Sanjay Vyas is vice president and general manager of Managed Services for Arcot Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, Calif., a leader in online security / fraud detection / strong authentication. 

He has a wealth of experience in engineering, product delivery, customer support and thought leadership in cloud computing. In his current position, Vyas advises global financial institutions, credit-card issuers, payment banks and MNCs on their considerations of premises-based or hosted or hybrid cloud computing solutions – including ROI. 

A former engineering manager and director of payment systems at Arcot, Vyas was instrumental in delivering Arcot's ePayment products to the marketplace and he led the delivery of a key Arcot product suite to thousands of credit-card issuers and millions of cardholders worldwide. 

A vice president at Arcot since 2006, Vyas previously worked for vJungle. He holds a bachelor's degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and an MBA from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. 

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