About Us

Vinay’s career is deeply-rooted in tech & scaling operations. From being a security-research intern at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs & a vulnerability engineer at Qualys, to later running multiple product lines and research teams - including botnet research & application firewalls - as a senior R&D manager at McAfee, Vinay brings decades of experience in both engineering & business/operations management. Vinay's leadership style incorporates (and inspires in his executive team) a high level of empathy, ability to triage effectively, dexterity in toggling effortlessly between a bird’s eye and detailed view, decision making even in the absence of perfect information, ability to reduce complex systems down to their fundamental components, and a deep dedication to Securly’s core mission. Vinay is listed as a primary inventor on several patents and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

As one of Securly's co-founders, Bharath wrote the first version of the company's core filtering engine and led the sales team that sold the first 200 accounts. He wore many hats as the company grew, including Securly's first sales engineer, post-sales representative, demand generation marketer, and renewals manager, and built and scaled the company's support and marketing teams to their current levels. Bharath has a Masters in Computer Science from Washington University at St Louis, and over a decade of enterprise security and engineering experience including an Architect level role at Huawei-Symantec. As Securly's Chief Revenue Officer he seeks to marry his engineering mindset with his operational experience in sales and marketing to help the company achieve the next level of scale.

Linsly brings two decades of experience building and leading high growth ventures in consumer, digital & media arenas. As the CMO of Wine.com, COO/co-founder of IdeaForest (acquired by Joann Fabrics and Crafts), and founding team member of Bain & Company's Los Angeles office, Linsly led data-driven organizations to deliver differential results by focusing on user delight. Most recently, as the CEO / co-founder of TheSmartFeed, Linsly and her team built the largest online family media database, curated by parent priorities. In addition to her work in digital media and e-commerce arenas, Linsly sits on the board of Parent TV Council, a nonprofit that advocates responsible internet entertainment. She also served as PTA President Mill Valley School District and holds a Longhorn Scholarship MBA from The University of Texas, Austin.

Kelly joins Securly with a management consulting and finance background and brings rich, cross-functional experience working with executives in both K-12 environments and growth-stage startups to lead strategy, business operations, finance, HR, and M&A. She previously served as Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Programs at Gather, a hospitality-focused SaaS company backed by Vista Equity Partners. Kelly also served as the Director of Strategic Projects for The Westminster Schools, a nationally-recognized, independent K-12 college preparatory school based in Atlanta, GA where she worked directly for the President and Board of Trustees to lead organizational transformation initiatives. Kelly started her career at Bain & Company in New York City where she partnered with clients from a variety of industries including private equity, consumer goods, technology, and non-profits. When she’s not at work, Kelly loves being active and outside - running, yoga, hiking, biking, trying new restaurants with her husband or traveling.

Andy is a global leader with 27 years of experience building and leading support teams around the world.  Having held leadership roles in high tech powerhouse companies, including Microsoft, NetApp, Rackspace, Nutanix, and Toshiba, Andy brings a customer-first leadership style that is key to his success in leading successful 24x7 support centers.  His leadership has driven operations that ensure high quality support experiences. Andy has lived and worked in India, Singapore, and Amsterdam building and reshaping customer support organizations, fostering global thinking and innovation in every team he leads.   

Anders has spent the past two decades leading companies in sales and customer support, and providing technology solutions in the education market. Anders’ focus on a motivational company culture revolves around coaching and investing in relationships with employees and customers to inspire maximum growth.  Anders co-founded an ed-tech web filtering company in 2004, and led the sales and support teams as the company expanded. He served as VP of Sales for a UK-based web filtering company, and propelled a new sales team to achieve 300% growth in 15 months in the US market. He has a passion for driving excellence in organizations to meet the specific needs of K-12 administrators. Anders has consulted for start-up ed-tech companies and joined Securly in 2014 as VP of Sales to build the sales team and growth strategy from the ground up. Anders is also a commercially multi-engine rated pilot, and was one of the youngest nationally to achieve Cisco CCNA certification.

Mike is an award-winning principal from North Carolina who joined Securly to champion student safety initiatives and drive adoption of SecurlyHome, the K-12 industry’s first parent engagement solution. As a school leader with extensive first-hand experience managing incidents of student cyberbullying, threats of violence, and self-harm, Mike brings the experience and passion necessary to guide school districts on their journey to enhanced student safety using the latest advanced technologies. Additionally, Mike serves as General Manager of Securly’s rapidly expanding eastern headquarters in Charlotte, NC.

Madhan is an accomplished technology leader experienced with building B2C and B2B products at scale for global impact. With a career spanning over two decades, he has successfully led large teams through product launches at Apple, Trilliant, Hewlett Packard and Symantec. Prior to joining Securly, he co-founded Development United and led the development of products for nonprofits and social enterprises as CTO, as well as serving as CTO of Tiquant, a provider of real time customer engagement and operational intelligence. He is a Bay Area resident who serves as a technical advisor for growth-stage startups and volunteers as a soccer coach and student safety evangelist for nonprofits and schools in his free time

Neeraj laid the foundation for the India office and has built a robust and scalable Engineering and R&D operation for Securly. He is focused on accelerating Securly's product development efforts and achieving operational excellence for our India operations. A Network Security veteran and threat detection expert, Neeraj has over 15 years of experience in the Enterprise Network Security Domain. He is the primary inventor on 2 patents and has designed several malware research infrastructures and security visualization tools. Neeraj has spent most of his career building threat research teams dealing with complex solutions for malware, reverse engineering, and network security. He has also been the author on some of the tech blogs at McAfee and other security magazines. When he is not researching new threats, Neeraj loves listening to music and reading tech blogs.

AJ is a channel veteran with over twenty years of experience in IT sales and channel management, and has spent the past ten years driving channel sales in the cybersecurity space. AJ joined Securly in 2018 and in one year, built Securly’s channel operations and grew the company’s channel-driven sales by 500%. Prior to Securly, AJ has had consistent success growing channel sales by 100% YoY at web filtering and K-12 focused companies, including M86 Security and Aerohive. He has a history of building long-term, successful partnerships with VAR’s and DMR’s and looks forward to executing the same at Securly.

As the son of two educators, Rich has spent the majority of his career helping districts scale personalized instruction and transition from print to digital. Bringing experience as former VP & GM of the classroom business at Follett Corporation and former Regional VP of strategic accounts at Amplify Education, Rich has a track record of delivering exponential revenue growth in new products. Having built organizations from the ground up and managed international sales, marketing, product management, operations, and strategy teams within complex reporting structures he understands the importance of setting processes and investing in an organization's biggest asset, its people.