About Todd Blaschka and Gaurav Deshpande

Todd Blaschka is the Chief Operating Officer at TigerGraph responsible for driving growth initiatives and scaling business operations. He is a technology industry veteran with nearly 20 years of sales leadership experience and a strong background in strategy and products. Prior to TigerGraph, Blaschka was vice president of worldwide sales at Clustrix, Inc. Additionally, he served as vice president of sales at Dataguise and has held various sales and marketing leadership positions at IBM, Electric Cloud and Sendmail, Inc., which was acquired by Proofpoint, Inc. in 2013. Gaurav Deshpande is the VP of Marketing at TigerGraph. Deshpande brings to TigerGraph a proven track-record in leading teams in creating new products, establishing new markets and dominating industries. Previously, he spent 15 years overseeing marketing for IBM's Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain and Cloud portfolios for the Banking and Financial markets, Telecommunications and Retail. He also built out and positioned IBM’s Big Data and Analytics portfolio, driving 45 percent year-over-year growth. Before IBM, Deshpande led two startups through explosive growth, i2 Technologies and Trigo Technologies.