Leadership Team
Management Team
Sachin Nayyar
Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board
LinkedIn Profile
In his role, Sachin is responsible for setting Saviynt’s corporate strategy, allocating capital, and ensuring positive outcomes for the company’s shareholders, customers, partners, and employees.
Sachin is a recognized visionary in the identity and cybersecurity space, where he remains one of the few individuals to have founded several successful companies in these markets. Prior to returning as CEO at Saviynt, Sachin was the Founder and CEO of Securonix, a leading SIEM company that he successfully scaled and brought a $1 billion+ growth investment led by Vista Equity Partners in 2022. Before Securonix, Sachin was the Founder and CEO of identity management company Vaau, where he built the company from conception to a successful acquisition by Sun Microsystems. While at Sun, he held the role of Chief Identity Strategist, responsible for the vision and direction of Sun’s entire security portfolio. Sachin was an early pioneer in the fields of identity & access governance, cloud security, risk management, continuous compliance, and security analytics where he stayed consistently for over two decades. Sachin is also an accomplished speaker and frequently addresses identity and cybersecurity industry conferences and seminars.
Paul Zolfaghari
President & Board Member LinkedIn Profile Paul is responsible for helping to develop Saviynt’s corporate strategy, while overseeing all functional operations of the company, ensuring that the company delivers on both its short-term plans and long-term strategic initiatives. Paul is an experienced executive with significant domain and operational expertise in the business-to-business software and SaaS industries. From 2017 to 2022, Paul was a Managing Director at Carrick Capital Partners where he was a member of the Investment Committee and Chairman of the Operations Committee. While at Carrick, Paul co-led the investment in Saviynt, and has served on its Board since that investment in 2017. From 2012 to 2016 Paul was President of global enterprise analytics company MicroStrategy (Nasdaq MSTR). From 2010 to 2012, Paul was COO of ParAccel, the enterprise database company best known as the software foundation of Amazon AWS’s Redshift platform. From 1999 to 2010 Paul served in a number of senior roles at MicroStrategy, including EVP of WW Sales and Operations. Paul has been a frequent public speaker on the technology industry and corporate operations, including interviews in the Wall Street Journal, CIO Magazine, and Information Week.
Amit Saha
Chief Growth Officer & Co-Founder LinkedIn Profile As Chief Growth Officer, Amit is focused on developing and executing on the investment and growth strategies that build and grow the company’s strategic initiatives and its core customer and partner relationships.Amit brings over two decades of identity and cybersecurity industry expertise, where he has helped organizations address and solve some of their most critical identity, security, and compliance challenges. As a Co-Founder and the previous CEO of Saviynt, Amit was responsible for the first phase of the company’s evolution and growth, providing the strategic leadership and execution that has positioned Saviynt as a leader in the identity management market. Prior to his tenure as CEO in 2018, Amit was COO of Saviynt, where from 2014 to 2018 he led sales, business development, alliances, and go-to-market strategy. Prior to joining Saviynt, Amit held leadership positions at Infosys and HCL, including as Identity Practice Engagement Manager and Senior Architect. With his long and distinguished tenure, Amit is widely considered a leading expert in identity and access management, information security, and risk and compliance management.
Shankar Ganapathy
Chief Operating Officer LinkedIn Profile Shankar Ganapathy has over two decades of experience as an operating executive in Enterprise Software & SaaS companies in Analytics & Data Management. Most recently, Shankar served as Head of Global Field Operations & CRO at Paxata where he helped the company achieve substantial top-line growth and supported their successful acquisition by DataRobot. Prior to that, Shankar was at MicroStrategy where he held multiple senior executive and GM roles in North America and International markets with significant revenue and P&L responsibilities. Shankar currently serves on multiple company boards in Data, AI and Edge domains. Shankar received his education at the Indian Institute of Technology, Yale University and MIT.
Adnan Alvi
Executive VP, Head of Technology & Product LinkedIn Profile Adnan brings strong product and technical expertise that is focused on the next generation of innovation, scale, and customer experience for Saviynt products. His experience in SaaS Databases, Identity, CRM, Analytics as a Service and platform as a service is key to building the world class products for Saviynt customers. His career includes leadership roles at Hewlett Packard R&D, HP Enterprise Services, Teradata and Publicis Groupe. He strives for success by focusing on customers, partners and R&D.
Atul Vij
Chief Technology Officer LinkedIn Profile Atul Vij is the CTO at Saviynt. He leads engineering and product development, and is also responsible for the overall technology strategy at Saviynt. Atul brings over 15 years of experience in security and the Identity Access Management space, and specializes in Compliance, Role Governance, Risk, and Segregation of Duty (SOD). Prior to Saviynt, Atul held key positions at VAAU, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle, where he led product design, pre-sales, and delivery implementations.
Yash Prakash
Chief Marketing Officer
LinkedIn Profile
Yash Prakash is the Chief Marketing Officer of Saviynt. Yash works closely with customers, partners and employees to successfully deliver an intelligent Identity Governance and Cloud Security solution.
This includes taking Saviynt’s unique solution approach from inception to delivering the right capabilities so Saviynt customers can effectively manage security and protect business-critical assets. As a key member of the executive team, Yash leads several strategic initiatives to drive company growth and deliver on the company’s mission of enabling smarter security for its customers. Prior to taking up this role, Yash led several key functions within Saviynt including product management, marketing, analyst relations, information security, and professional services. He brings over two decades of experience in product management, consulting, business development, and executing complex engagements for leading enterprises across the globe. Prior to joining Saviynt, Yash held leadership positions at IBM and Infosys.
Jeff Margolies
Chief Strategy Officer LinkedIn Profile Jeff Margolies is the Chief Strategy Officer of Saviynt where he leads strategy, technology partnerships, and corporate development. As a member of the executive team, Jeff works closely with customers, partners and across the organization to develop a vision and long term roadmap for Saviynt. He leads several strategic initiatives to drive growth and deliver on the vision. Prior to joining Saviynt, Jeff spent over 25 years in the security and Identity industry, as part of the security leadership teams of both Accenture and Deloitte and leading strategy, partnerships and corporate development for Mandiant. Jeff has a Bachelor's degree in Optical Engineering from the University of Rochester, and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley.
Jim Jackson
Chief Financial Officer LinkedIn Profile As Chief Financial Officer, Jim leads the global finance, accounting, tax, capital raising, and contracting functions at Saviynt. Prior to joining Saviynt he served as the chief financial officer for several public and private companies for more than 13 years where he also led two successful initial public offerings. Jim was most recently CFO of Tanium, Inc., a leading endpoint management and security company. His experience also includes 18 years as an investment banker in the US and Asia for Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. Jim holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from The Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Todd Rotger
Chief Revenue Officer LinkedIn Profile Todd Rotger is currently the Chief Revenue Officer at Saviynt where he leads the revenue functions of the company and is part of the executive team. He is a 30-year sales veteran with 23 years in sales & sales leadership roles with companies like CA, McAfee, Mercury, VMware, and HP. Prior to Saviynt he was the VP, Global Security & Risk Sales at ServiceNow where he was part of building a new Security & GRC business to over $170 CACV in less than four years.
Vibhuti Sinha
Chief Product Officer LinkedIn Profile As Chief Product Officer, Vibhuti is responsible for the vision, innovation and strategic direction of Saviynt’s product lines and product strategy, as well as, product and partner success. Prior to the CPO role, Vibhuti Sinha led the Cloud Products and Solutions at Saviynt as its Chief Cloud Officer. He was responsible for the strategy, architecture, and development of next-generation solutions including securing various cloud providers and platforms.He has nearly two decades of experience defining security architecture, IAM strategy, and implementing large scale security platforms for Fortune 500 organizations. Prior to Saviynt, he held various leadership positions and partnered with large financial institutions in addressing compliance and security needs including FFIEC, risk-based authentication, and access life-cycle management.
Board Members
Sachin Nayyar
Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board
LinkedIn Profile
In his role, Sachin is responsible for setting Saviynt’s corporate strategy, allocating capital, and ensuring positive outcomes for the company’s shareholders, customers, partners, and employees.
Sachin is a recognized visionary in the identity and cybersecurity space, where he remains one of the few individuals to have founded several successful companies in these markets. Prior to returning as CEO at Saviynt, Sachin was the Founder and CEO of Securonix, a leading SIEM company that he successfully scaled and brought a $1 billion+ growth investment led by Vista Equity Partners in 2022. Before Securonix, Sachin was the Founder and CEO of identity management company Vaau, where he built the company from conception to a successful acquisition by Sun Microsystems. While at Sun, he held the role of Chief Identity Strategist, responsible for the vision and direction of Sun’s entire security portfolio. Sachin was an early pioneer in the fields of identity & access governance, cloud security, risk management, continuous compliance, and security analytics where he stayed consistently for over two decades. Sachin is also an accomplished speaker and frequently addresses identity and cybersecurity industry conferences and seminars.
Paul Zolfaghari
President & Board Member LinkedIn Profile Paul is responsible for helping to develop Saviynt’s corporate strategy, while overseeing all functional operations of the company, ensuring that the company delivers on both its short-term plans and long-term strategic initiatives. Paul is an experienced executive with significant domain and operational expertise in the business-to-business software and SaaS industries. From 2017 to 2022, Paul was a Managing Director at Carrick Capital Partners where he was a member of the Investment Committee and Chairman of the Operations Committee. While at Carrick, Paul co-led the investment in Saviynt, and has served on its Board since that investment in 2017. From 2012 to 2016 Paul was President of global enterprise analytics company MicroStrategy (Nasdaq MSTR). From 2010 to 2012, Paul was COO of ParAccel, the enterprise database company best known as the software foundation of Amazon AWS’s Redshift platform. From 1999 to 2010 Paul served in a number of senior roles at MicroStrategy, including EVP of WW Sales and Operations. Paul has been a frequent public speaker on the technology industry and corporate operations, including interviews in the Wall Street Journal, CIO Magazine, and Information Week.
Amit Saha
Chief Growth Officer & Co-Founder LinkedIn Profile As Chief Growth Officer, Amit is focused on developing and executing on the investment and growth strategies that build and grow the company’s strategic initiatives and its core customer and partner relationships.Amit brings over two decades of identity and cybersecurity industry expertise, where he has helped organizations address and solve some of their most critical identity, security, and compliance challenges. As a Co-Founder and the previous CEO of Saviynt, Amit was responsible for the first phase of the company’s evolution and growth, providing the strategic leadership and execution that has positioned Saviynt as a leader in the identity management market. Prior to his tenure as CEO in 2018, Amit was COO of Saviynt, where from 2014 to 2018 he led sales, business development, alliances, and go-to-market strategy. Prior to joining Saviynt, Amit held leadership positions at Infosys and HCL, including as Identity Practice Engagement Manager and Senior Architect. With his long and distinguished tenure, Amit is widely considered a leading expert in identity and access management, information security, and risk and compliance management.
Bobby Morrison
Board Advisor
LinkedIn Profile
As a member of Saviynt’s Board of Advisors, Bobby Morrisson brings a tenured executive level of leadership with 20+ years of experience leading/transforming multi-billion dollar organizations with deep expertise in marketing, finance, product development, commercial strategy, enterprise sales, consumer sales, digital transformation, and executive team leadership.
In addition to serving on Saviynt’s Board of Advisors, Bobby is currently the CRO of Intuit. Prior to Intuit, Bobby led Microsoft’s WW Small, Medium, Corporate and Education Market Segments.
Elissa Fink
Board Advisor LinkedIn Profile Elissa Fink was Tableau Software’s CMO for 11+ years and retired at the end of 2018. She is credited with driving marketing through all stages of growth, driving the company from ~$5 million to over $1 billion in revenue. Elissa also cultivated and grew the loyal and enthusiastic Tableau fanbase from 2,000 customers to over 100,000. She now serves on boards, advises fast-growth tech companies in scaling and marketing strategy, and also teaches at the University of Washington.
Eric Brown
Board Advisor LinkedIn Profile Eric is an experienced public company CFO with proven operational skills. Industry experiences include a range of enterprise technology areas including: security, business intelligence, collaboration and consumer products / video gaming. Eric is a technology enthusiast and has worked as an enterprise technology company co-founder / prior to serving as a public company CFO for the last 15 years. Eric has served on several public company boards (IGT and Verity) prior to advising Saviynt’s board.
Jim Dubois
Board Advisor LinkedIn Profile Prior to joining Saviynt’s Board of Advisors, Jim DuBois served as Chief Information Officer and Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Corporation from May 2013 to September 2017. Mr. DuBois was accountable for the company’s global security, IT infrastructure, collaboration and business applications. Jim is a tech leader with a unique view of IT innovation and digital transformation along with a deep understanding of technical strategy, cyber security, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. He brings content about these topic areas to life with stories from his 25 years at Microsoft, especially leading the digital transformation as CIO as Satya Nadella reinvented Microsoft.
Jim Routh
Board Advisor LinkedIn Profile Jim is a transformational security leader with a demonstrated track record of delivering world-class security capabilities to drive positive business results in a digital world. He is a board member and advisor to many companies and the former CISO of MassMutual, Aetna, and American Express.
Ram Ramachandran
Board Advisor LinkedIn Profile Ram Ramachandran is a technology executive with 25+ years of experience leading product development at enterprise and consumer technology organizations. Ram played a leading role in the growth of MicroStrategy as a founding engineering team member – helping to grow the engineering organization from 5 to 500+ spanning multiple locations. A named inventor on several US Patents in the fields of scalable software systems in the Business Intelligence and analytics fields, Ram currently serves as CTO and SVP of Global Services at Clarabridge – a leading SaaS provider of Customer Experience Management software.
Rick Snyder
Board Advisor LinkedIn Profile Rick Snyder is a transformational leader who currently serves on the boards of high-tech companies in the US and Europe. In addition to traditional board responsibilities, Rick works closely with these companies providing C-suite coaching, business strategy counsel, and route-to-market consulting. In 2019, Rick retired as a Senior Vice President at Cisco Systems after nearly ten years with the company - and over 30 years in the technology industry. During his time at Cisco, Rick led the Americas Partner Sales Organization as well as the Global and Strategic Partner Organization. Prior to Cisco, Rick was President of TANDBERG, where he helped scale the company to over $1B in revenue before Cisco’s 2010 acquisition of TANDBERG for $3.5B. Since retiring from Cisco, Rick has served on the boards of Ava Unified Security, Saviynt, Neat and Qush Security. In March 2022, Rick participated in the successful sale of Ava Unified Security to Motorola Solutions. Rick is also involved in a variety of charitable causes, including the V Foundation and the Humane Society of Naples. Rick and his wife, Leslie, have four children and are based in Naples, Florida. Rick holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Loyola University in Maryland.
