Jul 2019 – Oct 2023 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• I am a geek in developer tools, dev{sec|net|git}ops, infrastructure, dev platforms, and open-source licensing. I'm knowledgeably dangerous in analytics, business intelligence, big data, cloud computing, and systems management.
• Board / Observer:
• NS1 (smart network services acq. by IBM)
• Loops.ai (operational intelligence acq. by IFS)
• Oxeye Security (cloud native app sec acq. by Gitlab)
• Orion Labs (dev push-to-talk acq. by Modaxo)
• Akka (agentic AI platform)
• CUE Labs (CUE configuration language)
• AppMap (personalized dev observability)
• Archipelo (developer security posture management)
• Zingly (rethinking the contact us box)
• Advisor: Yugabyte, Tetrate, Minio, Fly.io.

Aug 2017 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• WSO2 was acquired by EQT for $650M in 2024. 10 years as WSO2 board director and 2 years as its CEO.
• Founded in 2005, WSO2 is the world's #1 open-source integration vendor, helping digitally driven organizations become integration agile. Brand name customers choose WSO2 for their broad, integrated platform, approach to open source, and agile transformation methodology. With offices in Australia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, UK, Germany and USA, WSO2 employs over 1000 professionals.

Jul 2012 – Nov 2024 · 12 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Board:
• Sauce Labs (exited to PE, 2017)
• WSO2 (acquired by EQT, Q2 '24)
• Codenvy (acquired by RHT, Q2 '17)
• Cloudant (acquired by IBM, Q1 '14)
• Angel:
• SourceGraph (exited in 2015 secondary)
• ZeroTurnaround (acq. by Roguewave, Q4 '17)
• InfoQ.com (exited in 2017 secondary)
• AppHarbor (acquired by MSFT, Q4 '14)
• Advisor:
• Security Compass (acquired by PE, Q4 '19)
• Tomitribe (apache support)
• Toba Capital's partners are proven operators with expertise in IT infrastructure. Many of our partners continue as active CEOs, bringing a unique blend of market depth and support to our portfolio companies.

Mar 2012 – Aug 2017 · 5 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco, CA

• Codenvy was acquired by Red Hat in June 2017! Codenvy makes cloud workspaces for development teams. 45 employees and $10M in venture capital raised from Toba Capital and Auriga Ventures.

Jul 2011 – Mar 2012 · 8 mos · Redwood Shores, CA

• A combination of SAAS and PAAS businesses that are offered in a self-service, elastic environment on a subscription basis generating more than $1B in annual revenue.

Mar 2005 – Jul 2011 · 6 yrs 4 mos

• Investment and product leader for Quest's app dev, app server, cloud, and DevOps portfolio representing ~$150M ARR. Investments include WSO2, ZeroTurnaround, AppHarbor, AwayFind, rule.fm and Skydera.

Jul 2003 – Dec 2004 · 1 yr 5 mos · Moutain View, CA

• A media subsidiary that published TheServerSide.com, a tabloid and research community for enterprise Java and .NET devs with 1M subscribers. Divested from Veritas in a sale to TechTarget where TSS still operates today!

Dec 1997 – Jun 2003 · 5 yrs 6 mos

• Various technical positions in marketing, products and services.