Lena Kannappan

Co-Founder, Head of Strategy, Partnerships and Cybersecurity Initiatives

Lena Kannappan is a serial entrepreneur, visionary leader, and customer-obsessed executive, currently at the helm of Healthcare Triangle, Inc. With over 15 years of startup operating experience, Lena excels in creating value-based outcomes that drive exponential revenue growth and ROI. As a founder and the Head of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Strategy at Healthcare Triangle, Lena is dedicated to transforming the Healthcare and Life Sciences IT industry through cloud technology, digital transformation, managed data platforms, analytics, and AI/ML. His leadership has been instrumental in securing debt financing, raising #PE funds, and filing for the #NASDAQ IPO, all while fostering strategic partnerships with leading public cloud providers.

Lena is recognized as an expert in cloud, identity security and GenAI/ML for both enterprise and consumer segments. His career highlights include being one of the original founders of the SAML 2.0 protocol and federated identity management model, which revolutionized the way identity information is shared between service providers and enabled the success of SaaS, cloud, and social networking.

Lena has been an invited speaker and panelist at numerous conferences and workshops, including the RSA Conference, IBM InterConnect, Cloud Identity Summit, and Stanford, CarnegieMellon, Cornell universities.

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