Prior to joining Aveksa, Vaishnavi served as Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for BMC's $1.6 billion Enterprise Service Management (ESM) business and was responsible for driving global marketing strategy and field operations for the company's solutions and services business across the globe. Previous to BMC, Vaishnavi served as Chief Marketing Officer at BladeLogic. During Vaishnavi's tenure, BladeLogic grew over 100 percent year over year where he played a key role in transforming the company from its start-up stages to its successful initial public offering (IPO) in 2007 and ultimately its $800 million acquisition by BMC Software. Before BladeLogic, Vaishnavi was a principal at Rishisoft, an IT management consulting firm advising Fortune 500 executives on IT operations process and cost control strategies. Prior to Rishisoft, Vaishnavi was a founding member at Opticom, a business service analytics software company, where he drove product marketing and corporate development. Previous to Rishisoft, Vaishnavi drove product management and strategy at Aprisma Management Technologies, a subsidiary of Cabletron Systems that was acquired by Computer Associates.
Vaishnavi has been awarded six patents in the U.S. and internationally for his work in IT management software systems. He holds a BSEE from IIT India, an MSCE from the University of Massachusetts, and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from Boston University School of Management.
