Vijay Tanamala

Founder & Executive Chairman BlueAlly

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Vijay Tanamala is the founder and Executive Chairman of BlueAlly, an IT services and solutions provider headquartered in Cary, North Carolina that sells networking, security, data center and cloud solutions to business, government, education and healthcare customers. He led the company as CEO before moving to the chairman’s role, and has held that position through a change of control: private equity firm Source Capital took a controlling interest in BlueAlly in July 2020. BlueAlly describes his current remit as growth through mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning and governance, which fits the acquisitive path the company has taken under chief executive George Barkley.

Career Highlights

• Founded BlueAlly, an IT solutions provider based in Cary, North Carolina.
• Served as BlueAlly’s chief executive before becoming Executive Chairman.
• Quoted as founder and Executive Chairman when Source Capital acquired a controlling interest in BlueAlly in July 2020, and when BlueAlly acquired Irvine, California security provider Virtual Graffiti that year.
• Now focuses on mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning and governance, according to the company.
• Credited by BlueAlly with developing processes for the rapid valuation, acquisition and integration of acquired operations.

Professional Journey

Tanamala founded BlueAlly and ran it as CEO. The company’s own materials describe him as a technology entrepreneur who has led companies in IP generation and spearheaded initiatives recognised by industry analysts as innovation-led best practice, and credit him with building processes for valuing, acquiring and integrating businesses quickly.

In July 2020 Source Capital, an Atlanta and San Francisco private equity firm investing in lower middle-market companies, acquired a controlling interest in BlueAlly Technology Solutions. Tanamala, by then founder and Executive Chairman, welcomed the firm’s “experience, insight, and partnership approach” as a way to accelerate the company’s growth, and pointed to infrastructure automation and managed security services as the areas where BlueAlly aimed to gain momentum. The same year BlueAlly acquired Virtual Graffiti, an Irvine, California network security provider; Tanamala said the combination would give customers best-in-class security solutions and position the business for the growing IT security market.

George Barkley became CEO in May 2021, and BlueAlly has since grown largely by acquisition, adding n2grate in 2023 and further businesses after it. Tanamala remains Executive Chairman, with a role the company defines around mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning and establishing governance.

Education

BlueAlly states that he holds an executive MBA and a bachelor’s degree in engineering. The institutions are not named in any source reviewed.