Rohini Kasturi

Chief Executive Officer HG Insights

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Rohini Kasturi is Chief Executive Officer of HG Insights, which sells data on technology usage, spend and buyer behaviour to the sales and marketing teams of technology companies. He took the role in June 2024, succeeding Elizabeth Cholawsky, and has since expanded the company by acquisition, buying the software review site TrustRadius and the lead-scoring company MadKudu in 2025. He is a product executive by background. Before HG Insights he was Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer of SolarWinds and Chief Product and Development Officer of Pulse Secure. Earlier he founded Avni Networks, which Veritas Technologies acquired.

Career Highlights

• Chief Executive Officer of HG Insights since June 2024.
• Led HG Insights’ acquisitions of TrustRadius in June 2025 and MadKudu in August 2025.
• Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer of SolarWinds from March 2021 to November 2023, overseeing product management, engineering, product marketing, strategic alliances and portfolio management.
• Chief Product and Development Officer at Pulse Secure from February 2019 to February 2021.
• Founder, President, CEO and CTO of Avni Networks from April 2014 to December 2016, ahead of its acquisition by Veritas Technologies; then Vice President of Veritas’s Cloud and Data Management Business Unit until May 2018.
• Named on more than 20 patents.

Professional Journey

Kasturi studied computer science and engineering at Andhra University in India. SolarWinds’ disclosures credit him with more than 20 patents across a range of technology areas, and his work has centred on cloud, data management, security and networking infrastructure.

In April 2014 he founded Avni Networks, serving as president, chief executive and chief technology officer. Veritas Technologies acquired the company, and in December 2016 Kasturi joined Veritas as Vice President of its Cloud and Data Management Business Unit, where he stayed until May 2018. In February 2019 he became Chief Product and Development Officer of Pulse Secure, the secure-access company.

He joined SolarWinds in March 2021 as Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer, reporting into a leadership team headed by chief executive Sudhakar Ramakrishna. By 2023 he was one of its five executive officers. He was responsible for product management, engineering, product marketing, strategic alliances and portfolio management, and presented product strategy at the company’s November 2021 investor day, as SolarWinds moved from monitoring towards observability. He gave notice in August 2023 and left the role in November of that year, then consulted for the company until February 2024.

HG Insights named him chief executive in June 2024. The company built its business on technographic data, meaning which technologies companies use and what they spend on them. Under Kasturi it has recast itself around what it calls Revenue Growth Intelligence. It bought TrustRadius in June 2025, bringing buyer reviews into its data, and MadKudu in August 2025, adding lead and account scoring. Product launches since include platform copilots in March 2026 and a review platform built for generative-engine search in August 2026.

Education

Andhra University

Bachelor’s degree, Computer Science and Engineering