Cloudmark

SAN FRANCISCO—September 14, 2009—Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced the appointment of Chandra Tekwani as vice president of mobile operations. Tekwani brings more than 19 years of mobile industry experience to his position at Cloudmark. He will be responsible for product strategy, architecture, product management and go-to-market efforts for Cloudmark’s mobile carrier business.

 

“Chandra’s long and distinguished track record in the mobile industry makes him an invaluable addition to our executive team,” said Hugh McCartney, CEO of Cloudmark. “He will be a key contributor as we build upon our momentum in the mobile market to effectively safeguard operators worldwide against mobile messaging attacks and threats.”

 

Prior to joining Cloudmark, Tekwani founded Core Mobile Networks, Inc. where he focused on the secure delivery of cloud-based enterprise applications to smart phones over 2G, 3G and 4G wireless networks. Tekwani also provided consulting services in the areas of WiMAX and 4G wireless core networking, mobile security, security in virtualized environments and IMS-based-FMC. He served as a solutions consultant to HarrisStratex Networks for end-to-end solution design for 4G wireless broadband for consumers and enterprises, voice-over-IP and video-on-demand services, including seamless integration into existing 3G networks.

 

Tekwani also worked as consulting vice president for strategy, product management and partnerships for WiMAX infrastructure vendor Telsima. Prior to that, Tekwani served as vice president and head of Mobile & Convergence Marketing & Partnerships at Juniper Networks, which included IMS-based fixed mobile convergence and mobile carrier solution management, marketing and partnerships. Tekwani joined Juniper Networks as part of the company’s acquisition of NetScreen in 2004. At NetScreen, Tekwani started the Mobile Carrier Security business and managed the Alliances Program for Service Provider and Enterprise Business. Prior to NetScreen, he worked as director of engineering for security products at Nokia. During a career spanning nearly 20 years in the industry, Tekwani also held positions at Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, AT&T Bell Labs and Unisys.

 

“Operators are struggling with network security as they battle unprecedented abuse and sophisticated mobile messaging attacks,” said Tekwani. “Cloudmark is uniquely positioned to help them effectively combat these threats while reducing the cost and infrastructure burden that mobile threats are placing on their networks. I look forward to working with Cloudmark to help these operators reach new levels of security and customer satisfaction.”

 

Tekwani holds a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from IIT Roorkee, India, a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Warwick UK and a certificate in business management from the University of California. He holds a patent for a system and method for public key infrastructure-based software licensing and has four pending applications for systems to securely deliver cloud services to mobile handsets.