Nithya Krishnan leads the Marketing function at Couchbase India & SAARC, plays a key role in building and maintaining strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders, top regional agencies and clients. Prior to Couchbase, Nithya headed Developer & Influencer Marketing at Microsoft and led marketing leadership roles at leading security and cloud technology companies in India. Nithya has also held various positions, with marketing expertise in new market entry, competitive intelligence and marketing strategy, and a major portion of her professional career based in United States and India. She holds an MS & MBA from Johns Hopkins University, where she graduated with top honours and scholarship recipient, and a Bachelors from Bangalore University, India