Sudhir Nelvagal

Vice President, Engineering Owl Cyber Defense

Sudhir is the Vice President of Engineering at Owl Cyber Defense, a leader in developing Hardware and Software Cross Domain security solutions with products that are accredited and deployed in the Government, Defense and Intelligence sectors and also in the Commercial, Critical Infrastructure and Industrial sectors. Owl’s products are used by many reputed Oil & Gas companies and Utilities to protect their critical infrastructure and provide segmentation and separation of their IT and OT networks. Sudhir came to Owl from GE Research where he led the development and delivery of an Analytics Workbench which became a platform to develop and deploy Digital Twins at scale. Prior to this, Sudhir was the global head of software engineering for GE Oil & Gas’s Subsea Controls business in the UK – now Baker Hughes’ Oilfield Equipment division, where he led the software development activities for product and requisition engineering of large subsea controls platforms. Sudhir was at GE Healthcare for nearly 9 years as Director of software engineering in their Imaging software group developing solutions for the Radiology and Cardiology markets and during his time there, he led the development and delivery of GE Healthcare’s Next Generation Imaging platform. Sudhir spent his formative years working at a database company in their advanced technology group developing commercial relational and object relational database engine products.