leadership
The people driving OpsCruise
FOUNDER & CEO
Scott Fulton
Scott is the Founder and CEO of OpsCruise. He brings in several decades of executive management, product and sales experience. Previously, Scott was the EVP of Products & Corporate Development at Infoblox where he led the expansion into cybersecurity and the transformation to SaaS. Prior to Infoblox, he spent more than a decade as a GM/P&L leader of several infrastructure application businesses at HP Software and BMC. He also has early career start-up experience and on-the-ground roles in Europe and India. He holds a BA from the University of Michigan and a MBA from UC Davis.
FOUNDER & CTO
Aloke Guha
Aloke is the Founder and CTO of OpsCruise. He brings extensive entrepreneurial experience from several enterprise sectors as well as experience in incubating new business in larger tech firms. Previous to OpsCruise, he was at Hitachi where he led many of their IoT initiatives. Prior to that, he was the founder of several Big Data start-ups, including Creekpath (HPE) and Copan (HP). He is a luminary in the AI/ML industry and has 28 patents to his name. He holds a B Tech from IIT Kanpur and a MSEE / PhD from the University of Minnesota.
FOUNDER & Chief Architect
Shridhar Venkatraman
Shridhar is the Founder and Chief Architect and engineering leader for OpsCruise. He brings considerable software engineering and large scale systems expertise from several industry sectors, including Payments, Pharma, Treasury and Capital Markets. He has been a successful founder at RetailWave and NeemTree, and held senior tech roles in his early career at ESQ Business Services and Tandem (HPE). He holds a M Tech from IIT Chennai.
CHief CUstomer Officer
Tim Colby
Tim Colby is Chief Customer Officer for OpsCruise and responsible for all customer and go-to-market partnerships. Prior to OpsCruise, Tim has scaled revenue, teams and processes at several technology start-ups. A proven sales veteran, he has led global sales channels and built world-class programs from ground-up at Aruba and Infoblox in pre-IPO stages and helped them advance into dominant industry positions. Tim has extensive experience in infrastructure security, networking and cloud areas and has been an active advisor with a number of modern SaaS companies. Earlier in his career, he founded his own NSP in the MidWest (MCurve) which he grew to more than $35M in revenue with partners such as F5, Juniper and NetApp. He holds a Bachelor of Science from DePaul University’s College of Commerce in Chicago.
Principal Solutions Architect
Cesar Quintana
Cesar Quintana is a Principal Solutions Architect at OpsCruise. He brings over 15 years of experience in the Information Technology sector, with a key focus on Observability Architecture, Tools, and Practices. Previously, Cesar held Senior roles as a Solutions Engineer, Observability Architect, I.T. Consultant, and Systems Engineer, working with some of the largest U.S. and international companies. He attended Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.
