Tech Interviews
Why TWO99 is Rethinking Cloud Marketing with Compliance, Data, and Agility
How does TWO 99 ensure its Cloud Security Solution remain compliant with evolving international data privacy laws like GDPR and HIPAA?
Two99’s cloud-native security solutions—including CNAPP, CWPP, and CSPM—are engineered to align with evolving international data privacy regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA through a proactive, multi-layered compliance framework. Our platforms integrate automated policy enforcement and real-time security posture monitoring to enable rapid detection and remediation of compliance deviations.
As an ISO 27001:2022 certified organization, we maintain a robust Information Security Management System (ISMS) that embeds data protection, risk assessments, and regular audits into our core operations. In parallel, our ISO 9001:2015 certification underscores our commitment to rigorous quality management processes, allowing agile adaptation to global regulatory shifts.
Our compliance team continuously monitors international privacy standards, translating insights into operational controls and product enhancements. We enforce stringent data storage protocols, including encryption of data at rest and in transit using advanced cryptographic methods, along with secure key management and policy-driven data retention and deletion.
Regular internal evaluations and third-party audits further validate our security posture, ensuring that Two99’s offerings not only meet but consistently exceed global data protection standards.
Given your background with WPP and GroupM, how has your approach to digital transformation changed since founding TWO 99?
My experience with WPP and GroupM provided invaluable insights into how large-scale organizations operate—especially in terms of process, structure, and scalability. However, founding TWO99 marked a deliberate shift toward a more agile, innovation-driven approach to digital transformation. At TWO99, we focus on vertical-agnostic scalability, bringing together technology, creativity, and performance under a unified, adaptable framework.
Unlike traditional holding companies that often operate within rigid silos, our model emphasizes speed, flexibility, and integration. We’ve built an ecosystem that allows us to pivot quickly, test rapidly, and deploy solutions that are customized to the dynamic needs of each client. This is especially critical in emerging markets like India, where consumer behaviors and platform trends evolve at breakneck speed.
Our approach moves away from isolated service offerings and instead delivers end-to-end growth strategies—from brand storytelling to performance marketing—under one roof. This integrated engine not only accelerates ROI but also empowers clients to scale more efficiently across diverse industries and geographies.
Ultimately, digital transformation at TWO99 is not about adopting new tools; it’s about building a mindset of experimentation, collaboration, and continual evolution—something that’s only possible when tech, creative, and media are not just coexisting, but co-creating.
You speak a lot about growth marketing—what’s one underused strategy or tool you believe more startups should adopt?
One of the most underutilized yet high-impact strategies in growth marketing today is predictive audience modeling—specifically using first-party data to anticipate user behavior before a customer even shows active intent. In the rush to acquire users, many startups focus heavily on performance spend and surface-level targeting, often missing the opportunity to build smarter, more efficient pipelines through data-driven foresight.
By leveraging tools like AI-powered lookalike modeling or Google’s AutoML, companies can identify emerging patterns and preemptively segment high-intent audiences. These platforms analyze behavioral signals—ranging from product interactions and website heatmaps to backend signals like GitHub commits or CRM workflows—to spot trends that traditional analytics would miss.
At TWO99, we’ve seen transformative results with this approach. For instance, by layering multiple intent signals (e.g., developer activity, trial-to-paid movement, sales pipeline stages) and combining them with Dynamic Creative Optimization (DCO), we helped a SaaS client reduce their Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) by over 30%. This wasn’t just about targeting more people—it was about targeting the right people, at the right time, with the right message.
Startups that embrace predictive modeling early in their growth journey can shift from reactive marketing to proactive growth engineering, ultimately driving better ROI, faster time to conversion, and more sustainable customer relationships.
At TWO 99, how do you balance creative innovation with data-driven performance when leading campaigns for tech and cloud-based clients?
At TWO99, we treat data as the creative brief—a philosophy that helps us seamlessly bridge creative storytelling with performance marketing, especially for tech and cloud-based clients. Rather than starting with assumptions or generic messaging, we begin with behavioral analytics and first-party data to uncover real pain points, usage patterns, and moments of friction within the user journey.
This insight-driven approach allows us to craft narratives that aren’t just imaginative, but deeply relevant and conversion-focused. For example, if product analytics show a drop-off at the integration stage, our creative strategy might revolve around simplifying technical complexity or highlighting seamless onboarding. In this way, the campaign’s message is directly informed by what users are experiencing, not just what the brand wants to say.
We also continuously A/B test creative iterations—from copy to visual formats—to fine-tune performance in real time. For tech and cloud clients, where the buyer journey is often complex and multi-touch, this balance of data and creativity ensures that each piece of content not only captures attention but drives measurable outcomes like engagement, sign-ups, or qualified leads.
In short, we don’t see data and creativity as separate tracks. At TWO99, one fuels the other—creating high-performance campaigns that are not only intelligent but emotionally resonant.