Sandeep Varma is an accomplished strategy, finance, and mergers and acquisitions executive with over 20 years of experience leading new growth initiatives at top technology companies. He is a highly collaborative and cross-functional leader, dedicated to developing and implementing successful business transformation strategies. Sandeep's extensive experience in the cybersecurity, identity, API/micro-services, DevOps, AI/ML, and cloud infrastructure markets has led to his successful leadership of over 30 growth initiatives, totaling over $5B in M&A/divestitures, strategic partnerships, investments, and JVs. With proven expertise in strategic planning, budgeting/forecasting, market landscape analysis, complex negotiations, cross-functional alignment, financial/valuation modelling, deal sourcing, due diligence, and people management, Sandeep is a leading executive in his field. Sandeep studied MBA at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and received a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University. He currently serves as Head of Corporate Development at Coalfire. Sandeep has also held executive positions at CA Technologies, Intuit, Dell, and Symantec, and formerly advised companies such as REACH, Glilot Capital Partners, and Labs/02.