Krishna Yadappanavar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kloudfuse, a unified observability platform. He previously co-founded SpringPath, securing $94 million in funding and leading the company to a $320 million acquisition by Cisco. With over 20 patents, Krishna has significantly impacted data, virtualization, and storage technologies at Veritas, Commvault, EMC, VMware, and Cisco. He co-authored VMware’s VMFS and designed critical components of the storage virtualization stack for ESX Server. Additionally, Krishna advises and invests in emerging startups across Data, Virtualization, Cloud, Security, and AI/ML, contributing to vision, product strategy, engineering, and go-to-market efforts.