Leadership

A die-hard San Francisco 49ers fan in spite of their recent struggles, Karthik Krishnan is Vice President, Product Management at Embrane where he is responsible for defining the product strategy and direction of the company’s virtualized network services solutions. He brings to Embrane expertise in networking, security and enterprise software, and has most recently focused his attention on virtualization and cloud computing.  Karthik has a proven track record of success in creating, launching and managing product lines in brand new as well as emerging categories and driving them to market leadership.

Prior to joining Embrane, Karthik was a Senior Director, Product Management at PGP Corporation (acquired by Symantec). At PGP, Karthik was responsible for product management for their entire range of encryption (disk, file, email) and key management products.  During his tenure, Karthik helped rebuild the product management team and shaped the product strategy to incorporate emerging trends in collaboration / virtualization/ cloud computing.

Before PGP, Karthik was a Director, Product Management at Juniper Networks, responsible for defining the product direction, driving customer engagements and partner strategy for Juniper’s access solutions product lines in the security products group. During his time at Juniper, Karthik helped grow the business from US$60M to US$200M, driving all of the products to #1 or #2 in market share in their respective segments. In addition, Karthik drove Juniper's entry into the emerging network access control (NAC) category and took the product line from initial launch to market leadership in a span of three years.

Karthik began his career at Intel Corporation where he managed the competitive marketing program and was part of the company’s Microprocessor Design Group, successfully developing and launching Intel's first Celeron microprocessor.

Krishnan holds a bachelors degree in Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management, where he was an F.C. Austin Scholar.

When not tethered to his laptop or iPhone, he likes to spend time with his wife and young daughter and traveling to interesting locations around the world. His travels have taken him to Venezuela, Kenya, Peru among others.

Tom Nosella is Embrane’s Chief Strategy Officer and only “canuck” on the executive team. As CSO, Tom is responsible for providing expertise in the development and implementation of Embrane’s technologies and architectures as they relate to current and future market opportunities.   Tom has more than 18 years of experience in data center architecture, large-scale networks, and Internet service provider network engineering.

Prior to joining Embrane, Tom spent 11 years at Cisco Systems.  He was most recently Sr. Director of Engineering within the Data Center Switching Business Unit, an organization responsible for LAN, HPC server fabric, and storage switching products and solutions.  Tom enjoyed leading a highly skilled team of engineers responsible for the creation, validation, and promotion of intelligent and scalable data center designs and solutions for Cisco’s enterprise and service provider customer base. 

Tom was also one of the initial members of Andiamo Systems where was instrumental in driving the product architecture and the adoption of solutions based on the newly minted MDS 9000 Family of SAN switching products.  This effort helped drive Cisco into a leadership position within the storage networking market.  Prior to working on storage networking at Cisco, Tom led enterprise solution design teams focused on large-scale Ethernet design, server farm design, and content delivery networking.  Tom holds five issued U.S. patents in data center networking technology.

Tom started his career at Bell Canada in Ottawa, where he served as Director of Engineering, leading a network engineering team responsible for the design, rollout, and management of large-scale national routed networks.

Tom resides in West Vancouver, BC.  When not heavily immersed in technology or sitting in seat 22A, Tom thoroughly enjoys spending time with his young family growing up in the great white north. Tom is also an avid woodworker, gardener, and photographer, although having much less time for these activities now with a growing family and exciting new role.

Tom earned his Bachelor of Engineering and Management from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.  He is also a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) #1395 having been certified since 1995.