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Nile names Srinivas Kavuri as Chief Development Officer

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Srinivas Kavuri has left his role as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Zscaler to join Nile as Chief Development Officer.

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Nile has appointed Srinivas Kavuri as Chief Development Officer. He joins from Zscaler, where he was Senior Vice President of Engineering. Kavuri will report to Chief Executive Officer Pankaj Patel and lead Nile's global engineering organisation. He is expected to help scale the company's technology as businesses reassess older network architectures and security models. He brings more than 25 years of experience across networking, security and cloud software. Before Zscaler, he held senior roles at Cisco, Veritas Technologies, Mobile Iron and CommVault Systems. At Zscaler, Kavuri most recently led development of a platform designed to unify multiple cloud services. That background aligns with Nile's effort to simplify network operations and strengthen security in enterprise environments. Engineering focus The appointment underscores Nile's continued focus on product development as networking suppliers respond to rising demand for systems that are easier to manage and less dependent on legacy hardware. Nile sells networking as a service and has built its business around combining network access with a security model based on zero trust principles. Across the sector, companies have been trying to persuade customers to replace fragmented networking estates with centrally managed services delivered through software and cloud infrastructure. That shift has also intensified...

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Srinivas KavuriSenior Vice President of Engineering

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