Get to Know Esper

Esper is redefining device management with advanced automation, moving beyond MDM to a DevOps-driven future. By eliminating re-provisioning and enabling exception-based management, Esper unlocks unmatched operational efficiency.

How Did

Esper Start?

The Vision Sparks

After developing the underlying infrastructure for Amazon Go, Fire TV, Kindle, and Alexa, Yadhu Gopalan saw a gap—why wasn’t there a unified platform for managing enterprise devices?

The Founding of Esper

To bridge this gap, Yadhu joined forces with Shiv Sundar. With decades of experience at the intersection of hardware and software, they set out to build a revolutionary device management platform.

Industry Expertise

Together, they had played a key role in shipping over 100 million devices globally, giving them deep insights into the challenges enterprises faced in managing hardware at scale.

Building the Future

Esper was created as the next-gen solution, transforming company-managed hardware with a powerful, scalable, and enterprise-friendly platform.

OUR MISSION

What Drives Us?

Esper Powers Exceptional Device Experiences

Our Core

Values

Fiercely Collaborative

We are hands-on, willing to pitch in, and take pride in helping each other succeed regardless of department.

Build Trust

We strive for open and honest communication with our customers, colleagues, partners, and prospects.

Get Shit Done #GSD

We get shit done and proactively solve problems at the individual and team level, even if it's outside our scope. Period.

Innovate, Experiment, and Learn

We take calculated risks that push us past our comfort zone, driving our innovations forward.

Committed to Customers

We always work in the best interest of our customers. When they are successful, we are successful.

Yadhu Gopalan

Co-Founder & CEO

Yadhu has over 25 years and 35 patents in embedded systems and security. His career includes past engineering leadership roles such as Chief Architect of Windows CE and Windows Phone. At Amazon, Yadhu designed back-end solutions for FireOS and AWS before he owned Systems Engineering for Amazon Go. Today, Yadhu is our Chief Geek, CEO, and Co-Founder. The visionary behind our mission to bring next-gen device management tools and DevOps deployment principles to company-managed devices everywhere.

Shiv Sundar

Co-Founder & Chief Business Operator

Shiv makes things happen, both at Esper and for our customers. He knows Android inside and out after running Android partnerships for Huawei. Shiv strengthened his open source and device maker relationships after managing OEM partnerships at Cyanogen and Windows Phone device commercialization for Microsoft. Shiv is a true expert at hardware matchmaking and excels at knowing which devices will just work in nearly any scenario.

David Barclay

Chief Financial Officer

David is a three-time startup CFO and has led high-growth startups in increasing their revenue from single-digit millions to over one hundred million. He has a proven track record in managing and leading acquisition strategies, raising multiple rounds of venture capital, and leading successful exit strategies. David has a unique blend of technical knowledge and device management experience, in addition to keen business acumen.

Sudhir Reddy

Chief Technology Officer

Sudhir is a hands-on technologist who prides himself in building and scaling global engineering teams while delivering high-quality products for customers worldwide. He is an empathetic leader who passionately cares about customer success, product quality, and engineering excellence. With over 26 years of experience in leadership roles at Intuit, Oracle, Hyperion, ASML, and more, Sudhir brings a unique blend of business acumen, product innovation, development of large-scale DevOps platforms, and execution capabilities to Esper. He joins Esper from Chef, a pioneer in DevOps, where he was the global head of engineering.

Keith Szot

Chief Evangelist

Keith is the geeky force-of-nature that drives Esper’s efforts to build a robust community of device manufacturers and software developers to connect with our customers. He evangelizes Esper’s value to devs, product owners, and chief tech officers. Keith’s experience includes running product management for a dev tools startup that was sold to Symantec. Next, he worked at Microsoft with MSDN, CryptoAPI, Windows CE / Platform Builder, and Windows Mobile. Keith’s first programming language was BASIC on the TRS-80. He’s also shipped code for a PDP -11 at Siemens.

Bill Glenn

SVP - Marketing

Bill Glenn brings over 20 years of experience in B2B SaaS marketing leadership as Esper’s SVP of Marketing. Before Esper, Bill held the head of marketing role at four high-growth startups, including Seattle-area-based Rightside, Socrata, and TalentWise. He is a leading authority on go-to-market strategies with a focus on ecosystem partnerships and account based marketing (ABM). Bill enjoys mentoring and guest lecturing at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business.

Jeff Jones

SVP - Revenue

Jeff Jones is Esper’s SVP of Revenue. He’s an industry veteran with over 20 years of experience leading and growing GTM motions via partnerships, and driving scalable and repeatable revenue for both startups and global companies like Microsoft, Amazon (AWS), and Wyre. Jeff joins Esper from Xebia, a global IT consulting firm.