WSO2 Team
Innovative. Passionate. Committed.
Board Members
Jonas Persson, Ph.D.
Jonas Persson leads WSO2's board as chair. Jonas is an advisor to global software R&D teams and a board member of Skandia. He is the former CEO of Microsoft Sweden and has held several senior positions within Microsoft, such as COO of the Developer and Platforms Group, where he worked on cloud services and advanced application development. Previously, he was head of Microsoft Mobility Solutions, CTO of EMEA, and held field leadership roles. Jonas is currently a board member of a variety of software companies. He attended the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and holds a PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry.
Hari Gopalakrishnan
Hari Gopalakrishnan is a Partner in the EQT Private Capital Asia team, focusing on investment activities in India. Hari worked for BPEA from 2007 until 2022, when the company joined forces with EQT and was renamed BPEA EQT. Prior to joining BPEA, Hari was with an India-focused investment fund, New Vernon Capital, in their Mumbai office. Hari holds an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management – Ahmedabad and has an undergraduate degree from the University of Kerala.
Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen
Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen (DP) is Chief Executive Officer of SUSE and a member of the Management Board of SUSE S.A. Prior to joining SUSE, he worked at Red Hat for 18 years holding a number of senior executive positions. From 2010 to 2021, he was Red Hat’s General Manager in Asia Pacific and Japan and from 2021 to 2022 their General Manager in North America. Before joining Red Hat, he held senior roles at Planetweb, BSDI and the Santa Cruz Operation. DP is on the board of the Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore and since 2017 has been a mentor for women in business with Protégé Business Mentoring. In addition to his technical education, DP holds qualifications from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) and Harvard Business School.
Tami Reller
Tami Reller has played senior executive roles at Great Plains Software, Microsoft and UnitedHealth Group. These included chief financial officer, chief digital officer, and chief marketing officer. Her most recent operating role was Chief Executive Officer of Duly Health and Care, the largest independent physician group in the US. In addition to joining WSO2’s board, Tami also sits on a public board, SPS Commerce (SPSC); a private health care company, HealthBridge; and a large non-profit health system, Fairview Health. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from University of Minnesota, Moorhead, and a master’s in business administration from St Mary’s College in Moraga, California.
Nina Hargus
Nina Hargus is a technology industry advisor and former Chief Marketing Officer at EMC, Virtustream and VCE as well as a former senior Marketing executive at Dell where she led Global Field and Partner Marketing. Her passion is the intersection of strategy, marketing, and go-to-market to drive differentiation and growth for companies ranging from Fortune 100 through start-ups. In addition to joining WSO2’s board, Nina is an External Advisor in the Bain & Company Advisory Network, a leading management consulting firm. Nina is a graduate of Wellesley College with a BA in Economics where she continues to mentor students and she attended the MIT Sloan Executive Education program.
Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D.
Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, Founder and CEO, founded WSO2 in 2005 in order to reinvent the way enterprise middleware is developed, sold, delivered, and supported through an open source model. Prior to starting WSO2, Sanjiva worked for nearly eight years in IBM Research, where he focused on innovations in middleware and emerging industry standards. Sanjiva also has been committed to open source development for many years. He is an elected member of the Apache Software Foundation and in 2003 founded the Lanka Software Foundation, a non-profit organization formed with the objective of promoting open source development by Sri Lankan developers.
Board Observer
Vijai Raghavan
Vijai Raghavan serves on the board as an observer from EQT. Vijai is Head of Operations, India in the EQT Private Capital Asia team. He worked for BPEA from 2014 until 2022, when the company joined forces with EQT and was renamed BPEA EQT. Prior to joining BPEA, Vijai spent more than three years at Alvarez & Marsal India where he assisted private equity firms with due diligence and operational performance improvement at their portfolio companies. He has previously worked with McKinsey & Company and with Deloitte Consulting, both in the US, assisting clients in North America, Europe and Asia in strategy and performance improvement. Vijai holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University.