Praveen Asthana is an accomplished executive leader with extensive experience in cybersecurity, SaaS, IaaS, and storage. He has a strong background in marketing, spanning across corporate, product marketing, demand gen, field marketing, and product management. Asthana has held various leadership positions and served as the Chief Marketing Officer at Gravitant, Chief Product Officer at EXTEN Technologies, and Senior Vice President, Cloud Business Group at Oracle among others. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering with Honors from the California Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. Asthana is a member of the founding team at Accelsius, has served on the Board Of Directors at Centre Technologies, and is a former Operating Advisor at Blackstone High Tech Portfolio.