SolarWinds Corporation Appoints Sudhakar Ramakrishna as Chief Executive Officer, Effective on January 4, 2021
December 09, 2020 at 08:30 am EST
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SolarWinds Corporation and its Board of Directors have named Sudhakar Ramakrishna as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, effective on January 4, 2021. Sudhakar Ramakrishna is an experienced, global technology leader with nearly 25 years of experience across cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. He most recently served as the CEO of Pulse Secure®, a privately-held provider of secure and zero trust access solutions for Hybrid IT environments, where he was responsible for all aspects of business strategy and execution. Prior to Pulse Secure, Mr. Ramakrishna served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Enterprise and Service Provider Division at Citrix®, where he had responsibility for Citrix’s portfolio of virtualization, cloud networking, mobile platforms and cloud services solutions. Mr. Ramakrishna also has held senior leadership roles at Polycom, Motorola, Stoke, 3Com and U.S. Robotics. Mr. Ramakrishna earned a master’s degree in computer science from Kansas State University and a master’s of management degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
SolarWinds Corporation is a provider of observability and information technology (IT) management software. The Company provides solutions for observability, IT service management, application performance, and database management. The Companyâs solutions provide organizations worldwide with a comprehensive and unified view of distributed and hybrid network environments. It engages IT service and operations professionals, DevOps and SecOps professionals, and database administrators (DBAs) to understand the challenges they face in maintaining IT infrastructures, applications, and environments. Its products are designed to monitor and manage networks, systems, databases, and applications across on-premises, multi-cloud, and hybrid IT environments without the need for customization or, in most cases, professional services. In addition, the Companyâs IT service management solutions provide complementary cloud-based and on-premises service desk management capabilities.