Leadership

Amad Fida is CEO and founder of Brinqa. He is a security expert and entrepreneur. Amad has more than 25 years of experience in the security space, including extensive experience building products and customer-focused organizations across the globe. His entrepreneurial background and ability to identify market needs and turn them into technology strategies have enabled him to drive innovation to market throughout his career. Prior to founding Brinqa, Amad co-founded Vaau, which Sun Microsystems acquired in 2008.

Hilda has spent the last 30 years creating world-class enterprise applications targeting Fortune 2000 companies. A strong leader, she delivers agile and innovative technology and process solutions that secure and accelerate the business.

At Brinqa, Hilda oversees cybersecurity, IT, compliance, and cloud operations. Her strength is in bridging the gap between business solutions and technology with a proven ability to build successful organizations. 

Hilda’s experience includes building products that became top revenue generators in their market. Previously, at Sun Microsystems she led the identity and access management business worldwide, including all areas of engineering and offshore development. Hilda’s leadership and commitment to quality have enabled a successful career with startups such as Waveset Technologies, which was acquired by Sun, as well as established companies including Motorola, Tivoli/IBM, and Sun.

Will has more than 25 years of experience in enterprise software development. He has designed, developed and maintained software platforms for the world’s largest companies. At Brinqa, Will focuses on innovation that enables our cybersecurity solution to quantify risk across an organization’s entire attack surface at scale.

His telecom and identity management work has been instrumental in driving how S&P 500 businesses address these functions. Will’s passion is in data collection and analytics on large-scale distributed systems. Previously, at Arris, he designed and developed a data collection platform for millions of devices, processing nearly 8 billion requests per day.

Brian leads the construction of a solid financial and operating foundation upon which Brinqa can grow at scale. Prior to joining Brinqa, he advised and led companies through financings and strategic transactions in roles as an investment banker (Citi, JPMorgan predecessor), corporate development professional (Sun Microsystems, HP) and CFO (Aria Pharmaceuticals). In his spare time, Brian mentors startup founders, cycles, hikes and enjoys time with family.

Dimitri is a proven marketing leader who has built several disruptive, high-growth technology brands. He combines deep expertise in branding, demand generation, and messaging with infectious energy and leadership. At Brinqa, Dimitri is responsible for all aspects of marketing, including brand, demand generation, product marketing, customer marketing, PR and AR.

Prior to Brinqa, Dimitri was CMO at Devo, where he built the Devo brand and marketing organization from scratch and helped create more than $2B in market valuation. An advisor to several startups, Dimitri enjoys sailing or skiing with his wife and daughters in his free time.

As Chief Customer Officer, Gopal oversees Brinqa’s professional services, customer support, training, and customer success teams. As Brinqa continues to experience strong growth and customer adoption, Nagarajan focuses on scaling Brinqa’s customer-centric culture, while delivering a superior customer experience.

Prior to Brinqa, Nagarajan served as the Vice President of Worldwide Professional Services, Customer Support, and Customer Success at Neo4j. Nagarajan has also held Senior Vice President and Vice President positions at HealthEdge, Attivio, Aveksa, and OpenPages. In 2007, he co-founded Equilibrium Solutions Corp., a SaaS-based energy and sustainability management platform, and was the CEO before EnerNOC acquired it in 2009.

Over the last 25 years, Ron has built revolutionary software products and services for many of the world’s largest companies focused on analytics, cybersecurity, and managing IT assets. As senior vice president of engineering at Brinqa, he builds highly scalable teams to deliver best-in-class cybersecurity products.

Ron’s passion for building and scaling-up great engineering organizations has delivered SaaS and on-prem solutions for enterprise, government, and mid-market customers. Previously, he was SVP of product development at AlienVault. When AT&T acquired AlienVault in 2018 Ron led AT&T’s portfolio of cybersecurity products and solutions.

He lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife and two teenage daughters.

Mayuresh has more than 20 years of product management experience in enterprise security, networking and SaaS. At Brinqa, he is responsible for all aspects of product management, product strategy, user experience, and technology partnerships.

Prior to Brinqa, Mayuresh was the founding member of Zingbox, an IoT security company, where he built a category-defining solution in IoT security and saw the company from its inception to acquisition by Palo Alto Networks. Previously, he held several leadership positions at Aerohive Networks and Trend Micro, bringing to life enterprise security solutions for web, email, network virtualization, and cloud security.

Mayuresh is passionate about simplifying the complex and operates at the intersection of business, product management, and technology. He earned a master’s degree in industrial engineering from Clemson University and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.

Brian is a B2B enterprise technology expert with more than 20 years of experience building high-converting sales teams. He and his team are establishing Brinqa as a market leader by applying the proven expertise he developed while driving growth across the SaaS business unit at Solarwinds and building the commercial global sales team at Planview. 

Brian’s DNA is intrinsically aligned to accelerate growth and capitalize on market leadership. He previously held leadership roles at Solarwinds, Planview, Snaptrends, IDERA, Embarcadero, VMware, Dell, and Sheshunoff Consulting.

Brian loves family time and world-class fly fishing when he’s not busy reaching new company milestones.