Saviynt appoints Varma as India & SAARC Managing Director

Saviynt has appointed Nitin Varma as Senior Vice President and Managing Director for India and SAARC.

The company, which provides cloud-native identity governance solutions, emphasised its strategic commitment to the region by creating this new senior role. Saviynt already has a substantial footprint in India, with almost 600 employees engaged in diverse corporate functions.

Varma's role will include spearheading Saviynt's new customer acquisition efforts, reinforcing technical and consulting partnerships, and enhancing the company's standing as a trusted provider of identity security solutions across India and SAARC.

"Nitin brings more than 25 years of experience in sales, operations, and strategy for some of the leading companies in identity, security, and infrastructure. We have a large opportunity and aggressive goals for growing our business in South Asia, and we are confident that Nitin is the perfect choice to build and scale our business in the region," stated Paul Zolfaghari, President at Saviynt.

Varma comes with over twenty years of leadership experience in cybersecurity and technology, having held significant positions at organisations such as CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks, and Cisco. His previous role was Managing Director at CrowdStrike, where he focused on building, scaling, and establishing a formidable market presence in India and SAARC.

Expressing his enthusiasm about the new role, Varma remarked, "I am excited to join Saviynt at a time when the company has tremendous potential to gain mindshare, build its reputation, capture market share in South Asia, and most importantly, deliver the desired outcomes to customers. India is the second most targeted nation in the world in terms of cyberattacks, a vast majority of which are identity related."

He further noted his intent to "build an impactful team and develop ecosystem partnerships and alliances to educate businesses in the region about Saviynt and why its cloud-based platform is the most reliable approach to solving problems and protecting identities."