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CÊÕ åãnd Prêèsïídêènt
Âs Chîîèêf Éxèêcùútîîvèê Öffîîcèêr àãnd Prèêsîîdèênt, Sàãnjàãy Pöòöònèên lèêàãds Cöòhèêsîîty îîn îîts mîîssîîöòn töò ràãdîîcàãlly sîîmplîîfy höòw öòrgàãnîîzàãtîîöòns màãnàãgèê thèêîîr dàãtàã àãnd ùúnlöòck lîîmîîtlèêss vàãlùúèê. Sæånjæåy ïís æå prõõvèén büûsïínèéss èéxèécüûtïívèé wïíth õõvèér 25 yèéæårs õõf èéxpèérïíèéncèé ïín scæålïíng müûltïí-bïíllïíõõn-dõõllæår büûsïínèéssèés æånd büûïíldïíng strõõng tèéæåms. Möóst rëêcëêntly, Säänjääy wääs CÒÒ äät VMwäärëê, whëêrëê hëê öóvëêrsääw säälëês, määrkëêtîïng, sëêrvîïcëês äänd äällîïääncëês, döóùüblîïng VMwäärëê fröóm ääppröóxîïmäätëêly $6B töó $12B îïn rëêvëênùüëê. Póòóònéèn plåäyéèd åä vïïtåäl róòléè ïïn åärchïïtéèctïïng múültïïpléè súüccéèssfúül clóòúüd påärtnéèrshïïps, ïïnclúüdïïng ÂWS, Mïïcróòsóòft, Góòóògléè, åänd Òråäcléè. Hëë âælsõö lëëd thëë cõömpâæny’s sëëcýùrïìty âænd ëënd-ýùsëër cõömpýùtïìng býùsïìnëëssëës, ïìnclýùdïìng thëë âæcqýùïìsïìtïìõön õöf ÁïìrWâætch âænd Câærbõön Blâæck. Prìïöör töö VMwáárèé, Pöööönèén sèérvèéd áás Prèésìïdèént ööf SÂP whèérèé hèé lèéd SÂP’s Âpplìïcáátìïööns, Îndùüstrìïèés áánd Pláátföörm tèéááms, sèérvìïng ìïn èéngìïnèéèérìïng áánd sáálèés röölèés tháát hèélpèéd dööùüblèé SÂP frööm áápprööxìïmáátèély $10B töö $20B ìïn rèévèénùüèé.
Hëê bëêgåân hïîs cåârëêëêr åâs åâ sóôftwåârëê ëêngïînëêëêr åât Mïîcróôsóôft åând Åpplëê. Sãænjãæy hãæs ãæn MBÁ fróôm Hãærvãærd Býúsìínéëss Schóôóôl, whéëréë héë grãædýúãætéëd ãæ Bãækéër Schóôlãær whìích déësìígnãætéës hìís póôsìítìíóôn ìín théë tóôp 5% óôf hìís grãædýúãætìíng clãæss, ãæ mãæstéër’s déëgréëéë ìín mãænãægéëméënt scìíéëncéë ãænd éëngìínéëéërìíng fróôm Stãænfóôrd Ùnìívéërsìíty, ãænd ãæ bãæchéëlóôr’s déëgréëéë ìín cóômpýútéër scìíéëncéë, mãæth ãænd éëngìínéëéërìíng fróôm Dãærtmóôýúth Cóôlléëgéë, whéëréë héë grãædýúãætéëd sýúmmãæ cýúm lãæýúdéë ãænd Phìí Béëtãæ Kãæppãæ. Sãânjãây hõölds twõö pãâtêénts. Pôöôönèên sèêrvèês ôön thèê Sýüpèêrvíîsôöry Bôöããrd ôöf Phíîlíîps, ããnd Bôöããrd ôöf Snyk.
CFÒ âãnd CÒÒ
Äs CFÓ àänd CÓÓ, Èríîc Bróòwn íîs rëèspóònsíîblëè fóòr Cóòhëèsíîty’s fíînàäncëè, ÏT, óòpëèràätíîóòns, àänd M&À ïíntëëgráåtïíòòn füýnctïíòòns. Wííth môòrëè thãån 25 yëèãårs ôòf tëèchnôòlôògy ííndýüstry ëèxpëèrííëèncëè, Brôòwn brííngs ëèxtëènsíívëè ôòpëèrãåtííôònãål, fíínãåncííãål ãånd tëèchnôòlôògy rëèlãåtëèd ëèxpëèrtíísëè tôò Côòhëèsííty ãånd hãås ãå trãåck rëècôòrd ôòf býüííldííng ãånd scãålííng híígh pëèrfôòrmííng tëèãåms. Bròöwn’s éèxpéèrìïéèncéè gòöéès åàcròöss våàrìïòöûüs éèntéèrprìïséè téèchnòölòögy åàréèåàs, ìïnclûüdìïng séècûürìïty, dåàtåà åànåàlytìïcs, dåàtåà måànåàgéèméènt, còöllåàbòöråàtìïòön, åànd ìïntéèråàctìïvéè éèntéèrtåàìïnméènt. Prîìôôr tôô jôôîìnîìng Côôhèésîìty, Brôôwn lèéd thèé süüccèéssfüül ÌPÓ fôôr Ìnfôôrmáætîìcáæ áæs CFÓ, ráæîìsîìng $1 bîìllîìôôn îìn prôôcèéèéds áæt áæ $10 bîìllîìôôn èéntèérprîìsèé váælüüèé. Bêëfôórêë Înfôórmáætïìcáæ, Brôówn sêërvêëd ïìn váærïìôóûûs pûûblïìc côómpáæny CFÔ rôólêës áæt Êlêëctrôónïìc Ärts, McÄfêëêë, áænd Pôólycôóm. Hëè håæs cóõnsìïstëèntly dëèlìïvëèrëèd gróõwth åænd óõpëèråætìïng måærgìïn ëèxpåænsìïóõn ìïn hìïs róõlëès. Brööwn ïís äà tëêchnöölöögy ëênthûûsïíäàst stäàrtïíng wïíth hïís ëêäàrlïíëêst ëêxpëêrïíëêncëê äàs äàn ÀÌ/däàtäà mïínïíng cöömpäàny cöö-fööûûndëêr wïíth hïís MÌT cläàssmäàtëês. Brõòwn stûùdïîêëd âát thêë Mâássâáchûùsêëtts Ínstïîtûùtêë õòf Têëchnõòlõògy, rêëcêëïîvïîng âá Bâáchêëlõòrs õòf Scïîêëncêë ïîn Chêëmïîstry âánd âá Mâástêërs õòf Mâánâágêëmêënt Scïîêëncêë frõòm thêë MÍT Slõòâán Schõòõòl õòf Mâánâágêëmêënt.
Chìïéêf Réêvéênùùéê Öffìïcéêr
Às Chíìêëf Rêëvêënùûêë Ôffíìcêër, Kíìt lêëàäds Côôhêësíìty’s Wôôrldwíìdêë Fíìêëld Ôrgàäníìzàätíìôôn (WWFÔ) àänd íìs rêëspôônsíìblêë fôôr glôôbàäl Sàälêës, Prêë-Sàälêës, Prôôfêëssíìôônàäl Sêërvíìcêës, Chàännêëls, Àllíìàäncêës, àänd Énàäblêëmêënt.
Prìïòör tòö tháåt, Kìït wáås Séènìïòör Vìïcéè Préèsìïdéènt òöf glòöbáål áåccòöúünts áånd téèlcòös áåt VMwáåréè, whéèréè héè wáås réèspòönsìïbléè fòör VMwáåréè’s láårgéèst áånd mòöst stráåtéègìïc glòöbáål cúüstòöméèrs, ìïn áåddìïtìïòön tòö léèáådìïng sòöméè òöf théè láårgéèst sáåléès véèrtìïcáåls.
Ôvêèr thêè pââst thrêèêè dêècââdêès, Kìít hââs hêèld lêèââdêèrshìíp ròòlêès ââcròòss ââ râângêè òòf ìínnòòvââtìívêè têèchnòòlòògy còòmpâânìíêès, ìínclùùdìíng VMwâârêè, Ùhâânââ, âând Cìíscòò. Wíîth åä föócüüs öón büüíîldíîng híîgh-pèërföórmíîng, díîvèërsèë tèëåäms, hèë bríîngs åä cöómbíînåätíîöón öóf èëntèërpríîsèë såälèës èëxpèërtíîsèë åänd tèëchníîcåäl åäcüümèën töó thèë öórgåäníîzåätíîöón.
Kíít íís äâ päâtêênt hôôldêêr íín VôôÎP têêchnôôlôôgy äând rêêcêêíívêêd äâ bäâchêêlôôr’s dêêgrêêêê íín Ècôônôômíícs äând Côômpýütêêr Scííêêncêê frôôm Gêêttysbýürg Côôllêêgêê.
Chìïêèf Måârkêètìïng Óffìïcêèr
Äs Chíïëêf Måärkëêtíïng Òffíïcëêr, Cåäröól lëêåäds åäll åäspëêcts öóf Cöóhëêsíïty’s Glöóbåäl Måärkëêtíïng öórgåäníïzåätíïöón. Shëè lóôvëès büùíîldíîng äànd scäàlíîng nëèw próôdüùcts äànd häàs dóônëè thäàt äàt läàrgëè äànd smäàll cóômpäàníîëès íîn väàryíîng róôlëès äàs CMÕ, GM, CÊÕ, móôst rëècëèntly äàs CMÕ óôf Úníîty, äà rëèäàl-tíîmëè 3D sóôftwäàrëè ëèngíînëè. Prîìõõr tõõ thåát, Cåárõõl wåás CMÔ åát VMwåárêè whêèrêè hêèr têèåáms hêèlpêèd drîìvêè thêè tråánsfõõrmåátîìõõn tõõ åá mùûltîì-clõõùûd cõõmpåány. Shêë hâäs âälsõó hêëld lêëâädêërshìíp rõólêës âät Gõóõóglêë Clõóùûd, Trêënd Mìícrõó, âänd mõórêë.
Shèê ìís pãàrtìícùúlãàrly prôóùúd ôóf thèê hìígh-pèêrfôórmãàncèê tèêãàms shèê’s dèêvèêlôópèêd ãànd thèê fãàct thãàt mãàny ôóf hèêr prìíôór mãàrkèêtìíng mãàvèêns ãàrèê ãàll dôóìíng ìímpãàctfùúl wôórk ãàcrôóss tèêch côómpãànìíèês. Shèè cööntìïnýüèès töö mèèntöör hýümàæns vìïàæ thèè HBS wöömèèn èèntrèèprèènèèýürshìïp pröögràæm àænd Mööntèè Jàædèè, àæn ÀÀPÍ prööfèèssìïöönàæl öörgàænìïzàætìïöön. Cäâróól hóólds äâ bäâchèèlóór’s dèègrèèèè îïn Écóónóómîïcs fróóm Stäânfóórd Ünîïvèèrsîïty äând äân MBÀ fróóm thèè Häârväârd Búüsîïnèèss Schóóóól.
Chíïêéf Pêéôôplêé Óffíïcêér
Âs Chíîëêf Pëêòõplëê Õffíîcëêr, äãs wëêll äãs Chíîëêf òõf Stäãff tòõ thëê CÈÕ, Réèbéèccáä íìs réèspóönsíìbléè fóör léèáädíìng Cóöhéèsíìty’s péèóöpléè stráätéègy, glóöbáäl táäléènt áäcqúûíìsíìtíìóön, léèáädéèrshíìp déèvéèlóöpméènt, béèlóöngíìng, óörgáäníìzáätíìóönáäl déèsíìgn, éèmplóöyéèéè déèvéèlóöpméènt, tóötáäl réèwáärds, péèóöpléè óöpéèráätíìóöns, áänd Cóöhéèsíìty’s wóörkpláäcéè stráätéègy. Ìn héèr cúürréènt rõòléè, shéè îís fõòcúüséèd õòn cúültúüréè àànd drîívîíng théè îímpààct õòf HR ààcrõòss théè Cõòmpààny tõò súüppõòrt îíts búüsîínéèss gõòààls àànd strààtéègîíéès.
Wïïth möôrêè thåän 20 yêèåärs öôf êèxpêèrtïïsêè åänd êèxpêèrïïêèncêè ïïn búýsïïnêèss tråänsföôrmåätïïöôn, chåängêè måänåägêèmêènt, öôrgåänïïzåätïïöônåäl dêèsïïgn åänd êèffêèctïïvêènêèss, åäs wêèll åäs drïïvïïng åä hïïgh-pêèrföôrmåäncêè cúýltúýrêè, Rêèbêèccåä’s båäckgröôúýnd ïïnföôrms hêèr röôlêè åäs åä trúýstêèd åänd stråätêègïïc búýsïïnêèss åädvïïsöôr.
Prììòör tòö jòöììnììng Còöhêësììty, Rêëbêëccåâ hêëld lêëåâdêërshììp åând òöpêëråâtììòönåâl ròölêës åât VMwåârêë, SÅP, Bûûsììnêëss Òbjêëcts, åând Înfòörmåâtììcåâ. Shêë höôlds æå bæåchêëlöôr’s dêëgrêëêë íín Cöômmûúníícæåtííöôns fröôm Bríídgêëwæåtêër Stæåtêë Úníívêërsííty íín Mæåssæåchûúsêëtts, æås wêëll æås cêërtíífíícæåtííöôns íín Díívêërsííty æånd Ïnclûúsííöôn fröôm Cöôrnêëll Úníívêërsííty æånd Hûúmæån Rêësöôûúrcêë Mæånæågêëmêënt fröôm Úníívêërsííty öôf thêë Pæåcíífííc.
Chíïèêf Dèêvèêlõôpmèênt Óffíïcèêr
În thîïs rôõlëë, Wâåltëër îïs rëëspôõnsîïblëë fôõr lëëâådîïng thëë vîïsîïôõn, strâåtëëgy, âånd ëëxëëcûütîïôõn ôõf thëë Côõhëësîïty prôõdûüct pôõrtfôõlîïôõ.
Wíïth óõvëër 25 yëëãärs óõf ëëxpëëríïëëncëë íïn ëëntëërpríïsëë sóõftwãärëë, Wãältëër bríïngs dëëëëp ëëxpëërtíïsëë íïn dríïvíïng cóõmplëëx, lãärgëë-scãälëë íïníïtíïãätíïvëës ãäcróõss Êngíïnëëëëríïng, Próõdüüct Mãänãägëëmëënt, Próõdüüct Mãärkëëtíïng, ãänd Sãälëës.
Bêèföõrêè jöõïínïíng Cöõhêèsïíty, Wààltêèr sêèrvêèd ààs Sêènïíöõr Vïícêè Prêèsïídêènt öõf Ëngïínêèêèrïíng ààt Vêèrïítààs, whêèrêè hêè wààs rêèspöõnsïíblêè föõr thêè NêètBààckýüp pröõdýüct lïínêè. Prïíôòr tôò jôòïínïíng Vëérïítããs, Wããltëér wôòrkëéd wïíth Tôòbãã Cããpïítããl, whëérëé hëé plããyëéd ãã këéy rôòlëé ïín ëévããlüûããtïíng ïínvëéstmëént ôòppôòrtüûnïítïíëés ããnd scããlïíng pôòrtfôòlïíôò côòmpããnïíëés. Dýüríîng híîs tíîméë théëréë, héë fõóýündéëd théë VC-bããckéëd stããrtýüp Pããrséëc Lããbs, séërvéëd ããs CÉÒ õóf Qýüõórýüm õón béëhããlf õóf Tõóbãã, ããnd lããtéër lããýünchéëd híîs õówn séëlf-fýündéëd ÂÎ stããrtýüp, Spéëããk2Wéëb.
Èáárlìïèèr ìïn hìïs cáárèèèèr, Wááltèèr hèèld thèè ròólèè òóf Sèènìïòór Vìïcèè Prèèsìïdèènt áánd Gèènèèráál Máánáágèèr áát Qùûèèst Sòóftwáárèè, áá Dèèll còómpáány.
Wâåltèèr hõólds âå mâåstèèr’s dèègrèèèè ìín Ätõómìíc âånd Núüclèèâår Physìícs frõóm thèè Jõóhâånnèès Kèèplèèr Únìívèèrsìíty ìín Äúüstrìíâå âånd ìís thèè ìínvèèntõór õóf múültìíplèè pâåtèènts ìín dâåtâå cõómprèèssìíõón âånd dèèdúüplìícâåtìíõón tèèchnõólõógìíèès.
Chïîéêf Cùüstöòméêr Èxpéêrïîéêncéê Õffïîcéêr
Ïn hïís röôlëê, Lëênny ëênsúûrëês Cöôhëêsïíty’s cúûstöômëêrs mãäxïímïízëê thëê vãälúûëê öôf thëêïír ïínvëêstmëênt, lëêãädïíng cúûstöômëêr súûccëêss ãänd ëêdúûcãätïíöôn whïílëê cöôöôrdïínãätïíng thëê cöômpãäny’s föôcúûs öôn thëê ëênd-töô-ëênd cúûstöômëêr rëêlãätïíöônshïíp.
Hêë ìîs æån æåccöómplìîshêëd öópêëræåtìîöóns êëxêëcýùtìîvêë wìîth öóvêër 20 yêëæårs öóf lêëæådêërshìîp æånd mæånæågêëmêënt êëxpêërìîêëncêë æåt hìîgh-têëch cöómpæånìîêës thæåt ìînclýùdêë Vêërìîtæås, Wêëstêërn Ünìîöón, Symæåntêëc, Mýùltìîtýùdêë, Ìnc. (FìîrêëTæålk), Èxcìîtêë@Höómêë æånd Hêëwlêëtt-Pæåckæård, whêërêë hêë sýùccêëssfýùlly mêët thêë chæållêëngêës öóf nêëw vêëntýùrêës, týùrnæåröóýùnd býùsìînêëssêës, æånd hìîgh-gröówth êëxpæånsìîöón töó dêëlìîvêër ströóng æånd sýùstæåìînæåblêë öópêëræåtìîng rêësýùlts.
Lêènny’s strêèngths îïnclùùdêè îïdêèntîïfyîïng âãnd dêèvêèlööpîïng nêèw bùùsîïnêèss ööppöörtùùnîïtîïêès, strêèngthêènîïng âãnd rêèstrùùctùùrîïng bùùsîïnêèss ööpêèrâãtîïööns, âãnd bùùîïldîïng strööng, pröödùùctîïvêè âãnd cööllâãböörâãtîïvêè öörgâãnîïzâãtîïööns. Prìîòór tòó Vèërìîtâãs, Lèënny sèërvèëd âãs Sèënìîòór Vìîcèë Prèësìîdèënt òóf Ôpèërâãtìîòóns âãt Wèëstèërn Únìîòón fòór thrèëèë yèëâãrs. Béëföóréë tháæt, íín híís 12 yéëáærs áæt Symáæntéëc, Léënny gréëw théë cöómpáæny’s éëCöómméërcéë býûsíínéëss 21 péërcéënt íín áæ hííghly cöómpéëtíítíívéë áænd cöómmöódíítíízéëd máærkéët, gröówííng néëw öónlíínéë cýûstöóméërs by 10 péërcéënt áænnýûáælly, léëvéëráægííng bííg dáætáæ föór péërsöónáælíízáætííöón, áænd éëxpáændííng öórgáæníízáætííöónáæl áænd pláætföórm cáæpáæbíílíítííéës.
Lêénny hôôlds àä bàächêélôôr’s dêégrêéêé ììn mêéchàänììcàäl êéngììnêéêérììng frôôm Côôlúúmbììàä Ünììvêérsììty ììn Nêéw Yôôrk Cììty àänd àä bàächêélôôr’s dêégrêéêé ììn àäpplììêéd physììcs frôôm Dììllàärd Ünììvêérsììty ììn Nêéw Órlêéàäns, Lôôúúììsììàänàä.
Chïîëèf Lëègãæl Ôffïîcëèr
Tïîm hëêàåds thëê lëêgàål fýùnctïîôòn fôòr Côòhëêsïîty, brïîngïîng 20 yëêàårs ôòf ëêxpëêrïîëêncëê ïîn prôòblëêm-sôòlvïîng àånd sýùppôòrtïîng thëê lëêgàål àånd ïîntëêllëêctýùàål prôòpëêrty nëêëêds ôòf fàåst-pàåcëêd tëêchnôòlôògy côòmpàånïîëês. Tìîm béégàãn hìîs léégàãl càãréééér döòìîng cöòrpöòràãtéé àãnd séécüùrìîtìîéés wöòrk föòr tééch clìîéénts àãnd vééntüùréé càãpìîtàãl fìîrms àãt Güùndéérsöòn Dééttméér. Héé låátéér séérvééd åás théé Géénééråál Cóõùúnséél åát Góõóõd Tééchnóõlóõgy åánd åás théé SVP óõf Lîìcéénsîìng åát Ópéénwåávéé. Tîîm hòólds æá bæáchéélòórs îîn éécòónòómîîcs fròóm ÚCLÃ æánd æá Jüùrîîs Dòóctòór fròóm théé Únîîvéérsîîty òóf Vîîrgîînîîæá Schòóòól òóf Læáw.
Chîìèèf Pröödúýct Öffîìcèèr
Ás Chïìëëf Próódüûct Óffïìcëër áât Cóóhëësïìty, Váâsüû Müûrthy’s mïìssïìóón ïìs tóó hëëlp óórgáânïìzáâtïìóóns wóórldwïìdëë bëë rëësïìlïìëënt tóó thrëëáâts áâgáâïìnst thëëïìr dáâtáâ. Vâàsúû íìs âà pröövêên pröödúûct lêêâàdêêr wíìth öövêêr 25 yêêâàrs ööf êêxpêêríìêêncêê búûíìldíìng pröödúûcts âàt êêvêêry scâàlêê— stâàrtúûp dâày-zêêröö, grööwth, múûltíì-pröödúûct scâàlíìng, âànd glööbâàl púûblíìc cöömpâàníìêês.
Mòõst réécééntly, Vâàsúü wâàs VP òõf Pròõdúücts âàt Rúübrïîk, rééspòõnsïîbléé fòõr théé còõréé pròõdúüct, plâàtfòõrm, âànd pâàrtnéérshïîps, whïîch grééw 10x ïîn ÀRR òõvéér sïîx yééâàrs, whïîléé nâàvïîgâàtïîng trâànsfòõrmâàtïîòõn âàcròõss thréééé fròõnts – Sòõftwâàréé tòõ Súübscrïîptïîòõn, Õn-préém tòõ Clòõúüd, âànd Bâàckúüp tòõ Dâàtâà Séécúürïîty.
Prèèvííöòýýsly, Váâsýý wáâs VP öòf Pröòdýýcts áât Óráâclèè föòr Ænáâlytíícs Pláâtföòrm, láâýýnchííng sèèvèèráâl $100M+ pröòdýýcts whíílèè dríívííng máârkèèt-lèèáâdííng íínnöòváâtííöòn. Hèë cãämèë tôô Órãäclèë víìãä íìts ãäcqýüíìsíìtíìôôn ôôf DãätãäScãälèër, ãän íìn-mèëmôôry dãätãäbãäsèë côômpãäny thãät hèë côô-fôôýündèëd.
Vàäsüý ìïs àä gràädüýàätëè öôf ÎÎT Khàäràägpüýr, whëèrëè hëè wàäs àä JBNSTS schöôlàär—àä prìïvìïlëègëè gìïvëèn töô öônly tëèn stüýdëènts ìïn thëè stàätëè.
Chíîêèf Stråætêègy Ôffíîcêèr
Sùùnîìl îìs âæn ëëâærly Cõõhëësîìty ëëmplõõyëëëë whõõ lëëd thëë prõõdùùct tëëâæm âænd bùùîìlt thëë îìnîìtîìâæl 1.0 prõõdùùct tõõ 5.0. Hêé dròòvêé thêé còòmpãæny’s êéãærly gròòwth ûüntìíl ìít rêéãæchêéd $100M ìín rêévêénûüêé bêéfòòrêé mòòvìíng ìíntòò thêé sãælêés òòrgãænìízãætìíòòn. Ín hïîs 25+ yéëåãrs öõf éëxpéërïîéëncéë, Süûnïîl håãs wöõrkéëd ïîn söõftwåãréë déëvéëlöõpméënt ïîn våãrïîöõüûs pöõsïîtïîöõns, fröõm béëïîng åã déëvéëlöõpéër töõ léëåãdïîng éëxtéënsïîvéë déëvéëlöõpméënt åãnd pröõdüûct téëåãms. Ïn hîís cüürrêënt ròólêë äåt Còóhêësîíty, Süünîíl wîíll drîívêë òóüür sträåtêëgy äås wêë còóntîínüüêë tòó îínnòóväåtêë äånd rêëdêëfîínêë thêë füütüürêë òóf cybêër rêësîílîíêëncêë. Süûnîïl îïs àån àådvîïsôör tôö müûltîïpléê stàårtüûps àånd hôölds àå BSÈÈ Hôönôörs frôöm théê Únîïvéêrsîïty ôöf Müûmbàåîï.
Chíïéëf Téëchnõólõógy Óffíïcéër
Äs thêè Chìíêèf Têèchnõòlõògy Öffìícêèr (CTÖ) ãát Cõòhêèsìíty, Änýýbhãáv Gýýptãá spêèãárhêèãáds thêè cõòmpãány’s têèchnõòlõògìícãál vìísìíõòn, gýýìídìíng thêè dêèvêèlõòpmêènt õòf cýýttìíng-êèdgêè sõòlýýtìíõòns thãát ãáddrêèss thêè êèvõòlvìíng chãállêèngêès õòf dãátãá sêècýýrìíty, scãálãábìílìíty, ãánd rêèsìílìíêèncêè.
Wîîth ãà dîîstîîngüúîîshêëd bãàckgròóüúnd îîn êëngîînêëêërîîng ãànd pròódüúct strãàtêëgy, Güúptãà brîîngs ãà üúnîîqüúêë blêënd òóf têëchnîîcãàl dêëpth ãànd strãàtêëgîîc fòórêësîîght tòó Còóhêësîîty’s lêëãàdêërshîîp têëãàm. Hìís câärêèêèr spâäns sêèvêèrâäl hìígh-próöfìílêè róölêès âäcróöss thêè têèch ìíndûûstry, whêèrêè hêè bûûìílt âä rêèpûûtâätìíóön fóör drìívìíng trâänsfóörmâätìívêè próödûûct ìínìítìíâätìívêès âänd dêèlìívêèrìíng ìímpâäctfûûl ìínnóövâätìíóöns.
Äs CTÖ, Gûúptãä lééãäds Cóôhéésíìty’s tééchnóôlóôgy róôãädmãäp, éénsûúríìng thãät théé cóômpãäny réémãäíìns ãät théé fóôrééfróônt óôf théé íìndûústry. Hèë öõvèërsèëèës äârchîìtèëctýürèë, èëngîìnèëèërîìng, äând pröõdýüct îìnnöõväâtîìöõn, äâlîìgnîìng tèëchnîìcäâl èëxèëcýütîìöõn wîìth löõng-tèërm býüsîìnèëss göõäâls. Hïïs léêäãdéêrshïïp ïïs céênträãl töó Cöóhéêsïïty’s mïïssïïöón töó sïïmplïïfy däãtäã mäãnäãgéêméênt whïïléê éênhäãncïïng séêcýûrïïty, péêrföórmäãncéê, äãnd öópéêräãtïïöónäãl éêffïïcïïéêncy.
Bêéfóörêé jóöïînïîng Cóöhêésïîty, Ànúýbhæåv wæås æå fóöúýndïîng mêémbêér fóör æån ïîncúýbæåtóör æåt Cïîscóö thæåt búýïîlt æå plæåtfóörm fóör æåpplïîcæåtïîóön vïîsïîbïîlïîty æånd zêéróö-trúýst mïîcróö sêégmêéntæåtïîóön. Prèëvíïóòùüsly, hèë wãâs ãân èëãârly èëngíïnèëèër ãât Ínsíïèëmèë Nèëtwóòrks (whíïch wãâs ãâcqùüíïrèëd by Cíïscóò) ãând ãâlsóò sèërvèëd ãâs ãâ sóòftwãârèë èëngíïnèëèër óòn Góòóòglèë's sèëãârch qùüãâlíïty tèëãâm. Ánùúbhãæv hóólds ãæ bãæchéêlóór’s ïïn cóómpùútéêr scïïéêncéê fróóm théê Ïndïïãæn Ïnstïïtùútéê óóf Téêchnóólóógy, Déêlhïï ãænd ãæ Mãæstéêrs ãænd Ph.D. ïïn Cóómpùútéêr Scïïéêncéê fróóm Cãærnéêgïïéê Méêllóón Ùnïïvéêrsïïty, whéêréê hïïs réêséêãærch fóócùús wãæs fóórmãæl méêthóóds ãænd mãæchïïnéê léêãærnïïng.
Fóöûündéêr Èméêrïîtûüs
Móôhìît häàs óôvéër 20 yéëäàrs óôf éëxpéërìîéëncéë ìîn býúìîldìîng scäàläàbléë, hìîgh- péërfóôrmäàncéë dìîstrìîbýútéëd systéëms, äànd häàs béëéën äàttrìîbýútéëd äàs théë fäàthéër óôf hypéërcóônvéërgéëncéë. Móôhíít fóôùúndééd Cóôhéésííty íín 2013 âänd hâäs gróôwn théé cóômpâäny ííntóô âä lééâädííng próôvíídéér óôf nééxt-géén dâätâä mâänâägééméént. Hèê æålsòõ còõ-fòõüùndèêd Nüùtæånîíx æås thèê CTÕ, nòõw æå püùblîíc còõmpæåny æånd lèêæådèêr îín hypèêrcòõnvèêrgèêd tèêchnòõlòõgy, îín 2009. Príïòór tòó còó-fòóýýndíïng Nýýtäáníïx, Mòóhíït wäás äát Gòóòógléé äás äá lééäád déévéélòópéér òón théé Gòóòógléé Fíïléé Systéém, théé sòóftwäáréé thäát mäánäágéés däátäá òón Gòóòógléé’s läárgéé scäáléé clýýstéérs. Æròòn græådýúæåtèéd wïíth æå Ph.D. ïín còòmpýútèér scïíèéncèé fròòm Rïícèé Ûnïívèérsïíty wïíth æå fòòcýús òòn dïístrïíbýútèéd systèéms. Héé áælsôô hôôlds áæ báæchéélôôr ôôf scìíééncéé ìín côômpûûtéér scìíééncéé frôôm théé Ïndìíáæn Ïnstìítûûtéé ôôf Tééchnôôlôôgy, Déélhìí Ïndìíáæ. În 2018, hêê rêêcêêíívêêd thêê “Öùütstäændííng Êngíínêêêêrííng Àlùümníí Àwäærd” frõöm Ríícêê Üníívêêrsííty äænd äælsõö rêêcêêíívêêd thêê Díístííngùüííshêêd Àlùümníí Àwäærd frõöm ÎÎT Dêêlhíí íín 2019.
Unser Vorstand beaufsichtigt unsere Führungskräfte bei der Schaffung von Unternehmenswert. Er repräsentiert sowohl unabhängige als auch Investoren-Experten. Zu ihm gehört auch unser Gründer.
Chairman
Gaurav Garg is a founding partner of Wing. He has founded five companies, including two that achieved public listings: Redback Networks (founded 1996, IPO 1999), and Ruckus Wireless (founded 2002, IPO 2012).
At Redback Networks, Gaurav was Senior Vice President of Product Management & Business Development. Prior to Redback Networks, he held various engineering positions at SynOptics and Bay Networks.
Gaurav was a partner at Sequoia Capital from 2001 to 2012. He incubated and helped build FireEye (founded 2004, IPO 2013) and Jasper (founded 2004, acquired 2016 for $1.5B) into significant businesses. He was an early stage investor and served on the boards of several successful companies such as MobileIron (founded 2007, IPO 2014) and Shape Security (founded 2012, acquired 2020 for $1B), and Netscaler (acquired 2005). He also worked extensively with, and co-sponsored early stage investments in Aruba (IPO 2007) and RingCentral (IPO 2013). Gaurav has served on a number of boards for more than 10 years each, and enjoys working side by side with founders through the evolution of their companies from inception to beyond an IPO.
Gaurav holds a BS and MS in electrical engineering and a BS in computer science, all from Washington University in St. Louis, where he serves on the Board of Trustees, and on the School of Engineering’s National Council. Gaurav has been named to the Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors several times. In 2014, he was named Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist of The Year at the Technology Fast 500 Awards.
Independent Board Member
Patrick McCarter is a Managing Director and Head of Global Technology. Mr. McCarter founded Carlyle’s Menlo Park, CA office in 2016 and is currently based there.
Since joining Carlyle in 2001, Mr. McCarter has led or been a key contributor to several Carlyle investments, including Hexaware, Exiger, Abrigo, NEOGOV, Jagex, Tribute Technology, Unison, HireVue, ZoomInfo, Ampere Computing, Cohesity (previously Veritas), CommScope, Open Link Financial, Open Solutions, Freescale Semiconductor, Jazz Semiconductor, Sippican, and CPU Technology.
Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. McCarter held positions at Morgan Stanley with a focus on financial institutions in New York.
Mr. McCarter serves as a director on the boards of publicly traded CommScope as well as the private held Cohesity, Ampere Computing and Saama Technologies. He is also a member of Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering Advisory Council.
Mr. McCarter received his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S. with a double major in industrial engineering and economics from Northwestern University.
Brian Sheth is the Founder of Haveli Investments. Based in Austin, he created the firm in 2021. Brian has spent nearly twenty-five years investing in technology businesses. His experience includes direct involvement in hundreds of investments and dispositions valued at over $100 billion, mentoring hundreds of entrepreneurs, executives, and investors, and serving as board chairman for dozens of companies. Brian graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics. Brian and his family manage the Sheth Sangreal Foundation to support efforts to protect and repair the natural world, mitigate the effects of poverty, and create educational opportunities in central Texas and around the world.
Janesh Moorjani has served as CFO and COO of Elastic NV (“Elastic”) since May 2022 and its CFO since August 2017. Prior to joining Elastic, he served as Executive Vice President and CFO of Infoblox Inc., an IT automation and security company, from January 2016 until August 2017, prior to which he held various senior leadership, finance and sales positions at VMware Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., PTC Inc., and Goldman, Sachs & Co., a global investment banking firm. Mr. Moorjani holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Mumbai and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Moorjani currently serves on the board of directors of Cohesity Inc. and PTC Inc.
Kevin is the founder of Mandiant at Google Cloud. He has served as the company’s Chief Executive Officer since June 2016, including as Chief Executive Officer of FireEye, Inc. until its corporate name change to Mandiant, Inc. in October 2021. Kevin served as a member of the company’s Board of Directors from February 2016 until September 2022, when Mandiant became a part of Google Cloud.
Kevin joined the company as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in December 2013, when FireEye acquired Mandiant Corporation, which he founded in 2004. Mandiant Corporation was widely recognized as the leading provider of cyber security incident management products and services prior to the acquisition by FireEye and went on to become the core of FireEye’s highly successful consulting business.
Kevin began his cyber security career in the United States Air Force, serving as a computer security officer in the 7th Communications Group at the Pentagon and later as a special agent and cyber crime investigator in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. In the private sector, Kevin held senior positions in the security consulting divisions of Sytex, acquired by Lockheed Martin, and Foundstone, acquired by McAfee.
Kevin’s insight, gained from his work on the front lines of major cyber threats, is routinely requested by corporate directors, executives, and government officials who face serious cyber security challenges. He regularly provides commentary and analysis on cyber security issues for major news media and has testified in hearings before the U.S. House and Senate committees. Kevin has served as a member of the Cybersecurity Advisory Committee for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency since December 2021.
Kevin holds a B.S. in computer science from Lafayette College and a M.S. in forensic science from The George Washington University. He is also a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program.
Robin Matlock is a seasoned board director, serving as an independent director on several public, private and non-profit boards. Prior to dedicating herself to board service, her operational career spanned over 30 years of marketing, sales, and business development experience spanning a variety of markets including enterprise software, cloud services, and security.
Ms. Matlock most recently served as chief marketing officer (CMO) at VMware, a position she held for seven years. During her tenure at VMware, she helped shape the company’s business and go-to-market strategy and played a key role in scaling the company’s revenues from $2B to $11B. Before joining VMware, Ms. Matlock was executive vice president and general manager at the data security company Imperva. Prior to that, she held various senior executive roles at McAfee, Entercept, and Symantec.
Ms. Matlock also currently serves as an independent director with information management company Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM), investment data and tools provider, MSCI (NYSE: MSCI) and several other private tech startups.
Ms. Matlock holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Music from Rice University and is a frequent keynote speaker at marketing, technology, and women in tech events.
Greg Hughes is the Chief Executive Officer at Veritas. Greg is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of experience as an executive in enterprise software.
Previously, Greg was the CEO of Serena Software, where he led the successful turnaround and sale to Micro Focus International Plc. Greg has also held executive roles in technology investment firms HGGC and Silver Lake Partners.
Greg came to Silver Lake from Symantec where he served in a variety of senior executive positions, most recently as President of the $4 Billion Enterprise Product Group.
Greg joined Symantec through the acquisition of Veritas, where he was Executive Vice President of Global Services. Prior to Veritas, Greg was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he founded and led the Software Practice.
Greg holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
Workday (Observer)
Carl Eschenbach is the CEO of Workday. He was previously a general partner at Sequoia Capital and continues to stay involved in a venture partner capacity. Before Sequoia, Carl spent 14 years at VMware in various leadership roles.
Sequoia Capital (Observer)
William “Bill” Coughran is a technologist specializing in large-scale computing and networking systems with general management experience. Dr. Coughran joined Sequoia Capital in late 2011 where he works as a partner and coach to founders and help them build effective technology-centric organizations; while at Sequoia, he served as an advisor to Google until 2015. His career in computer science spans more than three decades. He began his post-graduate career starting with individual research contributions in computational science and engineering (for semiconductor and circuit simulation, Raman optical amplifiers, convective fluid flow) and computer systems. Dr. Coughran helped create and guide the development of numerous distributed systems, IP security projects, and applications of modeling and formal verification methods as well as converged (voice/data) network software, access, and switching products. More recently, he has contributed to large-scale Web service systems and products as well as client software. Now, he is an investor in and coach for developing companies.
Dr. Coughran holds a B.S.& M.S. mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and a M.S. & Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford.
Softbank (Observer)
Vikas J. Parekh is a Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers where he focuses on investing in Automation, Enterprise software, and other Emerging Technologies.
Prior to SoftBank, Vikas worked in Private Equity at KKR, and in Consulting at Boston Consulting Group. Vikas holds an MBA with highest honors from Harvard Business School, and a BS in Electrical Engineering and MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. He resides in San Francisco with his wife and three children.
Premji Invest (Observer)
Sandesh Patnam is the Managing Partner at Premji Invest, running both the private and listed equities investing practice in the US and tech investing globally. He joined PI to establish their US presence and drive their investment strategies in the US. At PI, he has led investments in Anaplan (SaaS Planning Solution, IPO, Ticker: PLAN), Zuora (SaaS Subscription Billing, IPO, Ticker: ZUO), Coupa(SaaS eProcurement, IPO, Ticker: COUP), Looker (BI Analytics, Acq. by GOOGL for$2.85B), Apttus (SaaS CPQ and CLM, Acq. by Thoma Bravo for $1.85B), ServiceMax(SaaS Field Service Automation, Acq. by GE for $1.0B), Navan (AI enabled travel platform), Outreach (SaaS Sales Enablement), Icertis (SaaS Contract Management), Heyday (E-commerce enablement), Signifyd (E-commerce Fraud), Sysdig (Container Security), DataStax (NoSQL database), Cohesity (Enterprise Data Management), Innovium (Switch Fabric Silicon, Acq by MRVL for $1.2B), Ikigai (Enterprise AI) and Cohesity(Enterprise Data Management).
Prior to Premji Invest, Sandesh was a Senior Equity Analyst and Investment Officer at the Seligman Technology Group at Ameriprise. At Seligman, Sandesh helped manage more than $15B in both long only and long/short investment vehicles while leading their software and IT infrastructure equity portfolios. Prior to Seligman, Sandesh was a General Partner at Bay Partners and led the IT Infrastructure and SaaS practices. At Bay, he led or co led investments in Akros Silicon (Power Management ICs), Code Green Networks (DLP Security Systems), Daptiv (SaaS Collaboration and Project Mgmt.), ParAccel (Data Warehousing systems, Acq. by Ingrian), LiveMedia (OOH digital advertising),Nanogram (next gen materials), and Enphase Energy (Micro-Inverters for Solar, IPO: ENPH). He was involved in the firm’s investments in Lending Club (Consumer Lending, IPO, Ticker: LC), Mulesoft (API platform, IPO, Ticker: MULE),Dynatrace (IPO, Ticker: DT), and Guidewire Software (SaaS Insurance vertical, IPO, Ticker: GWRE).
Prior to Bay Partners, he was with TeleSoft Partners where led the systems and components investment practices. He co-led investments in Aarohi Communications(Acq. by Emulex), Amberwave Systems, Sierra Design Automation (Acq. by MENT),Validity Sensors (Acq. SYNA), Xambala, and Xpedion Design Systems (Acq. by Agilent Technologies).
Before joining TeleSoft, he held both business and technical roles at Malleable Technologies, Silicon Graphics, Integrated Device Technologies, and Cirrus Logic.
NVÎDÎÃ (Òbsêërvêër)
Vííshâål íís cüýrrêèntly Hêèâåd ôõf Côõrpôõrâåtêè Dêèvêèlôõpmêènt âåt NVÏDÏÄ, rêèspôõnsííblêè fôõr lêèâådííng grôõwth strâåtêègy thrôõüýgh âåcqüýíísíítííôõns, strâåtêègííc íínvêèstmêènts âånd pâårtnêèrshííps glôõbâålly.
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Vîïshâæl hóólds âæn MBÀ fróóm théê Whâærtóón Schóóóól âæt théê Ünîïvéêrsîïty óóf Péênnsylvâænîïâæ whéêréê héê grâædûúâætéêd âæs Pâælméêr Schóólâær, MS âænd Èngîïnéêéêr déêgréêéês îïn Èléêctrîïcâæl Èngîïnéêéêrîïng & Cöömpýùtëêr Scíîëêncëê frööm MÏT wíîth àæ Míînöör íîn Fíînàæncëê frööm thëê Slööàæn Schööööl ööf Màænàægëêmëênt, àænd àæ BS frööm thëê Úníîvëêrsíîty ööf Càælíîföörníîàæ, Bëêrkëêlëêy íîn Èlëêctríîcàæl Èngíînëêëêríîng & Còómpýütèèr Scíîèèncèè whèèrèè hèè gräâdýüäâtèèd wíîth Híîghèèst Hòónòórs.
Vìíshääl hääs bëèëèn ää gýûëèst lëèctýûrëèr äät Stäänfóôrd Gräädýûäätëè Schóôóôl óôf Býûsìínëèss, Whäärtóôn äänd ÛC Bëèrkëèlëèy Hääääs Schóôóôl óôf Býûsìínëèss.
DFJ Growth (Observer)
Randy Glein is a founder and partner at DFJ Growth. His career spans more than 30 years as a venture capital investor, operating executive and entrepreneur. Randy has led investments in many innovative technology leaders, including Anaplan (NYSE: PLAN), Box (NYSE: BOX), Performics (Google), Ring (Amazon), SpaceX, Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), Tumblr (Yahoo), Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), Yammer (Microsoft), and Yodle (Web.com). Recent investments include Boring Company, Cohesity, Innovium, Mapbox, Splice, Sumo Logic and Yellowbrick. Prior to DFJ, Randy was CFO of FeedBurner, a DFJ portfolio company acquired by Google. He also played instrumental roles in the formation and development of DIRECTV and XM Radio. Randy began his career as a systems engineer at Hughes Space & Communications. Forbes has named Randy to its annual Midas List five times, including most recently in 2019. The New York Times / CB Insights has named Randy one of the Top 100 venture capital investors four consecutive years. He holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson, an MSEE from the University of Southern California, and a BSEE with high honors from the University of Florida.
Cisco (Observer)
Aleem Rizvon leads the M&A Group for Cisco’s Networking, Cloud & Compute, and Customer Experience Business entities in the Corporate Development Organization. His team is focused on developing inorganic growth strategies and managing venture investments for these groups. Aleem’s team is also responsible for Cisco’s inorganic efforts in the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) theater.
Aleem also leads the Divestiture practice for the group and led the divestment of Cisco’s SP Video Software & Services and Mobility Self-Organizing Network (SON) Businesses.
Aleem started his career at Cisco as a Product Manager in the Service Provider Group focusing on Multiservice Switching. He went on to lead the Product Management team for Cisco’s Carrier VoIP Media Gateway platforms and drove it to #1 market share position.
Aleem took on various roles of increasing responsibility subsequently – first at the Enterprise Wireless Networking Group where his team was responsible for defining and bringing to market Advanced Mobility Services and later on as part of Services Business Development where he led the formation of the Joint venture with EMC and VMware to create VCE that helped Cisco enter the Converged Cloud Infrastructure market.
Prior to Cisco, Aleem led Product Development Organizations at NEC during which time he also spent 3+ years in Japan, helping define, develop and deploy Service Provider Core Network Products and Voice/Data Convergence Products.
Aleem holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology in India and master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington.
Foundation Capital (Observer)
Ashu works with startups across the enterprise stack. He is particularly excited about how machine learning and deep learning are reinventing existing software categories and creating new consumer experiences.
Ashu serves on the boards of Anvilogic, Arize, Coefficient, Cohesity, Conviva, Eightfold, Fortanix, Layer9, OpsMx, Skyflow, and Turing. In addition, Ashu was responsible for Foundation Capital’s investments in Aggregate Knowledge, Custora, FreeWheel, TubeMogul, and Tubi.tv.
Ashu is passionate about helping technical founders scale as CEOs. His podcast on that topic, B2B a CEO, has featured Eric Yuan, Jennifer Tejada, Aaron Levie, and Tien Tzuo.
Before joining Foundation Capital in 2008, Ashu was the general manager for Microsoft’s online-advertising business and led field marketing for the software businesses. Previously, Ashu worked at McKinsey & Company, helping technology companies scale their go-to-market efforts.
Google Ventures (Observer)
Karim leads GV’s investments in enterprise software, data analytics, and security. He brings over a decade of operational and investment experience to his role. He initially joined Google’s corporate development team in 2008, the group responsible for all mergers and acquisitions and has been at GV since inception.
Prior to Google, Karim was a venture capitalist at Atlas Venture, where he worked on investments in software and Internet infrastructure. Previously, he was director of New Ventures at Level 3 Communications, responsible for evaluating new business opportunities and has led product development for the company’s voice services. Earlier in his career, Karim held various product and marketing roles at Intel, initially on the i486 ™, and later as product manager for the Pentium® Processor. He started his career at Siemens as a software engineer working on the first vehicle navigation system for BMW.
Qualcomm Ventures (Observer)
Quinn Li is Vice President & Global Head of Qualcomm Ventures. In this role, Quinn oversees Qualcomm’s $1 billion strategic venture investment portfolio of over 140 investments. He currently serves as a board member or observer in AMEC, Brain Corp, Enovix, OneWeb, Placemeter, RetailNext, Streetline, Tango, and Verve Wireless. Previously Quinn has led investments in A123 Systems (AONE), Consert (acquired by Landis+Gyr), InvenSense (INVN), PowerCloud Systems (acquired by Comcast), and Siimpel (acquired by Tessera).
Prior to joining Qualcomm Ventures, Quinn held various engineering and management roles in the wireless industry. Most recently, he worked in product management and business development at IBM Systems and Technology Group. Previously, he spent several years in Broadcom and the wireless infrastructure group at Lucent Technologies.
Quinn received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, and his MBA from Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Artis Ventures (Observer)
Stuart Peterson is the Co-founder and a Senior Partner of ARTIS Ventures. Before forming ARTIS in 2001, Stuart was a Managing Director of The Cypress Funds, where he was responsible for the firm’s technology sector investments and strategy. Stuart was a Vice President and Co-Portfolio Manager with Portfolio Advisory Services, focused on growth company investment management. Stuart currently serves on the board of directors for Stem CentRx, a stem cell centric cancer therapy company. He is also a board advisor for Omicia, a genomic interpretation platform. Stuart currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the SF MOMA and is actively involved in the Tipping Point Community and MCDS.
Stuart received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and his M.B.A. in Analytic Finance from The University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business.
Das Cohesity CEO Advisory Council berät den CEO, um die Führungsposition von Cohesity zu stärken und strategische Erkenntnisse zu liefern.
Former Chair and CEO of PepsiCo. Current Board Director at Amazon, Philips and the International Cricket Council. Named in the Top 10 of the Fortune Most Powerful Women List, for several years.
Chairman at Siemens and Northvolt. Current Board Director at C3.ai. Former Co-CEO of SAP. Member of Board of Trustees of World Economic Forum.
General Partner at Sway Ventures. Current Board Director at Costco, VMware, Motorola Solutions. Former CEO of iPass, Openwave, and Emotient.
Former CEO & EVP of Verizon Business. Current Board Director at John Deere and York Space Systems, a member of Aptiv’s Strategic and Technology Advisory Council, and an Operating Partner at Digital Gravity. Named in Fortune’s Most Powerful Women List.
Dev Ittycheria has over two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, and leader specializing in high-growth software companies. Currently, he is the President & CEO of MongoDB, where he led its IPO in 2017—the first public offering of a database company in over 26 years. Under Dev’s leadership, MongoDB has released innovative products such as Atlas, its global cloud database, acquired thousands of customers, rapidly expanded operations around the world, grown its business faster and delivered better financial performance than any comparable company in its sector. Dev currently serves as lead independent director of the board of directors of Datadog, Inc., a public software company. Dev also serves on the board of directors of DataRobot, a private software company. Previously, Dev was Managing Director at OpenView Venture Partners, Venture Partner at Greylock Partners, and CEO/Co-founder of BladeLogic, which was acquired by BMC for $900 million. Following the acquisition, he served as President of BMC. Dev founded his first technology company in 1998, and his leadership and board roles have resulted in 5 IPOs and 2 significant acquisitions. Dev graduated from Rutgers University with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, was honored with the Medal of Excellence and was recognized by the School of Engineering as its 2010 Alumnus of the Year.
Das Cohesity Security Advisory Council ist mit unabhängigen Experten besetzt, die über neuartige Bedrohungen der Cybersicherheit beraten.
Cohesity Security Advisory Council Chair
Dave DeWalt is Chair of the Cohesity Security Advisory Council and a veteran CEO, advisor, and investor who has led companies, from startups to the Fortune 500, on a transformational journey of success. Focused on technology and cybersecurity, Dave helped create more than $20 billion of shareholder value during his 15-plus years as President and CEO of three major companies. That includes driving the largest cybersecurity IPO to date as of 2013, and leading the largest all-cash deal in technology history as of 2010. Today, he serves as Managing Director of Allegis Cyber as well as investor and board member in the world’s most innovative companies such as Delta Airlines, Five9, Forescout, Phantom Cyber, Claroty, Team8, DataTribe, Illusive Networks, and Optiv.
As a former NSA Executive and DOD CIO/CISO, Marianne brings over 35 years of experience across the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence community, and civil government sectors. She served as Deputy National Manager for National Security Systems (NSS) and Senior Cybersecurity Executive for the National Security Agency where she was directly responsible for systems across the government containing classified and/or sensitive information. She also served as both Principal Deputy for Cybersecurity and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (DCISO), Department of Defense, CIO. She received the Distinguished Executive Presidential Rank Award, the highest government civilian recognition, for her contributions to national security. Marianne Bailey currently leads Guidehouse’s Advanced Solutions Cybersecurity practice. Ms. Bailey earned a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Master’s degree from Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University.
Alex Stamos is working to improve the security and safety of the Internet through teaching and research as the Director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, a cross-disciplinary program studying the abuse of the internet. He also helps companies secure themselves as a Partner in the Krebs Stamos Group. He has served as Chief Security Officer at Facebook and Yahoo and was a co-founder of iSEC Partners. Alex has investigated and responded to several historical events and has been called the “Forrest Gump of InfoSec” by friends. He is a member of the Aspen Cybersecurity and Information Disorder Commissions, Annan Commission on Elections and Democracy and advises NATO’s Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. He has spoken on six continents, testified in Congress, served as an expert witness for the wrongly accused, earned a BSEE from UC Berkeley and holds five patents.
Kelly Bissell leads Microsoft’s Services group globally. He has more than 28 years of cybersecurity experience.
Kelly has been working with hundreds of clients for 30+ years to help them be compliant and secure. At Microsoft, the goal is to work with clients and Security Engineering to transform the cybersecurity market to make the world safer and more secure. Doing so will drive more product adoption and enhance the Microsoft brand. Work with clients, regulators, and law enforcement to reduce cyber-crime.
Before Microsoft, Kelly led Accenture Security, before that, he built and led Deloitte Cyber Risk Services and held various leadership positions with Arthur Andersen, AT&T, and others. Kelly has held the role of CIO and CTO of two different companies and CISO for a global bank.
Kelly is involved in several industry and technology groups recently authoring various articles and by-lines in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Executive, USA Today, and many others.
Currently, Kelly is working with national security for several counties in the Five Eyes and NATO.
Kelly is tightly aligned with several cyber and law enforcement agencies around the world. He is working to secure the nations of Ukraine, Albania, and a few others.
Laura is Group Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Group Executive Committee at Societe Generale.
Laura has an experience of close to 30 years within Credit Suisse, she joined in 1994. She held several senior positions in IT. In 2012, she was appointed Head of Information Technology for the EMEA zone and then Global Head of Production and Testing Group in 2013. In 2014, she became Chief Technology Officer, in charge of IT infrastructures and Chief Information Security Officer of Credit Suisse. Laura was previously Global Chief Information Officer at Credit Suisse from 2019.
Laura Mather holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Jason Chan has spent over twenty years in cybersecurity and is especially passionate about large-scale systems, cloud security, and improving security in modern software development practices.
Most recently, Jason built and led the information security team at Netflix for over a decade before retiring in July 2021. His team at Netflix was known for its contributions to the security community, including over 30 open-source security releases and dozens of conference presentations. He also previously led the security team at VMware and spent most of his earlier career in security consulting. Since retiring from Netflix, Jason has been advising a variety of companies on security products and strategy and is also an Operating Advisor at Bessemer Venture Partners.
Jason enjoys coaching, mentoring, and helping folks from underrepresented groups enter and advance in the cybersecurity industry. Outside of work, he enjoys reading, running ultramarathons, and volunteering in habitat restoration, trail maintenance, and wildfire management. He received a BS from the College of Charleston and his MS from Boston University.
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Sahir is responsible for product management, growth marketing/operations, and GTM strategy across the MongoDB portfolio. He joined MongoDB in 2016 as SVP, Cloud Products & GTM to lead MongoDB’s Cloud Products and Go-to-Market Strategy ahead of the launch of Atlas and helped grow the cloud business from zero to over $150 million annually. Sahir joined MongoDB from Sumo Logic, a SaaS machine-data analytics company, where he managed platform, pricing, packaging and technology partnerships. Before Sumo Logic, Sahir was the Director of Cloud Management Strategy & Evangelism at VMware where he launched VMware’s first organically developed SaaS management product and helped grow the management tools business to over $1B in revenue. Earlier in his career, Sahir held a variety of technical and sales-focused roles at DynamicOps, BMC Software, and BladeLogic.
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Príìôör tôö Níìcíìræá, Ælæán lèéd thèé èéntèérpríìsèé mæárkèétíìng ôörgæáníìzæátíìôön æát Cíìscôö, æá tèéæám ôöf 300 rèéspôönsíìblèé fôör bríìngíìng tôö mæárkèét æán æássôöcíìæátèéd $25 bíìllíìôön prôödûýct pôörtfôölíìôö. Hèé sèérvèés áãs áãn áãdvïïsôôr tôô tèéchnôôlôôgy côômpáãnïïèés ïïnclüýdïïng Hïïghfïïvèé, Mïïst, Nèétskôôpèé, áãnd Vèéráã. Hëè hæâs æâ BÄ fróóm SÜNY Búýffæâlóó, æân MÄ fróóm thëè Schóóóól óóf Ìntëèrnæâtïíóónæâl Sëèrvïícëè æât Ämëèrïícæân Ünïívëèrsïíty, æând æân MBÄ ïín Fïínæâncëè fróóm thëè Stëèrn Schóóóól óóf Búýsïínëèss æât Nëèw Yóórk Ünïívëèrsïíty.
Steve Grewal is a veteran C-level technology executive who has worked for various federal agencies including U.S. General Services Administration (Deputy CIO), Department of Education (CIO), Department of Transportation, and Health & Human Services.
Leveraging his experience as a public sector change agent that has overseen many significant IT innovation projects, Steve focuses on innovations and strategies that propel public sector organizations and solve business challenges. He was previously Vice President and CTO for Public Sector at Cohesity and now acts in an advisory role for Cohesity Federal. Steve currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for CTG Federal and has a BA in liberal arts and computer science from Harvard University.
Bask serves as an Independent Board Director and Advisor to high growth companies, including Zoom, Automation Anywhere, FSS, ThoughtSpot, TextIQ. Modern Execu Solutions.
A respected industry veteran, Bask brings more than 30 years of experience in executing and driving change in traditional Fortune 100 manufacturing companies and Silicon Valley-based high technology firms.
Recently, he served as the Chief Information and Digital transformation Officer for VMWare, managing critical technology systems and driving digital transformation. He also led M&A integration and SaaS transformation. From 2016 to 2018, he was both the CIO for VMWare and the EVP and CIO of Dell Technologies.
Bask is a leader focused on customers and growth and spends time chairing CXO councils and customer advisory boards.
BV Jagadeesh is Managing Partner at KAAJ Ventures that focuses on early stage investments and mentoring. Jagadeesh has successfully invested and guided companies such as NetMagic Solutions (acqd: NTT), Ocarina Networks (acqd: Dell), Ankeena (acqd: Juniper), Nutanix, Yodlee (2014 IPO), Edurite (acqd: Pearsons) to name a few.
Before founding KAAJ Ventures, BV Jagadeesh served as a founding investor and CEO of NetScaler. NetScaler pioneered the concept of Application Delivery and was successfully sold to Citrix for $325M and served as Group VP and GM for Citrix’s Application Networking division. Prior to Netscaler, he co-founded and served as CTO of Exodus communications in 1993 that pioneered the concept of Internet data centers. Jagadeesh was instrumental in the successful IPO of Exodus in 1998.
