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FRANCISCO, May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Asato.ai, the
startup pioneering a Business Observability Solution for CIOs has
announced that tech veterans Lip-Bu Tan and Kumar Sreekanti have
joined as board members.
Asato.ai announced that tech veterans
Lip-Bu Tan and Kumar Sreekanti have joined as board members
Lip-Bu Tan is Founder and
Chairman of Walden International, a leading venture capital firm
managing cumulative capital commitments of greater than
$4 billion; and Founding Managing
Partner of Celesta Capital and Walden Catalyst Ventures. Mr. Tan
formerly served as Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman
of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. He serves on the boards of
several public companies like Intel Corporation, Schneider Electric
SE and Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd. and serves on
the board of trustees at schools like the Carnegie Mellon University and the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, he
served as a director of several public companies, including
SoftBank Group Corp., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, Advanced
Micro-Fabrication Equipment Inc. (AMEC), and Flextronics
International Ltd.
Mr. Tan has four decades of experience investing in and building
innovative technology companies. His investment spans across
multiple layers in the AI stack and focuses on founders that not
only promise value to end customers but also have a track record of
delivering results.
"I've been associated with the Asato founding team for over
ten years and I'm thrilled to continue that association by joining
Asato's board," said Lip-Bu Tan. "I believe the team
at Asato and the platform they're developing has the potential
to revolutionize the way CIOs navigate the dynamic and
ever-changing technology landscape of IT."
"Lip-Bu has been a sounding board and a trusted advisor for over
a decade to Anush and I. I'm proud and excited to have him join our
Board. With his wealth of knowledge across diverse industries,
Lip-Bu will play a pivotal role in assisting us as we tackle the
challenges our customers, particularly CIOs, encounter in their
quest to make strategic decisions that optimize software, hardware,
and business assets, and drive transformative outcomes,"
said Sundari Mitra, co-founder and CEO of Asato.
Kumar Sreekanti serves as Venture Partner at Atlantic Bridge
Capital. He served as Chief Technology Officer & Head of
Software at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Mr. Sreekanti joined
HPE through the acquisition of BlueData, where he was co-founder
and CEO. Prior to BlueData, he was vice president of R&D at
VMware where he was responsible for Storage and Availability in the
Cloud Infrastructure Business Unit. His responsibilities included
VSAN, Virtual Volumes, Virtual Flash, Virtual Storage Appliance,
SRM (Site Recovery Manager), High Availability, SMP-FT and Virtual
Storage Fabric.
Before VMware, he was the founding CEO and CTO of Agami Systems,
a high-performance, distributed NAS company.
Mr. Sreekanti focuses on advising and investing in companies
pioneering cutting-edge technologies in disruptive markets.
"I'm thrilled to join Asato's board as they embark on their
vision of delivering a mission control platform for the CIOs," said
Kumar Sreekanti. "They are pioneering the use of GenAI and
LLM-powered agents specifically targeting CIOs to craft a
world-class enterprise business observability platform."
"It is truly an honor to welcome Kumar to Asato's Board of
Directors," said Anush Mohandass,
co-founder and CPO of Asato. "Kumar has decades of experience in
big data, cloud computing, and scaling software and a proven track
record of helping companies reach their full potential and I am
confident he will elevate Asato.AI as we work on delivering a
next-gen business observability platform for the CIOs."
About Asato.ai
Asato's Business Observability Platform helps CIOs and their
teams to see, understand, and optimize their enterprise's software,
hardware and business assets to drive meaningful business outcomes.
The platform integrates data, insights, and decision-making
workflows into a single cognitive layer. This layer, accessible
through LLM-powered AI agents, serves as the mission control for
CIO teams, empowering them to achieve operational excellence.
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