Suku Krishnaraj

Suku Krishnaraj brings over 20 years of experience in IT management, IaaS and PaaS markets. Suku most recently headed the Cloud Business Unit at CenturyLink as their VP/General Manager managing P&L & GTM of the Cloud and managed hosting businesses. He came into CenturyLink through an acquisition of an early stage PaaS startup – AppFog where he was the CMO responsible for developer growth (DevOps) Marketing & Products. Prior to AppFog, Suku was an SVP at SolarWinds where he built a high-velocity GTM and demand generation engine for expanding into adjacent IT management markets. Prior to SolarWinds, Suku led product management and product marketing functions for a variety of IT Operations management products with Mercury, Hewlett Packard and Precise companies. Suku started his career in Engineering, building large-scale distributed systems as a Software Developer with BFL Software, VeriFone, and Hewlett Packard companies in Bangalore, India. Suku has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Mysore University, India and an MBA from Santa Clara University.