Snehal Antani
Founder of Horizon3.ai
Snehal Antani
Founder of Horizon3.ai
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2019 - Current
Horizon3.ai's mission is to help you find and fix attack vectors before criminals can exploit them. NodeZero, our autonomous penetration testing solution, enables organizations to continuously assess the security posture of their enterprise Co-founded the company in 2019, raising $80M in venture capital funding across the Seed, Series A-C funding rounds
Chief Technology Officer
2018 - 2021
Served as the first Chief Technology Officer for Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) [JSOC prepares assigned, attached, and augmented forces, and when directed, conducts special operations against threats to protect the homeland and U.S, interests abroad ] As CTO and Highly Qualified Expert (HQE), I served as a member of the Commanding General’s executive team, responsible for driving technology, innovation, and digital transformation initiatives for the command Digital Transformation tenets: 1. Speed: quickly bring ideas from whiteboard to pilot 2. Agility: establish a “digital arms room” of hardware, software, data, and algorithms that can be rapidly integrated to solve emerging problems 3. Understanding: make our data accessible, usable, and insightful to improve understanding and accelerate decision making Outcomes include: 1. Established the Global Analytics Platform (GAP), a task force responsible for leveraging our data as an asset 2. Worked with directorates and units to secure, operate, and defend the enterprise spanning cloud, on-prem, and tactical edge systems 3. Drove research and development activities to prepare the command for the future operating environment, including: human-machine teaming, signature management, influence warfare, and other science & technology initiatives, creating an ecosystem of “first movers” and “fast followers”
SVP & GM Business Analytics & IoT
2015 - 2017
Served as the SVP & General Manager for the Business Analyics and IoT market group at Splunk, with the goal of expanding Splunk into these new markets. After building a new team from the ground up, we focused on the following: identifying the target use-cases & personas, determining product market fit, building & shipping new products, executing the market launch, delivering on committed revenue, and ensuring customer success. I was also a member of the senior executive team, and helped shape the strategy & vision for the company.
CTO
2015 - 2017
I joined Splunk in 2015 as CTO, working with strategic customers & partners on advanced analytics problems across IT Operations, Security, Business Analytics, and IoT. As part of this role, I also worked closely with sales & marketing to enhance messaging, improve sales enablement, increase sales pipeline coverage, and close deals.
CIO Distribution Finance
2015 - 2015
Promoted to lead the equipment leasing and inventory finance business for North America, which includes the following verticals: Inventory Finance: http://www.gecdf.com/ Transportation: http://www.gecapitaltransportationfinance.com/ Healthcare: http://www.gehealthcarefinance.com/ Vendor: http://www.americas.gecapital.com/financing-solutions/vendor-dealer-financing Strategy focused on the following: 1. Stabilize our mission critical credit processing platform. Delivered real-time monitoring and dashboards for "failed customer interactions", and launched projects to improve stability. Migrated critical application components to our private cloud 2. Enhance our value proposition leveraging analytics. Launched projects to help Leasee's get more value out of their commercial equipment 3. Increase the delivery speed of the organization. We delivered new prototypes in 10-20 day cycles, including a virtual leasing credit card integrated with Apple Passbook.
CIO, Enterprise Architecture
2012 - 2015
Serving as the chief architect for GE Capital - Americas, responsible for defining the technical architecture, strategy, and vision for the business. Directly managing the Mobile Center of Excellence (CoE), Middleware CoE, Database CoE, & Solutions Architecture CoE, totaling ~200 IT professionals Defined and executed the vision for “Responsibly moving at ‘Market Speed’”, a 36 month transformation split into two 18 month phases Phase 1: Simplify & Stabilize - Simplify by standardizing and automating our application platforms - Stabilize through pro-active monitoring and health management services Phase 2: Empower and Improve - Empower app teams with self-service capabilities, enabling "humans by exception' - Continuously improve our applications by letting the operational data "do the talking" Results: • Delivered platform-as-a-service (PaaS) capabilities, hosting all critical middleware services including App Server, BPM, MQ, Mobile App Management, SaaS Integration, API gateway • App teams were able to launch new, customer-facing apps in 15-45 day cycles leveraging our Platform-as-a-Service and Continuous Delivery, including: Fleet Optimizer, CDF Dealer Insights, CDF Commercial Mobile App, Fleet OnStar integration, and CF Digital Direct • Standardized operations, and improved operational visibility by delivering auto-ticketing services that are fully integrated into our CMDB • Simplified from 4 app server technologies to 1 standardized app server with HA and DR, reducing middleware costs by 72% • Executing thousands of security code scans and automated code deploys per month, resulting in fewer SCABBA (Security code review) surprises, and fewer late nights deploying code • 5 health policies, detecting memory leaks and other catastrophic events, guard every application, protecting our end-user experience and improving resilience. • Reduced operational tickets by 34% through integrated monitoring and logging services
CIO Commercial Distribution Finance (CDF)
2013 - 2015
Promoted to become the CIO of CDF within GE Capital, in addition to serving as the CIO of Enterprise Architecture for GE Capital- Americas. In this additional role, I’m responsible for driving business model innovation leveraging emerging technologies. The strategy is focused on 4 pillars: Global, Insightful, Frictionless, and Effective. • Directly managing a team of 250 employees across Connecticut, Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota, and India. • Global: offer a “1 CDF” experience to our global customers, & enhance our value via global systems • Insightful: Help our customers make better business decisions through predictive analytics services • Frictionless: enable our customers to transact with CDF whenever/however/wherever they want via multichannel applications and services (Web, Mobile, API), and ecosystem development. • Effective: empower our commercial teams to make better decisions, faster, by leveraging predictive analytics & presenting actionable insights at their fingertips. • Established a culture of Commercial Intensity & Market Speed, with 21-45 day delivery cycles Example deliverables: • Dealer Insights - mobile-first commercial analytics application that helps dealers better manage their inventory; whiteboard-to-pilot in 45 days • MyForecast - responsive web-app that helps manufacturers better plan their product lines; whiteboard-to-pilot in 45 days • Commercial Mobile App - mobile-first app that enables commercial teams and customers better understand the health of their dealerships and dealer networks; whiteboard-to-pilot in 15 days • Mainframe Modernization - replacing green screens with an IPad-compatible UI; see attached demo-video, which modernizes a screen in ~3.5 hours.
Emerging Technologies Product Manager
2012 - 2012
Part of the Emerging Technology Institute (ETI, aka CTO's office), driving the technical architecture and business strategy for cloud-centric application platforms; where we bring together cloud, mobile, social, and big data to serve as the foundation for "internet-scale" platforms that enable new systems of engagement. Key outputs: "Systems of Interaction" and "Systems of Engagement" which have been launched as IBM BlueMix (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/ebusiness/jstart/bluemix/) In this role I wear both technical and business hats: Technical architecture lead, driving the design for the overall platform, including: global workload management, high-speed invocation fabrics, elastic data services, and DevOps Business strategy lead, responsible for bringing new technologies within this space to market. Efforts include the overall go-to-market strategy, defining new business models, developing partner channels, sales enablement, marketing strategies & collateral, etc. As a member of the ETI, I'm also involved in the technical architecture and business strategy for other incubation projects, including operational analytics, big data, API management, emerging programming languages, etc
Product Line Manager, Private Cloud
2011 - 2012
Responsible for defining & implementing the private cloud strategy across IBM; key outputs include the IBM PureApplication System offering and its components. - Drive cross-brand and cross-division collaboration for workload-optimized systems & integrated middleware - Assess the private cloud market, including competitive threats, acquisition targets, and analyst sentiment - Be customer-driven, working closely with IBM customers to gather requirements and validate private cloud features & designs. - Defining the private cloud marketecture & reference model, which represents marketable capabilities, and collaborating with the sales and marketing team to establish mindshare - Defining the technical reference architectures for each layer of private cloud, which requires significant technical collaborations with Tivoli, WebSphere, Rational, Information Management, and Hardware Systems technical leadership - Identifying and monitoring key performance indicators to measure the success of the private cloud business - Identifying gaps, overlaps, and integration challenges with the existing portfolio of private cloud offerings across IBM -For each gap: determining whether to fill the gap by building technology, or acquiring a company. This involves significant collaboration with the Mergers and Acquisitions team - For each overlap, work with technical and business leaders across the brands to redefine the product offerings and identify integration points - Identify integration challenges and define the roadmap for resolving them - Helping define the acquisition strategy for IBM in the context of private cloud - Helping define the ecosystem strategy, where IBM can better leverage business partners to grow revenue - Helping define the consulting businesses across IBM to better align with the new dynamics that private cloud establishes - Working w/ IBM Research to provide out-year competitive differentiation
Senior Product Manager for WebSphere Cloud & Virtualization Technologies
2010 - 2011
- I currently lead the business strategy and product management for WebSphere’s cloud & virtualization technologies - Responsibilities include shaping the cloud technical strategy for the WebSphere portfolio, defining and revising product roadmaps to align with the strategy, and driving cross-brand and cross-division teams to execute on that strategy - As the product manager for forthcoming cloud offerings, I own the business case for the offering, and am responsible for bringing the offering to market - As a subject matter expert for application infrastructure, I also drive the sales of application infrastructure products within WebSphere, with a focus on winning at our largest enterprise accounts across all platforms (mainframe & distributed) world-wide - Influencing the strategic direction of emerging middleware technologies, including co-leading both business development and technology development efforts for WebSphere XD Compute Grid (IBM's modern batch processing platform). - Building close partnerships with development, product strategy, marketing, sales, and consulting services to help grow emerging middleware technologies in the marketplace. - Driving cross-brand (WebSphere, Tivoli, Rational, etc) and cross-division (GBS, GTS, SWG, STG, etc) collaborations and building an internal ecosystem around WebSphere XD and cloud. - Working closely with clients to both discover and validate product features and direction. - Working closely with business partners and ISV's via partnerworld, IBM Innovation Center, and channel partner teams to build an external ecosystem around WebSphere XD and cloud. - Evaluating competing products, identifying gaps, and building strategies to win competitive situations. - Conveying the value of WebSphere XD to industry analysts (Gartner, Forrester, etc)
Senior Managing Consulting & WW Technical Lead for WebSphere XD
2006 - 2010
- I led the world-wide consulting practice, where I was recognized as a thought leader and subject matter expert for the WebSphere XD suite of products across the mainframe and distributed platforms, which covers technology in the area of virtualization, batch processing, grid computing, and extreme transaction processing - Served as a trusted technical advisor to numerous enterprise clients world-wide, where I was called upon by C-level client executives to help define their IT strategy and technology adoption plans - earned a Master Certified IT Specialist accreditation from the Open Group, and was a senior managing consultant within IBM Software Services (ISSW). - Middleware experience that spans System z (both z/OS and z/Linux) and distributed systems (Unix/Linux/etc); and covering both system infrastructure topics (high availability, scalability, security, etc) and application design. - Served as lead enterprise architect for numerous customers. Responsibilities included defining a technical vision and strategy that helps our customers better align their business and IT. - Served as the lead solutions architect for numerous customers. Responsibilities included designing and bringing large-scale, first-of-a-kind product deployments from concept to production for top financial, insurance, and retail companies around the world. - Worked closely with IBM Research and with product development to design and build new technologies. My focus was in the areas of grid computing (compute grids and data grids), and data-intensive processing - Led multiple, globally-dispersed, large-scale product implementations concurrently. - Provided thought leadership for large, globally distributed teams made up of technical sales, sales, consultants, and customer teams. - Over 35 patents and technical disclosures are somewhere in the IP process (draft, search, file, publish, etc).
Developer for WebSphere XD
2005 - 2006
Worked as a developer for the WebSphere XD suite of products. In particular I worked on systems management (multi-platform) and z/OS integration features.
Developer for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS
2002 - 2005
I worked as a developer for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS. I worked on Web Services, Web Services Security, the EJB Container, performance, z/OS security integration, and product build.
Intern for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS
2001 - 2001
Worked as an intern in the development group for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS. I developed features for the EJB Container and worked on server performance issues.
Intern for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS
2000 - 2000
I worked as an intern for the WebSphere Application Server for z/OS development team. I developed features for the Object Request Broker (ORB), EJB Container, and worked on server performance issues.