Pascale Vicat-Blanc

Founder and CEO

Pascale Vicat-Blanc co-founded Lyatiss in 2010 and brings more than 20 years of R&D experience on network and Cloud computing technologies. Prior to founding Lyatiss, Pascale Vicat-Blanc was Research Director at INRIA (French National Institute for Research in Computer Science), CIO of a Grid 5000 Data Center, Team Leader at INRIA-Bell Labs and Project Manager with the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). Pascale holds a MS and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Lyon.

She was recently inducted into the National Order of the Legion of Honor for her 20 years of research. Find out more about Pascale’s academic work by reading her publications.

Sebastien Soudan

Founder and CTO

Sebastien Soudan co-founded Lyatiss in 2010 and brings his technical expertise in bandwidth sharing, network scheduling, optical networks, network economics and game theory. Prior to founding Lyatiss, Sebastien Soudan graduated from l’Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 2005 and obtained his PhD in 2009 from l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon.

In 2009, Sebastien won the Marconi Prize “Young Scholars” for his research on dynamic bandwidth provisioning. Find out more about Sebastien’s academic work by reading his publications.

Patrick Nicolas

VP of Engineering

Patrick Nicolas joined Lyatiss in July 2012 as VP of Engineering. As a Silicon Valley veteran, Patrick Nicolas brings more than 20 years of software development experience related to Cloud computing, Big Data and online application management. His track record includes 10 years in CTO and VP of Engineering positions at startups and medium sized technology companies like Zvents, BiggerBoat, Resonate, Diligent Software Systems and Ikonodyne. For the last 12 years, Patrick has built engineering departments for early stage startups across the US, Europe and Asia, growing teams from 0 to 40 engineers. He is also an agile-savvy engineer who implemented successfully scrum processes in his previous startup organizations.

Patrick is also very active in the Silicon Valley community being the president of the Cupertino Toastmasters group. Patrick earned an MS in Computer Science from Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse.

Srikanth Gopalaswami

Senior Director, Product Management

Srikanth Gopalaswami is the Senior Director, Product Management at Lyatiss and is responsible for driving the company’s product leadership, vision and product marketing iniatives. Most recently, Srikanth held key product positions at VMware. Prior to VMware, he served in a number of product management and product marketing roles at EMC, GroundWork and Mercury Interactive and launched several successful enterprise software products and solutions in the application management, virtualization and Cloud computing areas.

He received his MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France and a BE (Hons) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.

Geraldine Boulez

Director, Sales and Marketing

Geraldine Boulez leads Lyatiss Sales and Marketing operational activities and brings more than 10 years of business development, product management, and marketing experience in software. Before joining Lyatiss, Geraldine held pre-sales, product management, and marketing positions at eFront and successfully launched leading financial software solutions. Prior to eFront, she was an equity derivatives consultant at Murex and led the business development effort for Alternative Assets software products in North America.

Geraldine holds an MBA from ESCP Europe, Paris.

Prabakar Sundarrajan

Advisor and Chief Strategy Officer at Juniper Networks

At Juniper, Prabakar Sundarrajan leads the strategy and technology direction of the company’s content and media delivery infrastructure solutions. Prabakar Sundarrajan joined Juniper via the acquisition of Ankeena. Prior to the acquisition, Prabakar co-founded Ankeena and served as its Chief Strategy Officer and on its Board of Directors. Before that at Citrix, Prabakar was responsible for driving Citrix Application Networking Group’s technology vision and product strategy. Prabakar joined Citrix via the acquisition of NetScaler Inc, where he served as CTO and EVP of Strategic Planning and Corporate Development. Prior to joining Netscaler, Prabakar was Senior Vice President of Technology for Exodus Communications. Prabakar was a member of the Exodus founding team and led the strategy, development and delivery of Exodus managed services from its inception.

Prabakar has over 25 years of industry experience in a variety of engineering, marketing and executive positions, including extensive experience in Internet, client/server and online transaction processing environments at Exodus, IBM/Transarc, HP, Intel and HaL. Prabakar holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. As a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE), Prabakar has mentored several entrepreneurs, and continues to do so.