Theom was founded by a team that has spent decades building and securing some of the world’s most demanding data systems—long before data security and governance became a board-level concern.
Our CEO, Navindra Yadav, COO, Ravi Sankuratri, and the theom team have designed and scaled foundational technologies at Google, Cisco, and Yahoo!, including Hadoop and BigQuery (enabled by Dremel, Colossus, Borg, and Jupiter, which they helped build). They also built Tetration Analytics, Cisco’s premier Cloud Application and Workload Protection Platform, available as an air-gapped appliance and SaaS. These systems supported petabyte-scale environments before “data mesh” or “AI-ready” were household terms.
Having lived through the complexity firsthand, they saw a future where data is the new perimeter—and where security and governance must follow the data, not the other way around.That vision became Theom: a platform purpose-built to secure, govern, and activate data across modern, federated environments without ever moving it. From GenAI pipelines to cloud warehouses to on-prem workloads, Theom provides a single control plane for real-time data security and compliance.
Together with a founding team whose backgrounds span enterprise software, AI infrastructure, and venture capital, they’ve assembled a company as technically bold as the problem it was built to solve.
As a former CEO, CISO, and CDO, Navindra has experienced the challenges of governing and protecting modern data and AI infrastructures, which led him to start Theom. Previously, he founded Tetration Analytics (acquired by Cisco). Earlier, as a founding engineer at Insieme (also acquired by Cisco), he developed the ACI switch fabric for data centers and the cloud. At Google, he built, governed, and protected Google’s data and network infrastructure. Navindra holds 425+ patents.
Ravi’s understanding of data infrastructure security and customer needs enables him to successfully implement and scale solutions. Previously, Ravi was a founding engineer at Tetration Analytics (acquired by Cisco). Earlier, Ravi held engineering leadership roles at Yahoo! and Sun Microsystems working on Hadoop and server technologies. Ravi holds patents in data and security inventions.
Farid brings to his role a diverse experience that includes AI, enterprise technologies, and venture capital. `Previously, Farid led business development at Labelbox, and Turbonomic (acquired by IBM). Earlier, Farid was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he supported enterprise investments. Prior to a16z, Farid spent over six years at Cisco in various product management roles.
Thomas Molloy is a seasoned sales leader with 10+ years in data and analytics. As employee #26 at Snowflake, he built the first outbound team, driving 70% of early revenue and earning top seller honors in 2015 and 2016. Now Head of Sales at Theom, he brings deep technical and go-to-market expertise to help organizations modernize data security and governance across rapidly scaling environments.
Danesh is a software engineer and researcher with deep domain knowledge in cybersecurity. He has designed and built applied ML systems. Previously, at Google, Danesh was a tech lead for Gmail Security and also led data science and machine learning for Google Cloud Security (Chronicle). Danesh has a Ph.D. in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology; his research focused on information security, and adversarial learning.
Theom is backed by leading VC firms, CISOs, CTOs, CDOs, angel investors, serial entrepreneurs, and passionate technologists who understand the complexity of securing data in the cloud. They believe in Theom's innovative approach to solving the security challenge and the team's track record in execution.
Our investors include:
We’re also proud to be supported by an exceptional group of CISOs, CTOs, CDOs, and technology operators who have lived the complexity of securing hyperscale data. Their conviction in Theom’s mission—and the founding team’s ability to execute—is a key part of what fuels our momentum.
