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Gaurav Deshpande Still Thinks Like an Engineer. That Is His Marketing Advantage.
The Aerospike CMO has spent nearly three decades turning difficult technology into legible business stories. His operating system is equal parts engineering discipline, customer evidence, and a healthy suspicion of confident machines.
Subbu Iyer
Subbu Iyer is the President and CEO of Aerospike, a real-time NoSQL database company powering some of the world's most demanding data workloads at sub-millisecond latency. With 30 years of enterprise technology leadership across Oracle, VERITAS, HP, Dell EMC, and Riverbed Technology, Iyer took the helm at Aerospike in January 2022 and has since led the company through a pivotal transformation into AI infrastructure, closing $109M in growth capital in April 2024 and an additional $30M in December 2024. Under his leadership, Aerospike expanded from a key-value store into a multi-model database supporting vector, graph, and document data - positioning it squarely at the intersection of real-time data and generative AI.