Executive Leadership Team

Bryan LeBlanc

Interim Chief Executive Officer

Bryan LeBlanc is serving as Wind River's interim chief executive officer. He was previously Wind River CFO, overseeing the company’s global financial strategy and operations. He brings to Wind River three decades of extensive financial experience in small and large public high technology companies, offering deep expertise in M&A, cash management, equity/debt financing, and software revenue recognition.

Before joining Wind River, he was CFO of startup Spire Global Inc., a space to cloud analytics company. Prior to Spire, Bryan was CFO of Jive Software for nine years where he was instrumental in growing and scaling the company, as well as in efforts to launch the company’s initial public offering in 2011. Prior to Jive, he served in various finance positions of increasing responsibility at companies including Webtrends Inc., Mercury Interactive Corporation, and inSilicon Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. in finance and marketing from Santa Clara University and an undergraduate degree from Holy Cross College.

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Jembaa Mai

General Counsel

Jembaa Mai brings to Wind River 20 years of legal experience, cloud and AI business practices, and extensive cross-functional experience. She joined Wind River from Microsoft, where she served for 10+ years as an attorney covering Microsoft Windows Embedded, Patent Licensing, and Fin Tech, then most recently as Senior Director for Cloud IoT and AI business development.

Before going in house for Microsoft, she worked at Seattle law firms K&L Gates and Beacon Law, where she advised start-ups and provided counsel to companies on mergers and acquisitions, corporate set-up and evolution, exit strategies and financing rounds, stock plans, IP identification & protection, and regulatory compliance.

She holds a Juris Doctor degree from Villanova University School of Law.

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Anuradha Mayer

Chief People Officer

Anuradha Mayer leads the company’s global People and Places team. She is responsible for making the company’s cultural attributes of growth mindset, customer focus, and diversity and inclusion the lived experience at Wind River, as well as driving the company’s talent development and acquisition strategy.

Anuradha has deep experience driving complex and global transformation and change, accelerating business outcomes by designing innovative HR strategies and cultivating a positive and engaging people experience. She joined Wind River from Cisco, where she most recently served as Head of People and Communities for Customer Experience, responsible for organizational effectiveness, diversity, equity & inclusion, workforce planning, talent strategies, talent acquisition, leadership development and executive coaching. Prior to that, she was the HR leader for Cisco’s security division large scale acquisition strategies and building next gen leaders and teams. Prior to Cisco, she was at Sun Microsystems.

She holds a B.S. degree in Business from San Diego State University.

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Paul Miller, Jr.

Chief Technology Officer

As Chief Technology Officer at Wind River, Paul Miller is responsible for the company’s technology strategy. With nearly three decades of telecommunications and advanced technology leadership at both large companies and successful startups, he is currently focused on Wind River’s edge virtualization and AI solutions, including Wind River’s market-leading 5G Cloud offering based on StarlingX.

Prior to joining Wind River, he was the Chief Technology Officer of GENBAND. He has led the architecture and development of various switching, IMS, IP media, call control and web applications solutions employed by multiple tier-one operators worldwide. His last eight years have been focused on OpenStack, SDN, and NFV automation technology, and include operation of a multi-site, multi-cloud infrastructure, multiple Tier one CSP VNF deployments as well as a significant NFV patent history. His contributions throughout his career have enabled many communications service providers worldwide to create new revenue streams, while dramatically reducing operating costs.

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Avijit Sinha

Chief Product Officer

Avijit Sinha is responsible for driving product strategy, product management, commercial partnerships, and industry solutions with a focus on further expanding the company’s industry-leading Wind River Studio offering.

He joined Wind River from Microsoft where he most recently served as General Manager for Azure Mobility enabling the digital transformation of automotive OEMs towards building connected and autonomous driving vehicles. Prior to that he was Senior Director of Corporate Business Development for IoT and Intelligent Edge. His team was responsible for strategy, partnerships, investments and acquisitions in Intelligent Edge, IoT, automotive, manufacturing, energy, smart buildings & cities, and autonomous systems (vehicles, robotics and drones).

Over his 20+ year Microsoft career, he served in a range of leadership roles responsible for product development in Azure, Office, Windows, and Microsoft Research across personal, mobile and cloud computing. He holds several patents for productivity and platform software.

He has a Bachelor's degree from Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, Master's in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University and an MBA from Seattle University.

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Eashwer Srinivasan

Corporate Vice President, Engineering

Eashwer Srinivasan is responsible for the global engineering organization at Wind River. In this role, he leads the delivery of innovative products that are enabling and accelerating the digital transformation of our customers across market segments, ranging from aerospace to industrial, defense to medical, and automotive to telecommunications. Over his 25+ year career in the industry, he has helped launch several software products and solutions that drive revenue, profitability, and efficiency at global organizations such as Rockwell Automation, GE Digital, and NASA.

He joined Wind River from Rockwell Automation, where he most recently served as Head of Engineering Software Platforms. He was responsible for strategy, planning, and execution for delivering market-leading software and software platforms that enable industrial automation globally, including some first in the industry SaaS-based products. Prior to that, he led engineering at GE Digital for multiple industrial IoT product lines for the energy value chain, including power generation, renewable energy, and oil & gas. Before GE Digital, he managed massive projects and spearheaded disruptive technologies for NASA that have had worldwide impact, including executing the One NASA Platform that enabled billions of people across the globe to view the JPL/NASA Mars Rover landing, Space Shuttle Return To Flight, and many other space missions.

He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from Anna University, Madras (Chennai).

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Amit Ronen

Chief Customer Officer

Amit Ronen is responsible for managing customer-facing engineering groups across the globe, including field engineering, engineering specialists, professional services, and customer support organizations.

Before joining Wind River, he was the founder and CEO of Presales Solutions, a company that offered a unique on-demand hosted solution in the customer relationship management (CRM) space. Prior to Presales Solutions, he spent more than 10 years with Mercury Interactive, where he gained extensive executive and global field management experience. There he managed and built the presales organization in the Americas, expanding it from 40 people to more than 150 people and supporting revenue generation of more than half a billion dollars. In addition, he served as vice president of professional services for the Americas and vice president of Mercury’s Tuning business, a startup within the company. He was also a founding member of Mercury Interactive Japan KK and was responsible for all technical field operations in the Japan and Korea region.

He holds a B.A. in computer science and economics from Tel Aviv University in Israel and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program (SEP) of Stanford University in California.

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Doug Ertz

Corporate Vice President,
Global Sales

Doug Ertz is responsible for the leadership of the global sales team at Wind River. With over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, he is leading the company's efforts to capitalize on long-term growth opportunities and align the sales organization with key customer and industry segments. In this role, he is responsible for the strategy and direction of Wind River sales operations across the company's multiple product lines. He joined Wind River in 2014 and most recently served as vice president of worldwide sales for the Wind River networking and simulation business units.

Prior to joining Wind River, he held sales leadership positions with major technology companies, including Spirent Communications, SAP, Manugistics (JDA Software), and Cadence Design Systems. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.

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Michael Gale

Chief Marketing Officer

Michael Gale oversees all global marketing strategy and execution for the company, focusing on accelerating the digital transformation of our customers. He is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the number-one-selling book on digital transformation, The Digital Helix. For more than 25 years Michael has focused on building world-class, leading-edge digital experiences, from his role as the chief web officer at Micron to his roles as a group partner at Monitor Group and as a partner at PulsePoint group. He has consulted on SaaS migration pathways for a number of leading technology companies and has built and sold two SaaS subscription companies, Strategic Oxygen and The Social Media Accelerator, since 2006.

He has written for the Drucker Institute on the digital DNA of successful transformations, and he is the host and creator of Futures in Focus, the Forbes podcast about the world ten years from now. He is a top ten global AI and digital transformation influencer (Thinkers 360).

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Christina Ungaro

Vice President
Corporate Development

Christina Ungaro is responsible for driving the business development agenda with a focus on M&A. She works across functions to align on market and product strategies and shape our corporate strategy.

She brings to Wind River nearly 20 years of proven experience helping companies transform and grow through acquisitions, divestitures, investments, joint ventures, and partnerships, including experience acquiring both private and public market companies and cross-border M&A. She most recently led global corporate development at the Jones Lang LaSalle commercial real estate firm and previously spent a decade at IBM in the corporate development organization, where she worked on numerous acquisitions across software, services, and hardware. She began her career on Wall Street as a sell-side research analyst at Jefferies & ABN AMRO covering the telecommunications industry. Her industry expertise spans telecom, technology, software/SaaS, and professional services.

She holds a B.S. degree in finance and psychology from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

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Jessica Miller

Chief of Staff & Vice President, Corporate Communications

Jessica Miller is responsible for streamlining strategic initiatives and overseeing program and operational management for the office of the president and CEO; she also leads the global corporate communications team, overseeing all internal and external communications for the company.

She has over 15 years of communications experience for leading global organizations across multiple industries in the strategy, management, and execution of public relations, analyst relations, executive/internal communications, social media, and corporate positioning. Prior to joining Wind River, she led corporate communications at Advent Software. Before that, she held marketing and communications roles at Morrison & Foerster LLP and Thomas Weisel Partners LLC. She holds a Bachelor’s degree from University of California, Davis in communications and political science.

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