MENTIS Software welcomes new VP of Product Management & Customer Success

NEW YORK - Nov. 2, 2016 - PRLog -- MENTIS Software, the data masking and enterprise data security pioneer, announces the hiring of Sambasivam Sampathnathan as Vice President of Product Management and Customer Success. In this role, Sam will be responsible for maximizing the value of MENTIS' security platform and enterprise solutions for its customers.

Sam brings more than 20 years of experience that has been primarily focused on product management, development and delivery, client management, and support. Additionally, Sam has worked with Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Compliance and Governance (ILG) space for over decade. Prior to working for MENTIS, Sam was a Senior Product Manager for Worldwide at IBM USA for more than ten years, having joined IBM as part of the Princeton Softech (PST) acquisition in a role primarily geared towards product management, architecture, development, integration, and solution delivery around ILM, Data Security and Compliance.

"Exceptional customer service and relentless support are at the core of MENTIS' value proposition and Sam's experience is a perfect fit for our customer success team – one that is already known for its responsive and competent support," said Rajesh Parthasarathy, Founder & CEO of MENTIS. "He will lead our efforts in product strategy, vision, rollout, solution delivery, and customer engagements and, most importantly, he will be responsible for ensuring customers realize the full value of MENTIS' platform and enterprise solutions."

Sam has had global experience in assisting Fortune 500 clients successfully deploy ILM and Data Security solutions and has been a featured speaker at numerous industry conferences including Oracle Open World, OAUG, Collaborate, Quest Regional, IBM Information of Demand, and IBM Interconnect, as well as many regional events across the globe.

"It is critical for an enterprise to secure their IT infrastructure and the intellectual business data before a breach happens," Sam said. "I'm looking forward to working with MENTIS customers, our internal team, and our partners to ensure that we accomplish a shared goal of protecting our customers' sensitive data, and I'm excited to join a company whose vision is so different from others in its market, and that brings its customers such unique, groundbreaking solutions to help them safeguard their enterprise data."

The MENTIS platform begins with iDiscover^TM that provides certainty about where data is and the programs that put it there. Next is iMask^TM, iScramble^TM, and iMonitor^TM that wrap security around it, and then iRetire^TM to reduce exposure. The MENTIS suite secures sensitive data across the data's lifecycle, and in all IT environments, whether Non-Production, Pre-Production, or Production.

About MENTIS Software

Founded in 2004, MENTIS was one of the first companies in what was then a fledgling data-security market.  Guided by a visionary founder with a deep grounding in both business and technology, MENTIS immediately began to innovate and has since never stopped.

Gartner has featured MENTIS since 2008: first, as a Cool Vendor; in their 2012 inaugural Magic Quadrant for Data Masking, as a Visionary.  From 2013 on, as a Challenger.  Bloor calls MENTIS an Innovator in this same space.

MENTIS helps protects the data of some of the most iconic industries and institutions in the world.  Our customer roster includes internet commerce pioneers and national airlines; higher education institutions ranging from the Ivy League to Land Grant schools; international industrial behemoths and retail giants; and household names in the highly regulated financial services and healthcare industries.

And it was MENTIS who was called in to secure the data of one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.

Visit us at www.MENTISoftware.com.