Manish Sarin

Manish Sarin is responsible for Proofpoint’s acquisition strategy and execution worldwide. He brings more than 15 years of experience in defining inorganic growth strategy, identifying and evaluating acquisition targets, structuring and negotiating transactions and helping integrate the acquired companies. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Mr. Sarin served as the lead strategy and corporate development executive for Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Software and Security division. In that role, Mr. Sarin worked extensively with HP's executive leadership team in defining and executing on strategic transactions. Previously, Mr. Sarin was director of investment banking at Merrill Lynch focused on technology companies and worked on several marquee M&A and IPO mandates. He started his career at JP Morgan / H&Q and earned an M.B.A. from Columbia and B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, India.