Ashok Swaminathan is a Sr. Director of Product Management with overall responsibilities for the auditing area in the Oracle Database Security team (Audit Vault and Database Firewall, Data Safe Auditing, core database auditing). He has over 20 years of experience in the enterprise software market covering inbound and outbound product management. Prior to Oracle, he worked at SAP/Sybase, where he led PM activities for SAP HANA machine learning, Sybase ASE database, Database Auditing and other products. Ashok started his career as a software engineer in the hardware test automation field. Ashok has an MBA from The Wharton School, M.S in Computer Engineering from Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.