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Bobby Gupta

SVP & MD –
International Sales
& Corporate Development,
Virsec

“I joined Virsec even before the product was built and in a
matter of just 3 years we have seen its fast adoption with
our Government, Banking, Telco and large infrastructure
clients. We now have physical presence in 6 countries,
and our product is deployed in around 16
countries. We have plans to expand to 25
countries by end of 2021,” asserts Bobby.

Virsec as a cyber security company is
uniquely positioned to disrupt the application
aware workload protection industry. The
company has recently been awarded the
Hot Company in the application aware
workload protection category, Most
Innovative in cloud workload protection,
Hot Company in container security and
Best Product in runtime memory protection.

A startup Mentor –
another feather in his cap

Besides working for Virsec, Bobby wears
another hat as an advisor and consultant
to startups. He is engaged as a mentor and
as a board advisor to several startups in the
eld of cybersecurity, AI, Big Data, analytics
in the San Francisco Bay Area.
“So I am also an angel and seed investor,”
Bobby says with a twinkle in his eyes.

So where did this inspiration come from?

“Putting up in Silicon Valley has really inspired me of
what I do. This is the only place in the whole world
that has given rise to key innovators and industry
shapers, the likes of Steve Jobs (Apple), Elon Musk
(Tesla, Space X, Solar City), Redd Hastings (Netix)
and companies like Facebook, Google, Salesforce, HP,
Oracle etc have come up that later went on to change
the lifestyle of everyone.