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Chandar is EVP and Chief Product Officer at Mattermost, Inc. He was most recently a General Manager & Product Executive at Amazon Web Services, where he led product and engineering teams to launch new services for developers and enterprises, e.g., AWS Control Tower for cloud governance. Prior, he was Chief Product Officer at Druva, where he led the company’s product portfolio from initial launch to an industry-leading cloud data protection SaaS offering adopted by 4000+ enterprises. Previously, Chandar led product organizations at Intuit, MindTouch, and Yahoo!. Chandar holds an MBA from UC Berkeley, an M.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University, and a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from IIT Madras.

Ken is VP of Marketing at Mattermost, Inc. and has over 20 years of go-to-market (GTM) experience with developer tools and collaboration software. Ken comes to us from Semmle (acquired by GitHub), where he served as VP of Marketing and led the GTM for a code analysis platform used by developers and security researchers to find zero-days and automate variant analysis. Earlier in his career, Ken led marketing teams at Atlassian, including Product Marketing for Jira and Enterprise Marketing for Atlassian solutions, as the company grew to over 50,000 customers. Ken has a degree in Computer Science from the University of the Pacific, where he also captained the swim team and played water polo.

Aneal Vallurupalli is VP of Finance and Operations at Mattermost, Inc. Prior to joining Mattermost, Aneal was the Head of Strategic Finance at Mapbox, where he led the company’s $164M Series C round of funding from SoftBank. He also was a founding member of the Corporate Development team at Guidewire (NYSE:GWRE), helping to grow it from an $800 million to a $7 billion public company. He began his career in technology as an investment banker at Union Square Advisors, completing a range of public and private M&A transactions including buy-side, sell-side, corporate divestitures, and private placements. Aneal graduated from Santa Clara University, where he played Division I tennis. He serves on the Board of Directors for The Saint Francis Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that benefits Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and the Tenderloin community.

Chris Overton is VP of Engineering at Mattermost, Inc. He spent his early career in the security space, working with startups in the anti-spyware, encryption, content filtering, and anti-virus spaces. He’s built software for mobile, PC, Mac, web applications, servers, and hardware appliances. Chris’ last several roles have focused on the public and hybrid cloud. Specifically, Chris has had a focus on building and operating public SaaS services, distributed systems, analytics/processing of large data sets, and search. Chris comes to Mattermost from Elastic, where he served as VP of Engineering and was responsible for the Cloud product division.