Deep industry expertise and the ability to think on a global scale is the unifying element among eIQnetworks senior leadership team:
Vijay Basani – Co-Founder, President & CEO
Vijay is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of building successful businesses delivering enterprise-class solutions. Before starting eIQnetworks, he founded AppIQ, an application storage resource management provider acquired by Hewlett Packard in October 2005, and WebManage Technologies, a policy-driven content delivery solution provider acquired by Network Appliance in August 2000. Vijay’s experience includes senior executive positions in the financial industry at Spencer Trask Securities and Josephthal Lyon & Ross. Vijay is the co-owner of five patents for the architecture and design of the WebManage Content Delivery system, Adaptive Policy Engine and SLA Management. He earned a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electronics and instrumentation plus his MBA and post MBA degrees from Baruch College in New York.
Christina M. Lattuca - VP of Finance
Christina joined eIQnetworks in 2009 as corporate controller. She has over 15 years of financial management expertise developing and implementing financial planning, controls and reporting for high technology companies. Previously, she served Ecora Software Corporation (acquired by Versata, Inc.) as director of finance. She played an instrumental role in the company’s acquisition, actively contributing to investor meetings and preparing financial due diligence documents. She has held positions as manager of financial planning and analysis for Cedar Point Communications, Segue Software (acquired by Borland Software) and Network Plus Corporation (acquired by Broadview Networks) responsible for the development of company forecasts, long-range planning, annual operating plans and management reporting. Also at Cedar Point, she is credited with developing and implementing a company-wide budget process resulting in a consistent approach in development of annual plans and performance monitoring. She has also held other financial positions at Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New England and Universal Packaging Corporation. Christina holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Franklin Pierce College.
John Sullivan – EVP Sales and Marketing & COO
John is responsible for worldwide sales and marketing at eIQnetworks, Inc. He brings more than 25 years of experience in enterprise software sales and sales management. From 2009 to 2010, John served was Vice President of North American Sales for Micro Focus, a $100M+ business unit. From 2007 to mid 2009 John served as eIQ's SVP of Sales where he delivered more than 50% revenue growth each year. At Segue Software, as Vice President of worldwide sales, John lead the Company to its acquisition by Borland Software in 2006 for $110 million. In 2005, John was instrumental in building Pedestal Software prior to its acquisition by Altiris for $75 million. John successfully built sales organizations at both Mathworks and Empirix. John has a BA in Finance from Providence College.
Jay Reddy – Co-Founder, GM
A technology industry veteran, Jay brings over 18 years of operational and engineering experience to eIQ. Jay co-founded and served as VP of Operations for WebManage Technologies and founded Hyperzine Communications, a leading photography, video and consumer electronics magazine acquired by Photo HiWay in 1999. Jay also had a wide range of responsibilities at Hachette Filipacchi Magazines. Jay earned an MBA and Masters in Communication and Protocol Analysis from the University of New Haven, Connecticut.
Rob Aragao – Vice President, Services
Rob has over 10 years experience in the IT industry. He led Pedestal Software’s worldwide security management division, helping to establish the company as a leader in the Security Configuration Management area and ultimately to a $75 million acquisition by Altiris in 2005. Rob has a proven track record working with the Fortune 1000 and agencies of the federal government and building strategic relationships with business partners. Rob held leadership roles with Genuity, a leading Managed Services Provider, and Stream International. Rob earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems and Business Management from Bryant University and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
John Linkous – Vice President, Chief Security and Compliance Officer
John brings more than 15 years of technology management and consulting experience specializing in enterprise systems management, information security and regulatory compliance to help professionals in all sectors understand the value of eIQ solutions. Prior to joining eIQ, he was Vice President of Operations at NSC, an international security and compliance consulting firm, where John was responsible for developing and implementing NSC’s Common Compliance Framework (CCF) product line and the company’s security and compliance services portfolio. He was a co-founder and partner of a national IT consulting firm and a CIO of The Widmeyer Group, one of the nation’s largest privately-held public relations firms. John began his career as an award-winning consultant at NASA, where he was the recipient of Goddard Space Flight Center’s individual “Contractor of the Year” award in 1994. John holds a BA degree in History and English from the University of Maryland and maintains many industry technical certifications.
Chris Blando – VP of Strategic Alliances
Chris brings 19 years of partner management experience with technology companies, delivering consistent results. A proven track record in channel growth, business development strategy and building sales teams, he joined eIQnetworks from BigFix, acquired by IBM,where he was the senior director of channel sales for six years. While at BigFix, he grew channel sales over 300% year over year. Previously, he held senior channel management positions for Zone Labs, Inc. where he developed and managed the company’s initial partner program for its enterprise security suite. Chris spent 12 years at Computer Associates (now CA Technologies) where his positions included vice president of security channels and vice president of national partner accounts where he developed strategic partnerships and executive relationships with key system integrators in North America. He holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration and marketing from St. John’s University, New York.
Sridhar Alla - CTO
Sridhar has more than 12 years of software design and development experience at both the system level and application level. He is responsible for developing and implementing eIQnetworks situational awareness platform and for the roadmap. He specializes in information retrieval, databases, distributed programming, network and host security, network programming and is also skilled in Unix and Windows platforms. He joined eIQnetworks in 2004 as a principal software engineer and later served as chief architect for the company. Previously, he worked in engineering at Network Appliance, Inc and Webmanage Technologies. Sridhar holds a Bachelor of Technology in computer science from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad, India.
