Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Investor Stage

Seed

Kittu joined NEA in 2006 as a General Partner and focuses on information technology investments.

Present NEA board memberships include OANDA, NEA-IndoUS Ventures, Novatium, RingCube Technologies, SnapTell, and Teracent.

Formerly, Kittu was Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Security Products Group at Juniper Networks, a position he assumed following Juniper's acquisition of NetScreen Technologies.

At NetScreen, he was General Manager of Secure Access Products, a position he assumed following NetScreen's acquisition of Neoteris, where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer. Kittu brings more than 17 years of experience at the leading edge of the technology industry.

He co-founded Healtheon/WebMD, introducing online healthcare to the market. Before co-founding Healtheon/WebMD, Kittu worked at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) managing high profile Interactive TV projects.

Kittu holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and a M.S. in Operations Research from the State University of New York, Buffalo.