Leadership
Paul Stich
President and Chief Executive Officer
Paul Stich brings more than 25 years of successful leadership in driving dramatic revenue growth at startup, mid-size, and large companies. Before taking the helm at Dasient, Stich was Vice President of Global Telecommunication Solutions at McAfee.
Before McAfee, he served as President and CEO of Counterpane Internet Security, the leading managed security services firm worldwide. During his tenure, he and his team expanded the service offerings, developed a new go-to-market strategy, and significantly grew revenue for six consecutive years. After Counterpane was acquired by British Telecom in 2006, Stich managed the successful integration of Counterpane into BT Global Services.
Earlier, he was the co-founder, President, and CEO of Groundswell, a premier Internet consulting firm, growing the company from three to 230 people and opening offices across the U.S. Stich also served as Vice President of Global Services at IBM, ultimately responsible for the telecommunications, media, entertainment, and utility industries for North and South America, and he spent over a decade at KMPG as a Partner in charge of building the firm's national telecommunications practice.
Stich earned a bachelor's degree in Economics from Saint Mary's College of California and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame Graduate School of Business.
Neil Daswani
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Neil Daswani is responsible for Dasient's long-term product vision and strategy. A highly regarded Internet technology expert, Daswani has served in a variety of research, development, teaching, and managerial roles at Google, Stanford University, DoCoMo USA Labs, Yodlee, and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies).
Daswani's areas of expertise include security, wireless data technology, and peer-to-peer systems. He has published extensively in these areas, frequently gives talks at industry and academic conferences, and has been granted several U.S. patents. He is also the author of Foundations of Security: What Every Programmer Needs to Know, which teaches new and current software professionals state-of-the-art software security design principles, methodology, and concrete programming techniques they need to build secure software systems. While at Stanford, he co-founded the Stanford Center for Professional Development's Software Security Certification Program, which has become an important tool for educating software programmers, architects, developers, engineers, IT managers, chief information officers (CIOs), and chief security officers (CSOs) about security issues and designing secure programs.
Daswani earned a bachelor's degree in computer science with honors with distinction from Columbia University and a master's degree and Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.
Ameet Ranadive
Co-Founder and VP of Products
Ameet Ranadive leads Dasient's product management, marketing, and business development activities. He has spent more than 10 years working in product management, sales, and business development for several venture-backed startup companies in web services, infrastructure software, and digital media.
Ranadive was one of the early employees at Yodlee, a provider of secure online banking solutions to the financial services industry. He began his career as an engineer at Hewlett-Packard and later worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co., where he focused on high-tech growth strategy for the IT infrastructure and services markets.
Ranadive received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the Mayfield Fellow and Price Fellow awards for entrepreneurial excellence.
Shariq Rizvi
Co-Founder and VP of Engineering
Shariq Rizvi leads Dasient's engineering team that builds and runs the company's scalable infrastructure. Prior to Dasient, he was a key engineer on Google's Webserver (GWS) team, the front end to Google Search. While at Google, Rizvi also led engineering for the Google calculator product and was part of the team behind the Google AppEngine, a scalable platform on which web application developers can deploy their applications. He led the project that added SSL support into AppEngine.
Rizvi earned a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and a master's degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also pursuing his Ph.D. in computer science on a UC fellowship before taking a leave of absence. During his time at IIT Bombay and UC Berkeley, he published a number of research papers in the area of scalable data management.
Harnish Patel
VP of Sales
Harnish Patel is responsible for sales of Dasient's product services worldwide. A seasoned international executive, Patel excels at building and managing world-class sales and marketing teams, and he has gained a deep understanding of the key functions and processes crucial to the success of technology companies.
Patel joined Dasient from McAfee Inc., the world's largest dedicated security technology company, where he held sales, marketing, and business development Vice President positions. During his 25-year career, he also has earned executive-level sales, relationship management, and marketing experience with major organizations in the U.S. and U.K., including IBM, Sun Microsystems, Secure Computing (acquired by McAfee in 2008), SurfControl, Nuance, and Quadriga.
Patel earned bachelor's (with honors) and master's degrees in computer science from London University; an MBA from the Manchester Business School (U.K.) and Kenan-Flager Business School (U.S.); a diploma in marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing; and a diploma in accounting and finance from Westminster University. He is a member of the Association of Certified Accountants and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Dasient, the leader in Web anti-malware technology, envisions an Internet that is safe and malware-free for users and online businesses. Dasient protects the websites of leading financial services, e-commerce, media, web hosting and other global enterprises from losses of data, revenue and reputation caused by web-based malware attacks. Furthermore, Dasient's adaptive security intelligence re-defines Internet security by scanning the expanses of the Web and harnessing the power of data to mount defenses against future malware attacks.