Carlos Cordova, Tarun Thakur and Maohua Lu

Carlos Cordova

Carlos Cordova is Field CTO at Veza, where he works with enterprise security and identity teams to design and implement modern identity security strategies. He advises organizations on identity governance, least privilege, non-human identity security, and AI-driven access management, helping customers translate complex security challenges into scalable identity programs.

Tarun Thakur

Serial entrepreneur, Co-Founder and CEO of Veza. Focused on advancing the entire identity industry for the decades ahead. Product and an engineer at heart. We believe that “talent has no boundaries” – looking for builders and ambitious professionals to join the Veza family.

Prior to starting Veza, I was Co-Founder and CEO of Datos IO (acq. by Rubrik), first PM responsible for beyond backup products at Data Domain (acq. by EMC), and several storage research projects at IBM Research (Almaden).

Specialties: Business, Entrepreneurship, Products, Leadership, TeamsSpecialties: Business, Entrepreneurship, Products, Leadership, Teams

Maohua Lu

Maohua Lu Ph.D has a long history of work experience. In 2004, they were a Teaching Assistant at Stony Brook University. In 2008, they were a Technical Intern at Symantec Research Lab. In 2010, they were a Research Staff Member at IBM. In 2014, they were a Technical Director at Datos IO, Inc. In 2018, they were a Senior Staff Engineer at Rubrik, Inc. Currently, they are Co-Founder and CTO of Veza, a data security platform built on the power of authorization.

Maohua Lu Ph.D. obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Tsinghua University between 2000 and 2004. Later, between 2004 and 2010, they obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science from Stony Brook University. Additionally, they have obtained two certificates, a Cassandra Developer Certificate from DataStax in September 2015, and a MongoDB Developer Certificate from MongoDB, Inc. in February 2015.