Sandeep Johri (born December 20, 1962) is the former CEO of

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, an IT testing software company.

Career

Johri joined

in 2013 as CEO. Before joining Tricentis, Johri served as the COO of Appcelerator, an open source mobile application development platform. Previously, he was Vice President of Strategy and Industry Solutions at

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, where he also served as Vice President of Corporate Development. Johri was also instrumental in the formation of two startups, Determina and Bluelane, both of which were later acquired by

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. Additionally, he was the CEO and founder of Oblix (acquired by

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), and co-founded eBoodle (now

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), one of the first ecommerce comparison shopping services.Bloomberg Profile on Tricentis"
/ref>DevOps Chat: Continuous Testing with Sandeep Johri, CEO, Tricentis
by Alan Shimel, DevOps.com, March 9, 2018] Johri was also responsible for HP's $4.5B acquisition of

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: the largest deal to date in software testing space."Ex-HP cloud VP joins Mayfield Fund"
by Diana Samuels, Gigaom

Biography

Johri was born in

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on December 20, 1962. Johri has an MBA from

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, a master's degree in Industrial Engineering from

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, Detroit, and a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from

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, India. Johri has been involved as an advisor and investor in various startups in Silicon Valley and India, including

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, alphonso, Cenzic (acquired by

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), Dhingana (acquired by

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), and Shopalize (acquired by 24/7 Customer). Johri also served as co-chair staff on President

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's National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council on issues related to the United States government's " Information Superhighway" initiative. He was inducted into the Wayne University Hall of Fame in 2012.University Hall of Fame

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