
An accountant’s training took Tom Montgomery into capital markets, a 300-person advisory firm and private investing. In 2025, the next chapter became a family enterprise.
Nanda Santhana is the co-founder and CEO of DataBahn.ai, a Plano, Texas startup building AI-powered telemetry data pipelines for security, observability and AI workloads. Before DataBahn he spent nearly a dozen years as a founding member and SVP at Securonix, with earlier stints at Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Vaau. In June 2025 DataBahn closed a $17M Series A led by Forgepoint Capital, taking total funding to $19M.