Nile appoints Srinivas Kavuri as chief development officer

Nile has appointed Srinivas Kavuri as chief development officer, putting the former Zscaler engineering executive in charge of its global engineering organisation, according to secondary accounts of the company announcement published on September 24, 2026.

A primary Nile press release page confirms the appointment headline, but the supplied primary material contains only limited page text. Secondary accounts from AOL, carrying Business Wire material, and citybiz report that Kavuri will report to Nile co-founder and chief executive Pankaj Patel and lead engineering as the company develops its Secure Network-as-a-Service platform.

Citybiz reported on September 24 that Kavuri joins Nile from cybersecurity company Zscaler, where he was senior vice president of engineering. It said he most recently led development of a platform that unified multiple Zscaler cloud services, work the report characterised as involving technical integration and enterprise-scale security infrastructure.

The same account said Kavuri previously held engineering leadership roles at Cisco, Veritas Technologies, MobileIron and CommVault Systems, with experience across networking, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, storage and data management. These career details are attributed to the secondary report and could not be independently verified from the supplied primary source text.

Nile describes itself in the supplied material as a Secure Network-as-a-Service company. Citybiz said its model combines hardware, software, security and cloud-based operations to deliver network infrastructure as a service, rather than requiring enterprise IT teams to assemble and maintain separate networking and security components.

According to the secondary citybiz account, Nile’s architecture incorporates a native Zero Trust Fabric, autonomous operations and cloud services. The report said the model is intended to reduce configuration, maintenance and security workload for enterprise networking teams, particularly as organisations add more applications, users, devices and AI-related workloads without necessarily expanding IT staffing.

Citybiz reported that Patel said Kavuri had spent his career building infrastructure layers at enterprise scale and would contribute to Nile’s investment in networking technology as enterprises prepare for AI workloads and more automated IT operations. The supplied evidence does not include the original full primary statement from Nile beyond the appointment page heading, so the comment is attributed to the secondary account.

The appointment places Kavuri in a senior engineering role at a company competing in enterprise networking, security and cloud-managed operations. No Australian customer deployments, local availability, pricing, partner announcements or regional hiring details were included in the supplied evidence.