Subbu Sthanu
As the Chief Commercial Officer at leading VPN provider IPVanish, Subbu Sthanu leads the product, marketing, customer support, and business development teams. During his three years with the company, he has also overseen Ziff Davis’s other security products, including SugarSync and Livedrive.
Before holding this position, Subbu was a senior leader for industry-leading enterprise security providers such as IBM and RSA. He also played a vital role as an executive for high-growth ventures like Idera and BeyondTrust. Subbu was even responsible for driving the strategy that made Trustwave named as the leader in the Forrester Wave for Managed Security Service Providers.
Subbu also co-founded two security and privacy startups during his 28-year career in the cybersecurity industry. One was Skyflow, whose goal is to solve the world’s ever-growing data privacy problems with simple and elegant vaults. The other was ClearedIn, which provides phishing protection for popular B2B software platforms running from file sharing to messaging.
Today, Subbu also serves as an advisor for Security.org, helping our team to publish premier digital security reviews, guides, and other resources.
Subbu sits on the board of directors of the Internet Infrastructure Coalition, which ensures the public has a voice in how the Internet’s infrastructure is built.