Sudhakar Ramakrishna, Austin, Texas, has served as president and chief executive officer of SolarWinds since January 2021. He is a global technology leader with 25 years of experience across cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. Previously, Ramakrishna served as CEO of PulseSecure, a leading provider of secure and zero trust access solutions for Hybrid IT environments. Ramakrishna also served in high level leadership roles at Citrix, Polycom, Inc., Motorola, Inc., 3Com Corporation and U.S. Robotics.

Ramakrishna is an experienced public and private company board member and is currently on the board of Cardinal Health and Model-N. He is a partner at Benhamou Global Ventures, a leading venture capital firm investing in emerging startups in the fields of security, analytics and applications. Ramakrishna earned a master’s degree in computer science from K-State in 1991 and a master’s of management degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.