Jawahar Sivasankaran

About Jawahar Sivasankaran

Jawahar brings 27+ years of progressive leadership experience in Corporate, Go-to-Market and Product leadership roles.He has experience leading large tech businesses at scale, with a platform approach and has also been a leader at PE and VC backed mid-late stage startups. Jawahar currently serves as the President of Cyware, leader in Cyber Threat Intelligence space. He has served an Operating Advisor with leading Private Equity and Consulting firms, focused on due diligence and portfolio operations and is active in the early stage startup community as investor and advisor.His previous operating leadership role was with Appgate, where he served as the President and COO, leading all Go to Market functions including Sales, Marketing and Customer Success.Jawahar previously led Global Security Specialization Sales for Splunk. He was responsible for driving growth for Splunk\'s global security business in partnership with executive leadership, cross functional and theater teams.Before Splunk, Jawahar spent 15+ years at Cisco in various leadership roles.Most recently, he was responsible for leading global Sales & Business Development through Managed Security Providers, Strategic Partners, and Global Alliances.As a Senior Director, he previously led Sales GTM strategy & BD and before that he served as the Global Field CTO for the $2B+ security business. He played a key leadership role in transforming the global security business from the core focus of Network Security to subscription and SAAS, increasing focus on Cloud Security.Jawahar was part of the senior leadership team that formed Global Security Sales Organization at Cisco, a dedicated and accountable Cybersecurity specialists sales team.He was a founding member of the Cisco on Cisco practice, focused on customer success and advising customers on Technology and Business Transformation. He is a featured speaker in industry events. Jawahar started his career and grew in the technical ranks, eventually growing to a Cisco Distinguished Engineer and was part of the most senior technology leaders within the company. He leverages this strong technical, products and industry background and continual learning to effectively drive go-to-market success.Before Cisco, Jawahar worked at a satellite gateway startup building products. He started his career in the service provider business.Jawahar holds an MBA from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a Masters degree in IS Management and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering.

Experience

1. President

   Cyware

   Nov 2024 — Present

Education

• The Wharton School

  MBA