Sriram Puthucode
About Sriram Puthucode
Sri is a category builder who loves identifying, building, accelerating, and scaling businesses. He is a seasoned professional in sales, channel, pre-sales engineering and customer excellence, scaling businesses to $100’s of millions in bookings. Sri currently leads all routes to market at Balbix, a startup that is a pioneer in cyber risk quantification. Sri was Global Vice President of GTM/Sales at Palo Alto Networks responsible for all aspects of Go to Market for the NG software firewall product suite growing the business 3 folds to $320M in 2.5 years. He also led sales, GTM, Channel and customer success at Elastica growing the business from $0 to $100M in 4 years through two different acquisitions as it was acquired by BlueCoat systems (and subsequently by Symantec) for $350M in cash and stock. Sri also had executive positions at Symantec and Qualys. Sri holds an MBA from Anderson School of Management, UCLA, Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from ASU and a BS degree in Industrial Engineering. He is an active startup advisor and early stage investor with multiple successful exits (in the US, Israel and India). Sri has proven ability to manage projects, GTM, and provide vision and strategic direction to diverse industry segments within Cyber security, green tech and non profit industries.