Sachin Nayyar
Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board
Sachin Nayyar
Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board
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
Paul Zolfaghari
President
As President, Paul is responsible for developing Saviynt’s corporate strategy while directly overseeing all departments and operations of the company. Paul is a seasoned executive with significant experience in the business-to-business software and SaaS industries. From 2017 to 2022, Paul was a Managing Director at private equity firm 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 served on its Board from 2017 until 2022. From 2012 to 2016 Paul was President of MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) the global enterprise analytics company. From 2010 to 2012, Paul was COO of ParAccel, the enterprise database platform which is the software foundation of Amazon AWS’s Redshift EDW. From 1999 to 2010 Paul served in a number of senior roles at MicroStrategy, including EVP of Global Sales and Operations. Prior to his career in technology, Paul was a lawyer in Washington, DC, including serving as an attorney in the US Department of Justice.
Vibhuti Sinha
Chief Product Officer
Vibhuti Sinha
Chief Product Officer
As Chief Product Officer, Vibhuti leads product strategy, roadmap and innovation across the Saviynt Identity Platform, which secures more than 100 million identities worldwide. His organization spans AI and Non-Human Identity Security, Identity Governance and Administration, Privileged Access Management and Application Access Governance. Before becoming CPO, Vibhuti was Saviynt’s Chief Cloud Officer, responsible for the strategy, architecture, and development of its cloud platform
Ajay Garg
Chief Development Officer
Ajay Garg
Chief Development Officer
Ajay Garg is a seasoned senior engineering executive with over 25 years of experience leading global teams and driving innovation in cybersecurity, SaaS, and AI/ML-driven security solutions. Known for his ability to scale high-performance teams and deliver cutting-edge technology, Ajay has a proven track record across diverse domains, including Data security, SaaS security, Internet Security, Network Security, Secure Access, and big data analytics.
Most recently, as Vice President of Engineering at Palo Alto Networks, Ajay led a global engineering organization across product development, AI/Data Science, security research, and cloud services. He played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s strategic product roadmap, launching industry-first security solutions, and driving initiatives that led to significant revenue growth. Ajay also played a key role in scaling products, innovating security features, and identifying new growth opportunities, including acquisitions.
Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Ajay served as Global VP of Engineering at CyberCube Analytics, where he led the development of the industry-leading Cyber Risk Analytics platform. He has also held key leadership roles at FireEye and Cisco Systems, where he drove innovation in cloud security, threat analytics, secure access, firewall security, and content security (web and email).
Throughout his career, Ajay has demonstrated a remarkable ability to scale engineering organizations, and deliver impactful products that drive business growth. His leadership philosophy centers on building high-performance cultures, fostering innovation, and ensuring customer-first product development.
Pete Angstadt
Chief Commercial Officer
Pete Angstadt
Chief Commercial Officer
Pete Angstadt has spent his career doing one thing exceptionally well: building the go-to-market machinery that takes identity and cybersecurity companies to the next level. At Ping Identity, he helped push the company past $1B ARR. Before that, he led ForgeRock from $50M to $300M and through its IPO. Most recently, he served as President of GTM at Securiti, where he helped steer the company through its acquisition by Veeam.
At Saviynt, Pete leads all commercial and go-to-market functions — sales, market strategy, and partner relationships. His focus: turn strong product and deep customer partnerships into durable, scalable growth. With AI fundamentally rewriting how enterprises think about identity and access, Pete is building the commercial motion to make sure Saviynt is the company organizations lean on to win in the AI era.
Kevin Spurway
Chief Marketing Officer
Kevin Spurway
Chief Marketing Officer
As Chief Marketing Officer, Kevin is focused on driving Saviynt's growth by expanding demand generation, building brand awareness, and optimizing brand strategy and messaging. Kevin has over 20 years of experience building and leading high-performance marketing teams. Most recently, he held the position of CMO of Feedzai, a leading fraud prevention platform, where he energized demand generation to accelerate revenue growth and a transition to profitability. Prior to that, he served as CMO of Similarweb, a publicly traded SaaS market intelligence company, and CMO of Appian, a publicly traded low-code application development and process automation SaaS platform. At both companies he helped drive exceptional growth and successful IPOs. He has held similar senior marketing and corporate development positions at MicroStrategy and PTC. Kevin has a B.A. from Dartmouth and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Evelyn Acosta Behrendt
Chief Human Resources Officer
Evelyn Acosta Behrendt
Chief Human Resources Officer
Evelyn Acosta Behrendt brings over two decades of people leadership to Saviynt, with a track record of building high-performing cultures at some of the most dynamic companies in tech.
As CHRO, she shapes how Saviynt attracts, develops, and retains the talent behind the technology, translating business strategy into the human systems that make it real. She joined Saviynt as SVP of Human Resources in 2023 and was elevated to CHRO in 2026.
Before Saviynt, Evelyn served as Chief People Officer at both Episource and ForgeRock, where she partnered closely with executive leadership to scale organizations through periods of rapid growth and transformation. Earlier, she spent 15 years at Symantec as a Global HR Business Partner for the Consumer Business Unit, an experience that sharpened her instincts for operating at enterprise scale across complex, matrixed environments.
Evelyn holds an MBA in Business and Organizational Change from Pepperdine Graziadio Business School and a BBA with an emphasis in HR from Loyola Marymount University.
She believes the best companies are built on people who feel seen, challenged, and invested in, and she brings that conviction to everything she does at Saviynt.
Jim Routh
Chief Trust Officer
Jim Routh
Chief Trust Officer
Jim Routh is currently on the Boards of Supply Wisdom, GrammaTech, Savvy, Accountable Digital Identity Association and the Global Resiliency Federation. He is the former Board Chair for the Health Information Sharing & Analysis Center (H-ISAC) where he served for five years and former Board member for the Financial Services Information Sharing & Analysis Center (FS-ISAC). Jim is a former CSO/CISO for American Express, DTCC, KPMG, Aetna, CVS and MassMutual. Jim brings to the boards a vast business and technology background and is considered a digital and cyber security industry expert and thought leader. He has prepared and delivered several customized education sessions to Board members for the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) based on leading cyber security practices. Jim is currently an advisor for Transmit Security, Wiz, Devo, Netskope, Armis, Saviynt, Virsec, Securiti, Gurucul, Data Theorem, Picnic, Legit Security, Reveal Security, and Graphite Health. He serves in an advisory capacity and investor for cyber specific venture funds including: Syn Ventures, CyberStarts, Security Leadership Capital, Ballistic Ventures and Rain Capital. Jim is an ICIT Fellow and an Adjunct Faculty member where he teaches cybersecurity for the NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
Sachin Nayyar
Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board
Sachin Nayyar
Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board
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.
Jesper Andersen
Board Member
Jesper Andersen
Board Member
Jesper Andersen has held executive leadership positions for fast-paced, global enterprise software and infrastructure companies for more than the past two decades. Most recently, he was the CEO of Infoblox, a leading provider of DDI networking and cyber security solutions. Prior to that Andersen held various executive positions at Cisco, Oracle Corp, and Peoplesoft. Andersen has a Master of Computer Science from Aalborg University in his native Denmark.
Christopher Wenner
Board Member
Christopher Wenner
Board Member
Chris Wenner is a managing director of Carrick Capital Partners where he is involved in all areas of the firm’s investing activities and a member of the firm’s investment committee. He leads the firm’s thematic sourcing effort focusing on healthcare, cyber security, fintech and infrastructure software. Chris works with the CEOs and executive teams of the firm’s portfolio to assist these companies in navigating growth opportunities and increasing long-term value. He is an active board member or observer of several Carrick portfolio companies including Bishop Fox, Saviynt, and Renalogic. Prior to joining Carrick, Chris worked at Perella Weinberg Partners, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, and private capital transactions in the technology industry for clients including Oracle, Google and Hewlett-Packard. Chris graduated from the University of California with a BA in economics. In his spare time, Chris enjoys sailing, hunting, and raising his two young children with his wife Lauren in the East Bay.
Ben Pederson
Board Member
Ben Pederson
Board Member
Ben Pederson (New York) joined KKR in 2016 and is a member of the Tech Growth team, focusing on growth equity investments in the Americas and Europe. He is actively involved with KKR's investments in Aiwyn, Anchorage Digital, ContentSquare, Darktrace, GetYourGuide, Ivalua, Level Access, NetSPI, OneStream, Outsystems, Semperis, RVShare, and XOi. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Pederson was with Spectrum Equity in Boston, Massachusetts focusing on software and internet investments. Mr. Pederson holds a dual B.S. in Finance & Information Systems from Boston College.
Hemen Vimadalal
Board Member
Hemen Vimadalal
Board Member
Hemen Vimadalal is a technology entrepreneur, investor, and business leader with extensive experience building, scaling, and investing in high-growth technology companies at the intersection of cybersecurity, identity, artificial intelligence, and enterprise innovation.
Hemen is the Founder and CEO of 1Kosmos, where he is focused on transforming digital identity security through passwordless authentication, identity verification, and next-generation cybersecurity solutions. Throughout his career, he has helped build and accelerate several successful cybersecurity companies, including Vaau, Simeio, brinQa, Securonix, and Saviynt.
Beyond operating roles, Hemen is an active investor and ecosystem builder. He founded Sprout and Oak Ventures, an early-stage investment platform focused on supporting innovative companies from inception through Series B. Through Sprout and Oak Ventures, Hemen has invested in emerging technology companies across cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and enterprise software, including Aiceberg, Qulr.ai, DataBahn, and Corvic.
Recognized for his strategic vision, entrepreneurial mindset, and ability to build enduring companies, Hemen brings a unique perspective as an operator, investor, and advisor. He is passionate about helping entrepreneurs scale transformative technologies, mentoring future leaders, and leveraging AI and cybersecurity innovation to solve some of the most complex challenges facing enterprises today.