Jun 25, 2021

Gaurav Banga is the Founder and CEO of Balbix, and serves on the
boards of several companies. Before Balbix, Gaurav was the
Co-founder & CEO of Bromium and led the company from inception
for over 5 years. Earlier in his career, he served in various
executive roles at Phoenix Technologies and Intellisync
Corporation, and was Co-founder and CEO of PDAapps, acquired by
Intellisync in 2005. Dr. Banga started his industry career at
NetApp. Gaurav has a PhD in CS from Rice University, and a B.Tech.
in CS from IIT Delhi. He is a prolific inventor with over 70
patents.

In this OODAcast we talk to Gaurav about things his clients tell
him are their most important priorities and gain insights modern
technologists and business leaders can use to mitigate the growing
cyber threats to businesses. We also examine Gaurav’s views on the
importance of mentors and get specific advice on how to find and
leverage the right talent in a startup environment.

As CEO of Balbix, Gaurav leads a team focused on providing
organizations with comprehensive real-time views into breach risk.
This is a daunting challenge but by applying an extensive array of
well engineered AI and ML algorithms and well thought out
architectures and visualizations (integrated into the workflow of
decision-makers at all levels), they have met the challenge in new
and very virtuous ways. For more on Balbix see: Balbix

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