Manoj Nair
Founder, Algorand, 2026
Chief Innovation Officer
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Snyk
, 2026
As Snyk's Chief Innovation Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, Manoj Nair is spearheading the company's evolution from its leadership in Developer Security towards the future of AI Trust. He leads a dynamic organization of founders, builders, and innovators focused on charting Snyk's next horizons. This involves incubating cutting-edge ideas, forging deep strategic partnerships with key customers and technology collaborators, and identifying transformative opportunities in areas like Generative AI and intelligent agents to accelerate Snyk's growth and deliver exceptional customer value. In parallel Manoj is leading a fully AI native Integrated Marketing organization transforming both the external brand of Snyk and internal functioning of Marketing for an AI Native Era.
Previously, Manoj served as Snyk's Chief Product Officer from 2022 to 2024. In this role, he was instrumental in scaling the company for widespread enterprise adoption and driving significant growth for Snyk's Developer Security mission. His leadership was key in ensuring Snyk's platform readiness for deployment within the world's largest and most complex organizations, including a majority of the Fortune 500.
Before joining Snyk, Manoj was Chief Cloud Officer at Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT). There, he incubated and scaled the Metallic SaaS venture, a cloud data protection
innovator launched in close partnership with Microsoft, achieving $100M ARR within three years. Prior to Commvault, Manoj co-founded and served as CEO of HyperGrid, a Cloud Management Platform company. His earlier career included impactful product leadership roles at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell EMC, and RSA Security.
Manoj is also an inventor, holding more than a dozen patents in information management and security.
