Zscaler Appoints Syam Nair as Chief Technology Officer to Accelerate Innovation and Product Development
17 May 2023 - 6:05AM
Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS), the leader in cloud security, today
announced that Syam Nair has been appointed as the company’s Chief
Technology Officer and EVP of Research and Development. In this
role, Nair will be responsible for driving the research and
development engines to expand Zscaler’s Zero Trust Exchange
platform, accelerate AI/ML innovations, and further scale the
largest security cloud in the world. Nair will join Zscaler’s
senior executive team on May 24, 2023.
“I am excited to welcome
Syam to the Zscaler’s leadership. He has real-world experience in
leading and scaling engineering and product development teams that
accelerated innovation cycles at Salesforce, one of the largest
SaaS and cloud platforms in the world,” said Jay Chaudhry, CEO,
Chairman, and Founder, Zscaler. “As we drive our business to reach
$5 billion in annual recurring revenue, with eyes set to go much
farther, Syam’s proven experience will play an important role in
scaling Zscaler’s platform and organization.”
Nair will bring more than
25 years of engineering and product development leadership with
expertise in ground-up incubation and in leading large teams at
Salesforce and Microsoft through R&D transformations. During
his tenure at Microsoft, Nair was part of the leadership team
responsible for building and the accelerated expansion of
planet-scale globally distributed Azure data services. At
Salesforce, Nair's leadership has been a driving force for key
strategic innovations, including Salesforce Genie, a hyper-scale
CRM Data Platform, while continuing to integrate inorganic
innovations and scaling the AI-powered customer engagement platform
for accelerated growth and 10x Scale. Nair and his leadership team
were also responsible for the vision and execution of
next-generation AI, Search, and Analytics experiences.
“I am delighted to join
the Zscaler leadership team and drive innovation and cloud platform
scale at the industry leader in cloud security,” said Nair.
“Enterprises are at the cusp of a technology evolution where
massive amounts of data are converging in the cloud and being put
into action with advanced AI and cybersecurity technologies.
Zscaler is at the forefront of this transformation with access to
the largest, most valuable data pool for cloud security, with more
than 300 billion transactions per day. As part of this leadership
team, I am very excited to drive the innovation vision and continue
to accelerate and deliver on the AI/ML-led cybersecurity
transformation for our customers with a hyper scale Zscaler
platform.”
Nair holds a master’s
degree in computer science and applications Engineering from Goa
University and a Master of Business Administration from Indiana
University – Kelley School of Business.
Forward-Looking StatementsThis press release
contains forward-looking statements that are based on our
management's beliefs and assumptions and on information currently
available to our management. These forward-looking statements
include the potential impact of the hiring to Zscaler's future
recurring revenue expected platform development and ability to
scale. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe
harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995. A significant number of factors could cause
actual results to differ materially from statements made in this
press release.
Additional risks and
uncertainties are set forth in our most recent Annual Report on
Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)
on March 8, 2023, which is available on our website at
ir.zscaler.com and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. Any
forward-looking statements in this release are based on the limited
information currently available to Zscaler as of the date hereof,
which is subject to change, and Zscaler will not necessarily update
the information, even if new information becomes available in the
future.
About
ZscalerZscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) accelerates digital
transformation so customers can be more agile, efficient,
resilient, and secure. The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange™ platform
protects thousands of customers from cyberattacks and data loss by
securely connecting users, devices, and applications in any
location. Distributed across more than 150 data centers globally,
the SSE-based Zero Trust Exchange™ is the world’s largest in-line
cloud security platform.
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Relations Contact:Bill Choi, CFAir@zscaler.com
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