engineering Management from Stanford University, USA
MBA from University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business