THE TEAM

Purandar Das is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sotero. Throughout his career, he has focused on leveraging technology to solve complex business challenges.

His pragmatic approach enables world-class organizations to innovate and gain a competitive edge through new products and business lines that have added to their top line.

Purandar co-founded Sotero with the conviction that today’s data protection is deficient and that a better approach is needed to detect and stop attacks that exfiltrate data in real time. He is a firm believer that security, where the core focus is not the data, is not a viable option.

Most recently, Purandar served as CTO at Infogroup. Prior to Infogroup, Purandar was the CTO at Epsilon, where he led the Digital Solutions organization. He has held leadership & management roles at a variety of organizations. Purandar is a graduate of Texas A&M University (MS – Mechanical Engineering) and Bangalore University (BS – Mechanical Engineering).

Shanthi Boppana is Sotero’s Co-founder and CTO, overseeing the company’s technology development.

Shanthi has held several senior technology positions throughout her career built innovative analytical solutions on a broad range of modern platforms. Before Co-founding Sotero she worked as Vice President of Big Data and Analytics at Infogroup where she was responsible for modernizing legacy platforms and re-architecting applications to leverage Cloud Computing.

Previously, Shanthi worked at a startup Syncra Systems where she architected the Value Chain Collaboration Platform which was acquired by Oracle in 2005. Shanthi also led the mobile advertising and data analytics platform at Nokia. She earned an M.S degree in Engineering Science from LSU.