Dhananjay Nair is a successful and experienced entrepreneurial executive in the field of strategic alliances and business development. With cross-functional leadership experience in both startups and large companies, Nair has a proven track record in managing products ranging from multi-billion dollar mature products to launching early-stage products to driving large alliances. He has a diverse range of functional experience including alliances and business development, product management and marketing, GTM, pricing, and licensing models, as well as channel management.

Nair has a wealth of knowledge and expertise in several domains including IaaS/SaaS clouds, networking, and security, virtualization, and enterprise software. His educational background includes a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Economics from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Throughout his career, Nair has held several key positions in various organizations. He is currently the Strategic Alliances and Business Development executive at SolarWinds. He was previously the Business Strategy & Technology Alliances executive at ServiceNow, the SVP Strategy & Operations at Way.com, the Head of Strategic Alliances & Business Development at Zentera Systems, Inc., and the GTM Strategy & Execution executive at Microsoft.