Balaji Yelamanchili is President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Dataminr and the former CEO of ThreatConnect, which Dataminr acquired. He brings more than two decades of experience as an operating executive and investor in high-growth software companies. As an investor, Balaji served as a venture partner at Shasta Ventures and as an Operating Executive at Evergreen Coast Capital.
Before this, he served in senior operating executive roles, including Executive Vice President and General Manager of Symantec’s Enterprise Security Business Unit and Senior Vice President at Oracle, where he oversaw business analytics and enterprise performance management products. He holds an MS in Engineering from Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge and an MBA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.