Wind River Executive Leadership Team

With over ten decades of combined experience in technology innovation, the Wind River® Executive Leadership Team comprises some of the best minds in the industry.

 
Avijit Sinha
Avijit Sinha

President

Sean Lamb
Sean Lamb

Chief Financial Officer

Anuradha Mayer
Anuradha Mayer

Chief People Officer

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Avijit Sinha

President

Avijit Sinha is Wind River president, responsible for all aspects of the Wind River business globally. He previously served as Chief Product Officer, driving product strategy, product management, commercial partnerships, and industry solutions.

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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Sean Lamb

Chief Financial Officer

As Chief Financial Officer at Wind River, Sean Lamb oversees the company’s global financial strategy. He brings to Wind River nearly three decades of extensive financial experience in small and large private and public companies, offering deep expertise in M&A, cash management, equity/debt financing, revenue recognition, and new product analysis.

Prior to joining Wind River, he was CFO at two direct to consumer market leaders, Willow Innovations and Ruggable. At Willow, he focused on raising a Series D while also working with lenders to restructure the company's balance sheet. At Ruggable, he was focused on getting the Finance and Accounting organizations ready for a future IPO while assisting other parts of the organization on what processes need to be in place to succeed as a publicly traded entity. Prior to Ruggable, he spent 14 years at Dolby Laboratories, where he served as Vice President of Finance, leading Investor Relations, Corporate Finance and Business Support. During his time at Dolby, he worked on acquisitions, operational roll-outs of new initiatives, enhancing reporting and visibility into the business, and he also managed the company’s international Accounting and Finance shared service centers. He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University.

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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.
Paul Miller, Jr.

Chief Technology Officer

Eashwer Srinivasan
Eashwer Srinivasan

Corporate Vice President, Engineering

Amit Ronen
Amit Ronen

Chief Customer Officer

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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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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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Darrell Jordan-Smith
Darrell Jordan-Smith

Chief Revenue Officer

Jessica Miller
Jessica Miller

Vice President,
Communications & Marketing

Melissa Jacob
Melissa Jacob

Vice President,
Operations and Chief of Staff

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Darrell Jordan-Smith

Chief Revenue Officer

Darrell Jordan-Smith is Chief Revenue Officer, responsible for the leadership of the global sales team and go-to-market strategy at Wind River.

He brings nearly three decades of sales leadership experience in the IT, financial, telecom, and media market sectors with Fortune 100 and mid-size businesses. He joined Wind River from Red Hat, where he has spent the last ten years, most recently serving as Sr. Vice President, Industries & Edge. Under his leadership, Red Hat has achieved a CAGR revenue growth of 22%. Prior to Red Hat, he held a series of sales leadership roles at technology companies, including Consulting, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Lucent Technologies.

He holds a BSc degree in computer science from University of Glasgow and an M.B.A. from University of Strathclyde.

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Jessica Miller

Vice President, Communications & Marketing

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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Melissa Jacob

Vice President, Operations and Chief of Staff

Melissa Jacob is responsible for implementing operational excellence in execution and streamlining strategic initiatives to ensure that our business goals are met. She also oversees program management for the office of the president. She will play a critical role in ensuring that Wind River day-to-day operations across functions are aligned with the overall strategic direction of the company.

Melissa has extensive experience in strategy, transformation, business, and operations. She was previously at Aptiv, where she served as Vice President, Critical Initiative Delivery, establishing the Critical Infrastructure Delivery team. Prior to Aptiv, Melissa led the global product management organization for the Aerospace, Defense and Marine Connectors business at TE Connectivity, served as Business Leader for Aircraft Data Management at UTC Aerospace Systems, and Director of Strategy and Product Management at L3 Aviation Products. She is also a decorated Navy Veteran, having served on active duty as a Surface Warfare Officer in various capacities, including Navigator, Gunnery Officer and Chief Engineer, as well as a Company Officer at the French Naval Academy.

She has an MBA from INSEAD in France, a Master of Science degree in Financial Economics from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.