– USA, NJ – TrueFort, the application-centric micro-segmentation company, today announced the appointment of Balaji Yelamanchili to its Board of Directors, bringing over two decades of experience as an operating executive and investor in high-growth software companies.
“Balaji has served in virtually every executive role within the security industry including CEO, board member, operating executive, GM, and venture partner. His hands-on expertise as a chief executive, business unit leader, and an investor will play a pivotal role in helping TrueFort capitalize on our market opportunity and intellectual property. He is a strategic addition to our board,” said CEO, Sameer Malhotra.
About Balaji Yelamanchili
Balaji Yelamanchili is the CEO of threat intelligence platform provider ThreatConnect. Before ThreatConnect, he served as an Operating Executive with Evergreen Coast Capital, the tech private equity affiliate of Elliott Management, and also as the Venture Partner at Shasta Ventures, an early-stage Venture investment firm based in Silicon Valley. He previously served as EVP and GM of Symantec’s Enterprise Security Business Unit. Before Symantec, he oversaw business analytics and enterprise performance management products at Oracle as SVP. He has also held executive positions at EMC Corporation, Documentum Inc., and Rational Software, now part of IBM.
“TrueFort has developed a powerful and unduplicated approach to enterprise security that views the attack surface through the lens of application behavior,” said Balaji Yelamanchili. “This allows customers to detect and prevent threats that evade many traditional security products. I look forward to working with Sameer and the rest of the Board to help TrueFort scale its business.”
Balaji Yelamanchili holds an M.S. in Engineering from the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
About TrueFort
TrueFort puts you in control of lateral movement across the data center and cloud. The TrueFort Cloud extends protection beyond network activity by shutting down the abuse of service accounts. Founded by former IT executives from Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, leading global enterprises trust TrueFort to deliver unmatched application environment discovery and micro-segmentation for identity and activity.
For more information: https://truefort.com/
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