As President and CEO, Sumedh leads the company’s vision, strategic direction and implementation. He joined Qualys in 2003 in engineering and grew within the company, taking various leadership roles focused on helping Qualys deliver on its platform vision. From 2014 to 2021, he served as Qualys’ Chief Product Officer, where he oversaw all things product, including engineering, development, product management, cloud operations, DevOps, and customer support. A product fanatic and engineer at heart, he is a driving force behind expanding the platform from Vulnerability Management into broader areas of security and compliance, helping customers consolidate their security stack. This includes the rollout of the game-changing VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) that continually detects and prevents risk to their systems, Multi-Vector EDR, which focuses on protecting endpoints as well as Container Security, Compliance and Web Application Security solutions. Sumedh was also instrumental in the build-up of multiple Qualys sites resulting in a global 24x7 follow-the-sun product team.

Sumedh is a long-time proponent of SaaS and cloud computing. He previously worked at Intacct, a cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system. Sumedh has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from the University of Pune.

Eran Livne is director of Product Management for Endpoint Remediation at Qualys, leading a team tasked with helping customers improve their security posture through cross-platform vulnerability remediation. He has more than 20-years of product management and computer science experience working in diverse IT and security markets. In 2014, Eran founded mobile security company, LetMobile, acquired by Ivanti. Following the acquisition, he drove Ivanti's enterprise security and endpoint security and management solutions. Eran holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Tel Aviv University and an MBA in high-tech business administration from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

As Senior Vice President of Product Management, Shailesh leads the product management team and drives the Qualys product vision helping customers assess and improve their IT, security and compliance posture. Since joining Qualys in 2012, he has worked in various security and compliance roles driving innovative solutions, including remote endpoint protection, endpoint detection and response, and SaaS security. In addition, Shailesh headed engineering, research and product management for Qualys Policy Compliance and File Integrity Monitoring, where he helped customers go beyond compliance to drive their IT GRC objectives. Before Qualys, he focused on security research for Symantec ESM and Compliance solutions. Shailesh holds a master’s in computer applications (MCA) from the Vishwakarma Institute of Technology and has various security certifications including CISA, CRISC, CISM. He is also a regular speaker at industry conferences.

Kunal is currently VP of Product Management for the CyberSecurity Asset Management product line at Qualys HQ in Foster City, CA. He is Qualys boomerang. He worked at Qualys for 3 years in incubating the XDR product line from inception. Kunal has spent 15+ years working at startups, and big and mid-size companies in cybersecurity, networking, and application security in both product and engineering roles at Juniper Networks, Extreme Networks, Sun Microsystems and Infinera. Prior to re-joining Qualys, Kunal was heading products at series d startups in API security and bot management AppSec space.

Himanshu Kathpal is senior director of Product Management at Qualys. He has over 13 years of experience in cybersecurity and product management, with a specialization in vulnerability management, remediation, and next-generation endpoint security. Himanshu is passionate about developing security solutions that align with the company’s cybersecurity product strategy to meet customer needs, reduce the attack surface, and strengthen the organization’s security posture. He holds a master’s degree in engineering from D.Y.Patil University, Pune, as well as an MBA in International Business Management from NMIMS, Mumbai.

As Senior Director of Product Management, Sandeep Potdar leads product strategy and its execution for the Qualys VMDR product portfolio. He is an Engineer-turned-Architect-turned-PM, with close to 2 decades of experience in Enterprise Software and Cybersecurity domains and an extensive consulting experience in various Retail, Banking, Insurance, Travel, and Manufacturing Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Qualys, he led Platform and Product Management at Tenable. Before that, he led Product Management at WhiteHat Security and launched several Application Security products. Sandeep has a bachelor’s in computer science engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University, India and a certificate of business excellence from Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

Abaya is a group manager with Infosys and heads the Information Security Validation Function. Her career expands over two decades in Information Security comprising of vast areas including Vulnerability Management, Compliance Management, Application Security, Secure SDLC, Offensive Security, Security solutions evaluation, process building, evangelization and institutionalization of DevSecOps amongst others. Abaya is passionate about Vulnerability Analytics and its impact in the organization ecosystem, working on building processes and models that can bring about progressive improvements that result in continuous changes to achieve maturity in the system.

Ashish Bapana leads the Vulnerability Management program at LTIMindtree, bringing over 10 years of experience, with more than 7 years dedicated to cybersecurity. Throughout his career, Ashish has successfully implemented a wide range of cybersecurity technologies and processes, including SIEM, NAC, IPS/IDS, EDR, Vulnerability Management, MDM, Data Classification, and Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM).
Ashish holds key industry certifications:

• CISSP (ISC2)
• ISO27001:2022 Lead Auditor

Shantanu Bapna is a skilled Cybersecurity Engineer with over 2.5 years of experience at Adani Digital Labs. Specializing in Cloud Security, Container and Kubernetes Security, Web Application Security, and Vulnerability Management, Shantanu has developed and executed comprehensive security strategies to protect digital environments from emerging threats.
He began his cybersecurity journey as an intern at Adani Enterprises Ltd., conducting internal audits based on ISO 27001 and PCI DSS standards. Currently, as an Assistant Manager at Adani Digital Labs, he focuses on application security, infrastructure protection, penetration testing, and incident response. His expertise in securing cloud environments and Kubernetes clusters using CIS Benchmarks ensures a robust security posture across ADL’s infrastructure.
Shantanu’s certifications include:
eJPT – Junior Penetration Tester, INE
Certified Network Security Practitioner, SecOps Group
Qualys Certified Specialist VMDR
Shantanu’s dedication to cybersecurity and his leadership in cloud and application security make him a valuable speaker, offering insights into the rapidly evolving security landscape.

Lavish Jhamb is Solution Architect for Compliance Solutions at Qualys, focused on building security solutions such as ‘Custom Assessment and Response’ and ‘File Integrity Monitoring’ and helping customers assess and improve their security and compliance posture. He has over 7 years of experience working on security solutions, regulatory standards, and cyber security frameworks, with thorough understanding of operating systems. Lavish holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the Kurukshetra University Institute of Engineering and Technology and a Post Graduate Diploma in IT Infrastructure, Systems and Security from CDAC Pune.