About the IAPP

Sudhakar Ramakrishna is President and Chief Executive Officer of SolarWinds, a leading provider of IT management software, and has nearly 25 years of experience across cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. He most recently served as the CEO of Pulse Secure®, a leading provider of secure and zero trust access solutions for Hybrid IT environments. Prior to Pulse Secure, Ramakrishna served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Enterprise and Service Provider Division at Citrix. Ramakrishna also served in senior leadership roles at Polycom, Motorola and 3Com. Ramakrishna earned a master’s degree in computer science from Kansas State University and a master’s of management degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.