Management
Arun Kanchi, President and Chief Executive Officer

Arun Kanchi is an IT veteran and the founder of ExaFort. Kanchi brings more than 20 years of a wide range of experience in software development, professional services and IT management. He provides vision and direction for the company which brings exceptional and innovative services to organizations that require IT to respond to demanding and changing business. Kanchi is a true Entrepreneur with abilities and proven track record in building strong and successful companies. He is a technologist and business strategist with an exceptionally creative mind.
Prior to ExaFort, Kanchi served as the CIO of Force10 Networks where he built a strong IT organization to support a fast paced, hi-tech organization and a technology leader that provides the reliable infrastructure required to build and secure intelligent services networks. It was at Force10 as a CIO Kanchi realized the need for a different kind of IT to evolve with the Cloud Computing paradigm shift that formed the basis for founding ExaFort.
Kanchi received his integrated engineering undergraduate and Masters degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India.

