Balaji Venkateswaran

Sep 23, 2015

DNAnexus has appointed Balaji Venkateswaran as chief technology officer. Most recently he was co-founder and vice president of engineering at Layer8 Security. Prior to Layer8, he held various management and executive positions at Symantec, GuardianEdge Technologies; which was acquired by Symantec; Elemental Cyber Security; and Evolve Software, now part of Oracle.

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The Scan

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