Dataminr has appointed Balaji Yelamanchili as president and chief operating officer as the company integrates ThreatConnect and scales its real-time, artificial intelligence-driven intelligence platform.
Yelamanchili joins Dataminr shortly after the company closed its $290 million acquisition of ThreatConnect, where he previously served as CEO, according to Dataminr’s LinkedIn post on Tuesday. He succeeds Brian Gumbel, who will transition into a strategic advisory role.
Who Is Balaji Yelamanchili?
Yelamanchili brings decades of experience leading large-scale technology and security organizations. Before ThreatConnect, he held investment and operating roles at Shasta Ventures and Elliott Management’s private equity arm. He also served as a senior vice president at Oracle, where he led data analytics and enterprise performance management products, and as executive vice president and general manager of the enterprise security business at Symantec.
“A seasoned technology and security executive, Balaji brings a wealth of experience to Dataminr, including decades in leadership roles at the intersection of data, analytics, AI, and security with a strong track record of scaling organizations, leading go-to-market transformation, and building high-performing teams,” Dataminr wrote. “Balaji’s leadership and operating expertise make him an incredible addition as we continue to scale Dataminr’s real-time AI platform and deliver even more value to our customers.”
The recent acquisition deal fuses Dataminr’s real-time public data signals with ThreatConnect’s internal intelligence management environment, enabling customers to detect threats earlier, prioritize risks and coordinate response across physical, digital and cyber domains. Dataminr has positioned the integration as the foundation for what it calls an agentic AI-powered, client-tailored intelligence platform, with AI agents processing internal and external data streams in real time.
In April, Dataminr secured a $100 million convertible loan to advance the development of Gen AI and agentic AI products for corporations and governments. By October, it announced the expanded deployment of its Intel Agents, extending agentic AI beyond cyber risk into corporate security, public safety and news intelligence use cases.
