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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, building on degrees in economics/statistics, and an MBA.

  • deep and diverse background in enterprise/B2B software and IT. I have spent more than 2/3rd of my career operating and venture investing in technology startups and a 1/3rd 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 building 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]

    • also Venture Partner at Khosla Ventures [2014-2015]

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

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

  • IBM - Vice President, Cloud Computing [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 (acq. by 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]

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

Education

  • MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1995.

  • BA in Economics from North Carolina State University, 1991.

  • Attended Case Western Reserve University, 1986-88.

 
 
 
 

Current Focus in 2020

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Current Focus in 2020:

- future of B2B/enterprise IT markets,

- next-gen. data center infra s/w, APIs, and hybrid cloud IT,

- real-time, streaming data frameworks + analytics,

- open source, developer tools & DevOps ecosystems,

- full stack (+ silicon) ML/AI and ML-aaS platforms,

- next-gen. discrete business process + workflow automation,

- future of work, automation and robotics.

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