Niraj ToliaCo Founder

United States - Los Altos, California

Niraj Tolia is the CEO and Co-Founder at Alcion. He was previously the CEO of Kasten, a company he founded in order to solve the problem of Kubernetes backup and disaster recovery. After its acquisition by Veeam, he served as the General Manager and President and the SVP, Strategy of Kasten by Veeam. He also was a Governing Board member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).

With a strong technical background in distributed systems, storage, and data management, he has held multiple leadership roles in the past, including Senior Director of Engineering for Dell EMC's CloudBoost group and VP of Engineering and Chief Architect at Maginatics (acquired by EMC). Dr. Tolia received his PhD, MS, and BS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.