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About
Mahesh Babu is a Field CISO and Chief Evangelist at Kodem, a role he has held for the past year, where he serves as a technical liaison to the field and represents customer perspectives to the Product and Engineering teams. His background spans cybersecurity practice areas including identity, application security, and data loss prevention. At Kodem, he is developing the company's Developer Relations, Security Relations, and post-sale Security Forward Deployed Engineering functions while also leading the Marketing organization.
Field CISO at Kodem
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Experience
- KodemCISOcurrent2026 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- KodemCMOcurrent2024 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- SSR AdvisorsFounder & Managing Partnercurrent2026 — presentDanville, CA
- AKA IdentityAngel Investorcurrent2022 — present
- Self EmployedProduct Marketingcurrent2021 — presentDanville, CA
- ServiceNowDirector, Pricing Strategy2022 — 2024San Francisco Bay Area
- Contrast SecuritySenior Director, Head Of Product Marketing2020 — 2022San Francisco Bay Area
- Contrast SecurityGM & Director of Product, RASP2018 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
- Contrast SecurityDirector, Head of Product Marketing2018 — 2020Los Altos, California, United States
- Contrast SecurityProduct Marketing Manager2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
- RemediantSenior Director & Head of Product Marketing2020 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
- SymantecManager - Pricing Strategy & Operations2015 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
- Strategy&, part of the PwC network (formerly Booz & Company)Associate2014 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
- ReverbNationAdvertising Product Strategy Intern2013Durham, NC
- Booz & CompanySummer Associate2013Greater Chicago Area
- HSBCVP - Data Privacy2011 — 2012Mettawa, IL
- HSBCVP Information Security and Risk2008 — 2011Mettawa, IL
- DeloitteSecurity and Privacy Services Consultant2007 — 2008
- Ernst & YoungSecurity & Technology Solutions Intern2005
Skills & more
Go-to-Market Strategy7Enablement4Product Launch3Campaign Strategies1Enterprise Software1CommunicationCloud ComputingMarket ResearchCross-functional Team LeadershipMarketing CommunicationsCase StudiesPresentations
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BriefsSales EnablementPositioning (Marketing)Competitive IntelligenceProgram ManagementStrategyManagementInformation Security ManagementInformation SecuritySecurityIT StrategyProject Management- Introductory Sommelier Course — Court of Master Sommeliers, Americas
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) — ISACA
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- Who is Mahesh Babu?
- Mahesh Babu is a Field CISO and Chief Evangelist at Kodem, a role he has held for the past year, where he serves as a technical liaison to the field and represents customer perspectives to the Product and Engineering teams. His background spans cybersecurity practice areas including identity, application security, and data loss prevention. At Kodem, he is developing the company's Developer Relations, Security Relations, and post-sale Security Forward Deployed Engineering functions while also leading the Marketing organization.
- Where does Mahesh Babu work?
- Mahesh Babu is Field CISO at Kodem.
- Where did Mahesh Babu go to school?
- Mahesh Babu studied at Duke University - The Fuqua School of Business (Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Health/Health Care Administration/Management); Purdue University (MS, Information Security); Purdue University (BS, Computer Science and Mathematics).
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Also attended Purdue University466
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Shared employers
Also worked at Symantec208
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Also worked at Strategy&, part of the PwC network (formerly Booz & Company)202
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