Sumanth Kakaraparthi

Sumanth Kakaraparthi has extensive work experience in product management and marketing roles. Sumanth is currently the VP of Product Management, Product Marketing & Technical Partnerships at Imperva, where they lead a team of product marketers and has achieved thought leader status in the data security industry. Prior to that, Sumanth worked at Zscaler as a Senior Director and Director of Product Management, where they successfully implemented the Zero Trust Strategy, generating a $20 million ARR and driving growth. Sumanth also held various roles at Cisco, including Director of Product Management and Sr. Product Line Manager, where they led product strategy for virtualization, security, analytics, and SaaS experience. Additionally, Sumanth has engineering and startup experience from their time at Juniper Networks & Cisco and Gear6, respectively.

Sumanth Kakaraparthi completed an Executive Program on Artificial Intelligence: Implications for business strategy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management in 2017-2018. Prior to that, they pursued an Executive Business Development program at McKinsey in 2016-2017. Sumanth holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Colorado State University, which they obtained in 2001-2003. Sumanth also obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Osmania University in 1997-2001. In terms of additional certifications, Sumanth has completed courses such as Leading Effective Decision-Making from Yale School of Management in 2021, Leading with Data and Analytics from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2020, Blockchain Basics from the University at Buffalo & The State University of New York in 2019, and Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management in 2018.