Summary
Maneesh Sahu is a founder and product leader with 11 years of experience building security, IoT, and digital health products for companies like Zscaler, Okta, Samsung and NetBase. He led Zscaler’s third‑party access portfolio to ~$20M ARR, expanded the company into Operational Technology and holds multiple patents in privileged access. As a founder of Ferentin he’s now focused on identity‑based, zero‑trust access for LLMs and agentic runtimes, marrying product strategy with deep security expertise from Stanford and UC San Diego programs. His background spans startups and enterprise partnerships—driving OEM integrations with Microsoft, Siemens and Okta—and includes founding a digital health startup that informed his platform thinking at Samsung. Known for turning complex cyber‑physical and privacy challenges into commercially successful products, he blends technical depth with go‑to‑market instincts.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
University of California, San Diego
Executive Education Product Management, Executive Education Product Management at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Professional Program Advanced Computer Security, Professional Program Advanced Computer Security at Stanford University