Dhanya Thakkar has joined Trend Micro India as its managing director.
Amit Nath was earlier heading Trend Micro India as its country manager, India & SAARC. See his latest interview here: Trend Micro India head talks about Cloud security provider’s strategies
Dhanya joined Trend Micro, as a result of acquisition of IndusGuard, which he co-founded and for which he served as president.
Data centric strategy decision has defined Trend Micro’s focus, direction and execution to be recognized as the top provider for virtualization security & anti APT solutions with its Deep Security and Deep Discovery product offerings.
Dhanya has also worked with Third Brigade, a provider of server and cloud security software where he led the business development and security center as the vice president.
He was involved in all aspects of their strategy and operations and was instrumental in engineering the acquisition of Third Brigade by Trend Micro.
Prior to joining Third Brigade, Dhanya held various leadership positions at Entrust from 1995 through 2005. He is also the co-inventor of two patented technologies and has published Internet briefs on software technology.