Honoured to Introduce

Pervez Sikora

Serial Entrepreneur & Technology Executive Tigera Inc.

Global Leadership & Transformation Community
New York Chapter

Seasoned Customer Success leader with experience in both early and late stage high-growth startups. I combine my operational expertise and technical background with customer satisfaction, retention and expansion strategies to implement programs that build strong customer engagement. I have built teams and worked with customers around the globe.

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Expertise

Start-ups

Business Strategy

Strategy

Digital Media

Strategic Planning

Entrepreneurship

Experience

Vice President, Services & Customer Success
Tigera, Inc.
Jul 2018 - Present .
Senior Vice President - Global Services & Customer Success
Actifio
Aug 2014 - Jul 2018 .
Chief Technology Officer
ImpreMedia
Sep 2011 - Jun 2014 . 2 Years 10 Months
Founder and Chief Operating Officer
Ad2Pro Media Solutions
Aug 2006 - Sep 2011 . 5 Years 2 Months
Director of Advertising Technology
Los Angeles Times
Jul 2001 - Mar 2006 . 4 Years 9 Months
Principal and Founder
Strategic Systems
Jan 1995 - Jun 2000 . 5 Years 6 Months
Programming Manager
Dunn-Edwards
Jan 1988 - Apr 1991 . 3 Years 4 Months

Academic details

University:

University of Southern California

Degree:

M.S.

Specialization:

Computer Engineering

Year:

1988

University:

Osmania University

Degree:

B.E.

Specialization:

Software engineering and technology

Year:

1986

Products

Calico Open Source

Delivers Kubernetes networking and security for cloud-native applications More Info

Calico Cloud

Pay-as-you-go SaaS platform for Kubernetes security and observability. Get a live view of dependencies and how all the services are communicating with each other in a multi-cluster, hybrid and multi-cloud environment. Eliminate setup and onboarding steps and troubleshoot your Kubernetes security and observability issues within minutes. More Info

Calico Enterprise

Calico Enterprise is the only Kubernetes security and observability platform that provides a common, unified security model that works across hybrid or multi-cloud configurations, on any cloud, any Kubernetes distribution, VM and bare metal More Info

Calico Product Editions

Kubernetes security and observability for multi-cluster, multi-cloud, and hybrid cloud deployments More Info

Pay-as-you-go SaaS

Usage-based pricing and annual subscription available More Info

Services

Egress Access Controls

Calico Enterprise and Calico Cloud include several features that enable fine-grained egress access controls to applications and resources outside of a cluster More Info

Microsegmentation

Deploy a scalable, unified microsegmentation model and security policy framework that works across all your environments: hosts, VMs, containers, and Kubernetes More Info

Audit and Compliance

Continuously monitor and enforce compliance controls, easily create custom reports for audit More Info

Observability and Troubleshooting

Identify and resolve performance issues, connectivity breakdown, anomalous behavior and security policy violations between namespaces, microservices, and pods in real time More Info

Unified Control

Centralized multi-cluster approach to Kubernetes security and observability across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments running multiple Kubernetes distributions and data planes. More Info

High-Availability Kubernetes

Calico Enterprise dual top-of-rack (ToR) peering provides a redundant, active-active network path for customers with business-critical cluster applications that cannot tolerate service downtime or failure, and require high availability More Info

Shift-Left Security

Automatically create workflows that enable security policies to be safely defined, validated, and deployed in a self-service environment More Info

Tigera partners

Working together to provide Kubernetes security and observability More Info

Social Cause

Probono Consultant - Taproot Foundation

Provide business strategy, advisory and consulting services to non-profit organizations in Los Angeles. Projects included strategic planning for Grades of Green, development of annual report for Tzu Chi Medical Foundation and development of a 5-year strategic plan for ACLU SoCal. Currently working with Friends of the LA River to help them develop an impact report.

Vice President of Board - Housing Rights Center

Served as a member and Vice President of the board for a non-profit that provides legal, outreach and education services related to housing discrimination.

Grant Review Committee - McCormick Tribune Foundation

Served as a member of the grant review committee for McCormick Tribune Foundation. Responsible for reviewing grant applications, conducting site visits and making grant recommendations.