About Us

Vinay’s career is deeply rooted in technology and scaling operations. From a security research intern position at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and experience as a vulnerability engineer at Qualys, to later running multiple product lines and research teams in areas including botnet research and application firewalls as a senior R&D manager at McAfee, Vinay brings decades of experience in both engineering and business operations management. Vinay's leadership style incorporates a high level of empathy, ability to triage effectively, dexterity in toggling effortlessly between a bird’s eye and detailed view, decision-making prowess in the absence of perfect information, the 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 serving as Securly's first sales engineer, customer success manager, demand generation marketer, and renewals manager, and built and scaled the company's support and marketing teams. 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.

As co-founder and Chief Design Officer, Nikita has been responsible for Securly’s design and branding from the company’s inception and has touched every single pixel the company has put forth, including company logo, business cards, product UI, and much more. Nikita drives design thought leadership and execution throughout the company and manages customer experience for more than 8 products in Securly’s B2B and B2C portfolio. Prior to Securly, Nikita served as Product Designer at Citrix Systems, where she led the visual redesign of the company’s entire Intranet portal, used by more than 9,000 employees worldwide, and won the 2014 Design for Experience Award for her design.
Outside of design, dance is Nikita’s second passion. She is a certified Bollywood Cardio instructor, and teaches classes in her free time.

Anders has spent the past two decades leading companies in sales and customer support and providing technology solutions to the education market. Anders drives a motivational culture through personal coaching and investing in relationships, both with employees and customers. Anders co-founded an education-focused 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 his 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-ups and joined Securly in 2014 as VP of Sales to build the sales team and the company’s growth strategy from the ground up. Anders is also a commercial multi-engine rated pilot and was one of the youngest at the time to achieve Cisco CCNA certification.

Luis comes to Securly with over 15 years of executive experience in cybersecurity, as well as 7 years of experience working with SaaS companies. With his background in sales, marketing, and operations, Luis is working with Securly to achieve aggressive growth goals and scale the company’s sales operations. Before joining Securly, Luis served as Senior Vice President of the Americas at M86 Security, a market leader in the K-12 web filtering sector, prior to their acquisition by Trustwave. Luis also served as a Senior Vice President at Rainbow Technologies, where one of their business units specialized in the development of Special Education software solutions for several of the largest K-12 school districts in the United States. Luis began his career at IBM as an engineer before transitioning into marketing and sales. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and attended an executive education program in finance from the Wharton School of Business.

As the son of two educators, Rich has spent his career helping school districts scale personalized instruction and transition to digital curriculum. Prior to joining Securly, Rich was Vice President & General Manager of the classroom business at Follett Corporation and was Regional Vice President of strategic accounts at Amplify Education. Rich has built organizations from the ground up and managed international sales, marketing, product management, operations, and strategy teams. He has a track record of delivering exponential revenue growth in new products and creating exceptional customer relationships.

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 to scale the company’s sales and customer engagement through channel partners. Prior to joining 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 VARs and DMRs and is doing the same at Securly.

Scott comes to Securly with more than 14 years of industry and public accounting experience. Having previously served as Senior Vice President of Finance at DynamicAction, a prescriptive analytics solution built for retail, and as Vice President of Finance for Revel System, an iPad-based point of sale solution, Scott is no stranger to hyper-growth startups that have found product market fit. At Securly, Scott holds responsibility over all accounting, finance, forecasting, strategic planning, treasury, risk, and tax activities of the company. Scott began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in their Audit and Assurance practice, and is an Active Certified Public Accountant in the state of California. Scott graduated from Santa Clara University in 2006.

Neeraj laid the foundation for Securly’s India R&D center and along with Alpana, VP of India Operations, has built a robust and scalable product development operation for the company over the years. 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 two patents and has designed malware research infrastructure and security visualization tools. Neeraj has spent his career building threat research teams dealing with complex solutions for malware, reverse engineering, and network security. He shares his technology knowledge through security blogs and online media.

Alpana is a co-founder of Securly’s Pune office and one of the driving forces behind the success of the Securly’s R&D operations. Alpana has 15 years of experience in technical, managerial and research roles and laid the groundwork as the Pune office’s first Director of Program Management. Currently, Alpana oversees engineering, HR, office, and people operations in the India office. When not working, Alpana enjoys volunteering and spending time with her two adorable kids.

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 to launch products 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.

Andy is a global leader with over two decades of experience building and leading support teams around the world. Having held leadership roles in high tech powerhouse companies 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 experience and leadership create organizations that ensure high quality customer support experiences. Andy has lived and worked in India, Singapore, and Amsterdam building and reshaping customer support organizations, fostering global thinking and driving innovation in every team he leads.

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.

Jarrett is an entrepreneur and leader with over twenty-five years of experience in EdTech. He began his career in the 1990s working under IBM’s educational division, EduQuest, and since then, has founded multiple educational technology companies and provided technology consulting for K-12 districts. Through his work with K-12 districts, Jarrett saw a growing need for a mobile device management system that would meet the needs of the K-12 market, and founded TechPilot Labs in 2012. Securly acquired TechPilot Labs in 2019, and Jarrett serves as General Manager of Securly’s MDM and Classroom Technologies division.