Kanika Thapar Mehta

Senior Director of Product Management

2024 - Current

Responsible for the best security team delivering DSPM, cyber recovery, threat hunting , threat monitoring and anomaly detection for Rubrik Security Cloud

Limited Partner

2020

At the Oxford Angel Fund, we invest in early-stage startups with Oxford-educated founders and founders with an Oxford affiliation. Our investment thesis revolves around enabling accomplished Oxford alumni to participate in building the future of Oxford innovation through entrepreneurship​. Visit https://www.oxfordangelfund.com/home.html to learn more.

Steering Committee Member

2016 - 2022

The Oxford Angel Fund is a group of angel investors based in the San Francisco Bay Area who are interested in funding startups with an Oxford affiliation. Our common interest is in investing in Oxford educated entrepreneurs.

Senior Director of Product Management

2022 - 2023

Balbix is the world’s leading cybersecurity posture automation company. The Balbix Security Cloud uses AI and automation to reinvent how the world’s leading organizations reduce breach risk. With Balbix, security teams can now accurately inventory their cloud and on-premise assets, conduct risk-based vulnerability management, and quantify their cyber risk in monetary terms. Balbix was ranked #32 on the 2021 Deloitte Fast 500 North America and was named a Gartner ‘Cool Vendor.’ Balbix is a Series C startup with $101M in funding from leading investors like Mayfield and JC2 Partners.

Senior Director of Product Management

2022 - 2022

Yubico's mission is to help the internet and the world be a safer place. Yubico is the inventor of Yubikeys . Yubico went public in Stockholm valued at $800m. It raised $55Million in funding from investors like Andreessen Horrowitz, Meritech capital and New Enterprise Associates. I was responsible for all client tools and software at Yubico including the Yubico authenticator apps, Yubikey manager, windows logon tool, sdk's, drivers and YubiCloud.

Director of Product Management

2020 - 2022

Group Product Manager | Product Line Manager

2018 - 2020

I led the IoT and security strategy for Cisco’s wireless portfolio in product management

Principal Product Manager

2016 - 2018

Owned the development, launch and scale of the Firepower 4100 Next-Gen Firewall for the data center along with the high end portfolio refresh efforts migrating legacy firewalls and IDS solutions onto the new Firepower platform.

Senior Product Manager

2015 - 2016

Led the ruggedized firewall and FirePOWER 4100 series - the Next-Generation FireWall platform targeted for Enterprises, campus deployments and Data Centers in the Security Business Group at Cisco. Led the new product launches through pricing, competitive research and analysis, sales enablement, beta program, manufacturing readiness, enabling early orderability, FCS readiness, evangelizing the product at conferences and trainings, and product launch at the RSA conference.

Founder, CEO

2012 - 2014

Conceptualized & built a mobile-first marketplace connecting brides-to-be with curated content from wedding vendors. Doli Diaries was targeted at the south Asian wedding market with the goal of engaging brides-to-be in their complete wedding journey from first steps in scouting, inspiration & scrapbooks to enabling commerce, data & marketing leads for vendors. • Product & Market: Led ideation, market analysis, design based research and product requirements. • Launched iOS and Android apps. Tracked funnel metrics, virality & feedback loop. Engaged with advisors and VC’s • Users: Instrumented user acquisition and onboarding leading to 160,000 image views • Vendors: Acquired & on-boarded 50 vendors leading to 10,000 vendor site hits • Content Marketing: Led blog content strategy – grew blog to 50+ posts and 20,000 page views • Team: Brought together a team from USC, Georgia Tech, London College of Fashion, Cisco, Yahoo, SAP Learn more at www.dolidiaries.com

Blogger

2013 - 2013

MBAStartupBlog provides information, advise and guidelines to and from startup founders who are connected to the world’s best business schools. I wrote on the blog about my trials and tribulations as an MBA founder. http://mbastartupblog.com/2013/06/11/first-time-founder-the-grime-behind-the-glamour/ http://mbastartupblog.com/2013/09/04/reality-checks-from-part-time-founder-to-full-time-ceo/

MBA (Entrepreneurship and Strategy)

2012 - 2013

Focus on Strategy and Entrepreneurship Co-Chair, Entrepreneurship Oxford Business Network

Co-Chair

2012 - 2013

Leading the Entrepreneurship Oxford Business Network at Said Business School which is an elected body organising events, conferences and lectures on everything entrepreurship. This included working closely with the university-wide Oxford Entrepreneurs, hosting conferences such as "Oxford Inspires" and "Silicon Valley comes to Oxford" and organising the Silicon Valley trek which entailed visits and mixers with start-ups, corporates, design houses, VC's and alums.

Networking software engineer III

2008 - 2012

Worked on ASA firewall inspection engines for dns and ftp, ddns-dhcp, ddns over http, modular-policy framework, threat-detection, IOS parser Debugged issues on static routes, RIP updates, OSPF, voice protocols like SCCP, phone-proxy setup, IP phone registration and calling. Assisted in 64-bit migration effort from 32-bit Key member in presenting and interviewing in the Cisco Choice Hire program representing the Business Unit to new hires Member in the culture-team of the Business Unit in coordinating sports and cultural events