Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Jan 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

May 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

Apr 2021 – Present · 5 yrs

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Sep 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

Jul 2020 – May 2024 · 3 yrs 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Preseed and seed investments in enterprise infrastructure
• 1) Cybersecurity: Led seed rounds in
• a) StrikeReady (AI, Threat intel for SOC),
• b) Surf Security (Enterprise browser)
• c) Leen.dev (data fabric for security).
• Coinvested in
• d) Permiso (cloud run time detection and response),
• e) JupiterOne (asset management)

Jan 2019 – Jan 2023 · 4 yrs · Oakland

• Playworks is an Oakland-based national nonprofit that supports learning and physical health by providing safe and inclusive play to low-income students in urban schools. Playworks works with schools to design curriculum and activities that offer play opportunities during recess, lunch and after school programs.

Mar 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Jan 2014 – Jan 2020 · 6 yrs · Palo Alto, CA

• Early stage investments in Cloud Computing, Security, Mobility, Enterprise Storage, DevOps, Developer Tools
• Select investments include
• 1) Puppet Labs
• 2) JFrog
• 3) HyTrust
• 4) Kinvey (acq. by Progress Software)
• 5) WaveFront
• 6) Blue Medora
• 7) CloudMunch
• 8) More undisclosed investments in NFV, Hybrid Cloud, Mobility
• M&A Strategy/Special Projects: Formulation of strategic rationale and target selection working alongside GM's, COO
• Select transactions include
• 1) Virtustream
• 2) Boxer
• 3) Wavefront
• 4) E8 Security
• 5) CloudHealth
• 6) CarbonBlack

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs · Cupertino

• Corporate Venture Capital:
• 1) OpenStack (CloudScaling) - acq. by EMC
• 2) File sync n share (Egnyte)
• 3) Flash (Virident) - acq. by Western Digital
• 4) Object Storage (8kpc)
• 4) Enterprise Storage (StorOne)
• 5) Flash Controller (eASIC) - acq. by Intel
• Corporate Strategy:
• 1) Annual strategic planning process to set 3 year strategy and priorities. Process involved historic and pro forma financial modelling, interviews with internal and external stakeholders, expert panel discussion, offsite e-staff discussion and corporate communication to employees and analysts
• 2) Investment thesis for emerging markets such as cloud storage, Big Data, all - flash storage, etc.
• Corporate Development:
• 1) Led acquisition of Xyratex ($374M, Dec 2013) - financial modelling, business case for board, internal and external due diligence, synergies analysis,& post merger integration support.
• 2) Acquisition of LSI's flash assets ($350M, May 2014)

Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs · Menlo Park

• Funded by Global Catalyst Partners and Khosla Ventures, iKoa developed low-power, high-performance voice processing and noise cancellation products for smartphones, tablets, laptops and automotive/gaming applications.
• Responsible for product management and business development across three generations of products.Drove architecture and definition of the product with CTO, managed offshore development team and technology & manufacturing partners.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 · 3 yrs

Jun 1999 – May 2004 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Sunnyvale

• Joined as a new college graduate on Sun's flagship UltraSparc Server team. Drove product development across a team of 350 engineers from early stages of definition to ship