NEWS RELEASE:
Rubrik Appoints Kamal Brar as Vice President of Asia Pacific & Japan
AUCKLAND, New Zealand, August 28, 2019 — Rubrik, the Multi-Cloud Data Control Company, today announced the appointment of Kamal Brar as Vice President of Asia
Pacific and Japan. Brar will be responsible for driving Rubrik’s Asia operations. Based in Singapore, he will report
directly to Chief Revenue Officer Brett Shirk.
“Kamal has successfully led some of the most disruptive technology companies across Asia Pacific and we’re excited to
have him join Rubrik,” said Brett Shirk, Chief Revenue Officer at Rubrik. “His passion for software and building
high-performance teams will drive short and long term success as he scales our business in the region.”
Rubrik has quickly grown from its founding in 2014; earlier this year it raised a $261 million Series E funding round at
a $3.3 billion valuation. As data and applications proliferate in the enterprise, Rubrik’s unified platform is uniquely
positioned to provide customers with the ability to secure and control their data wherever it resides.
“I am excited to join this dynamic organisation that has succeeded in becoming one of the fastest-growing enterprise
software companies ever,” said Kamal Brar, Vice President of Asia Pacific and Japan, Rubrik. “Rubrik has a unique
opportunity to engage enterprises across the Asia-Pacific region that are undergoing digital transformation initiatives
and adopting hybrid cloud models. I look forward to helping customers leverage their data to gain a competitive
advantage using Rubrik’s solutions to manage, govern and orchestrate data across on-premise and cloud environments.”
Brar joins Rubrik from Hortonworks, where he led its fast-growing business in APAC and the Middle East. Prior to that,
he served as SVP of APAC at Talend where he launched its APAC operations. Brar also brings deep NoSQL to knowledge to
Rubrik having led the APAC business at MongoDB. Additionally, he has held leadership positions at Oracle, IBM,
Hewlett-Packard, and MySQL.
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