A Technology expert coupled with strong business acumen – Hemal Patel SVP IT and Operations, Sophos

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Bengaluru, March 21, 2016: Hemal Patel is a successful serial Entrepreneur and a Technology Executive with diverse skills and management experience, including general, sales, marketing, design, development and financial management. Under Hemal’s leadership and strategic direction Cyberoam has expanded its sales and distribution channels in to 150+ countries providing business critical solutions in network security to 65000+ customers across the world. A Technology expert coupled with strong business acumen, Hemal has a successful track record in four technology start ups, building revenue, cash positive financial management, building a strong execution team and accurate risk analysis that has resulted in meaningful liquidity or valuation improvement.

He has built 600+ people team and is committed to grow channels and product through innovation to meet customer demands faster than competition. Hemal raised private equity funding from The Carlyle Group — Washington DC based largest private equity firm with $150B in their portfolio.

Joining forces with Sophos

Amid the accelerating consolidation of the network security market, Hemal’s visionary leadership seized an unprecedented opportunity and successfully led Cyberoam to join forces with Sophos. As two established security leaders come together, both Cyberoam partners and customers stand to reap ample business benefits from this association. With Sophos, Hemal has created an immensely rewarding opportunity to provide a comprehensive world class product portfolio for security solutions, making Cyberoam a One-Stop-Shop for its customers.

Hemal is also the founder of Eclipse Micro Computer that has helped to build and manage large IT infrastructure projects of highly reputed USA firms like Chase Manhattan Bank, J.P. Morgan, Dresdner Bank, Smith Barney & Shearson, Merrill Lynch, Prudential Insurance Company, AT&T Bell Laboratory, Amdahl Corporation and many more.

Hemal has the experience of building Technology Business and Retail ISP (Internet Service Provider) in USA, Puerto Rico, and India. Hemal has in-depth understanding in designing, testing and configuring each of the components of an ISP.

Hemal has been recognized as Top 50 powerful people of Gujarat by Zee Business Media and Rising Generation by Divya Bhasker, the leading media groups of India.

Hemal Patel has a bachelor degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering (EC) from India, Masters in Computer Science from USA and Advanced Project Management from Stanford University, CA, USA

 

Corporate Comm India (CCI Newswire)