Sandeep Johri
Born(1962-12-20)December 20, 1962
India
Alma materStanford University
Wayne State University
College of Engineering, Pune
OccupationCEO Checkmarx

Sandeep Johri (born December 20, 1962) is the current CEO of Checkmarx, an application security company. He is the former CEO of Tricentis, an IT testing software company.

Career

Johri joined Checkmarx in February of 2023 as CEO.

Before joining Checkmarx, Johri served as CEO at Tricentis since 2013.[1] And prior to that, served as the COO of Appcelerator, an open source mobile application development platform.

Previously, he was Vice President of Strategy and Industry Solutions at Hewlett-Packard, where he also served as Vice President of Corporate Development.

Johri was also instrumental in the formation of two startups, Determina and Bluelane, both of which were later acquired by VMware. Additionally, he was the CEO and founder of Oblix (acquired by Oracle), and co-founded eBoodle (now Shopzilla), one of the first ecommerce comparison shopping services.[2][3][4]

Johri was also responsible for HP's $4.5B acquisition of Mercury Interactive: the largest deal to date in software testing space.[3]

Biography

Johri was born in Gwalior, India on December 20, 1962. Johri has an MBA from Stanford University, a master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Wayne State University, Detroit, and a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pune, India.[2]

Johri has been involved as an advisor and investor in various startups in Silicon Valley and India, including Mayfield Fund, alphonso, Cenzic (acquired by Trustwave Holdings), Dhingana (acquired by Rdio), and Shopalize (acquired by 24/7 Customer).[5] Johri also served as co-chair staff on President Bill Clinton's National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council on issues related to the United States government's "Information Superhighway" initiative.[6]

He was inducted into the Wayne University Hall of Fame in 2012.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "The Forrester Wave: Modern Application Functional Test Automation Tools, Q4 2016". Forrester Research. 2016-12-05.
  2. 1 2 Bloomberg Profile on Tricentis"
  3. 1 2 "Ex-HP cloud VP joins Mayfield Fund" by Diana Samuels, Gigaom
  4. ↑ DevOps Chat: Continuous Testing with Sandeep Johri, CEO, Tricentis by Alan Shimel, DevOps.com, March 9, 2018]
  5. ↑ "Sandeep Johri back at Mayfield Fund with eye on big data, mobile" by Diana Samuels, Silicon Valley Business Journal
  6. ↑ "A Nation of Opportunity: Realizing the Promise of the Information Superhighway"
  7. ↑ "Wayne University Hall of Fame"
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