Mandar Naik

Mandar Naik currently serves as the Vice President of Azure Managed Redis Global Sales & Partnership at Redis, a role started in January 2022. Prior to this, Mandar was with Cloudera from September 2018 to January 2022, where responsibilities included Managing Director of Strategic Alliances & Go-To-Market and Managing Director of Strategic Cloud Alliances. Mandar's extensive experience at Microsoft spanned from 1997 to 2018, holding various senior leadership positions including Director of Worldwide Open Source Sales Strategy on Azure and Director of Marketing, focusing on strategies that enhanced market presence and revenue growth through cloud solutions. Mandar’s early career included a Premier Support Engineer role at Microsoft and a Training Executive position at the Network Institute of Computer Education, complemented by education from the University of Mumbai and A. H. Wadia High School.