Chandra Gnanasambandam is an Executive Vice President (EVP) of Product and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Chandra joins SailPoint after a distinguished, two decades-long career at McKinsey & Company, where he most recently co-led the firm's global high-tech practice.
Chandra’s expertise spans both product management and engineering, with a proven track record of driving large-scale transformations for some of the world’s largest and fastest-growing cloud companies. His leadership has helped organizations achieve significant market capitalization growth through strategic and impactful changes in both software and hardware. Prior to his work in McKinsey's high-tech practice, Chandra co-founded and led Fuel, McKinsey’s investor and start-up arm, and was a founding partner of McKinsey's Bangalore office in India. Chandra started his career as a Java architect in the early days of Java at Sun Microsystems, contributing to early Java development and implementation at large customers.