Vats Srivatsan

Vats Srivatsan a member of WatchGuard's Board of Directors and an operating partner at Vector Capital. Vats served as the COO at SentinelOne, where he helped accelerate profitable growth through strategic partnerships and operational rigor. Before that, he played a central role as CSO in transforming Palo Alto Networks into a multi-platform cybersecurity leader, leading 10 acquisitions in under three years. Vats’ earlier experience includes building and scaling Google Cloud’s business from the ground up, launching Google’s Advanced Solutions Lab for AI, co-founding McKinsey & Company’s operations service for tech, media, and telecom, and driving factory performance improvement through automation systems as a senior Intel engineer.

Vats has a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Executive Team

Joe Smolarski, Chief Executive Officer

Michelle Welch, Chief Marketing Officer & SVP of Business Strategy

Katy Coffey, Chief Financial Officer

HoJin Kim, SVP & Chief Revenue Officer

Jack Waters, SVP of Engineering

Andrew Young, Chief Product Officer & SVP of Product Management

Raju Chiluvuri, Chief Information Officer

Corey Nachreiner, Chief Security Officer

Jay Lindenauer, VP, Network Security

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