Summary

> 28 years of global IT experience as a product-centric founder, venture investor, general manager and CEO at startups and Fortune 50 companies.

> self-taught technologist and architect despite degrees in economics/stats, and an MBA.

> a deep and diverse background in enterprise/B2B software and IT. I have spent more than half my career operating and venture investing in technology startups and the other half as a transformational leader at four large IT companies - Cisco, HP, IBM, and Nortel Networks.

> extensive product R&D, GM/operations and investing experience in cloud and data/ML platforms, enterprise software, real time data analytics, open source, devops tools, and data center infrastructure.

> throughout my career, I’ve been lucky to work with great teams and mentors with whom we have built and managed several high growth, global businesses and product lines with multi-hundred million dollar P&Ls.

> also had my share of failures and some of my best lessons have come from these experiences.

I’m motivated to work with passionate teams and be part of platforms & ecosystems driven to change the world.

EXPERIENCE

• Advisor and Venture Investor  [2011 - Present]

  -venture partner at Khosla Ventures [2014-2015]

• Global Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and SVP and GM, Platforms and Cloud Services at Cisco [2015-2016]

• Senior Vice President (SVP) and GM, HP Cloud Services at HPE [2011-2013]

• Vice President, Cloud Computing at IBM [2008-2011]

• CEO/Interim CEO at four (4) startups, all acquired [2002-2009]

  -Encentuate (acquired by IBM), JRG (acq. by Aptean), Pivia (acq. by F5), Crossweave (Amberpoint)

• CEO & Co-Founder at Idapta, Inc. [1998-2001 company shutdown]

• Chief Operating Officer (COO) and founding Product Manager, RelevantKnowledge-MediaMetrix (IPO in 1999, now comScore Inc.) [1996-1998]

• Product Manager & IT Ops at NORTEL Networks [1991-1996]