Jeremy Burton

CEO

Burlingame, California, United States30 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years in enterprise software leadership.
Successfully integrated multiple strategic acquisitions.
Co-founded the largest Oracle community online.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and enterprise software executive with extensive experience in product development and marketing.

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Enterprise software executive with over 20 years experience running software and systems businesses from $250M to $20BN. Extensive experience in product development - storage arrays, storage software, data protection software, security software, application development software - teams of 200 up to 12000 professionals with $2BN expense line. Extensive experience in marketing - Dell Technologies (Dell, Dell EMC, VMware, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream), EMC, Oracle Database, Oracle Applications & VERITAS Storage Software - running teams of up to ~3000 and ~$1.5B budget. Strategic M&A experience. Ran successful acquisition / integration of DSSD, TwinStrata, Maginatics, CloudScaling (EMC), DCT, KVS (VERITAS), BindView (Symantec) & IMLogic (Symantec). Started up SaaS businesses inside large organizations - from product re-architecture to infrastructure to business model. Co-founded and built the largest Oracle Community on the internet - Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Grew from zero to over 2M members. Over 6M members today. Specialties: Full P&L Management, Development of Enterprise Software, Marketing, Strategic M&A

Experience

30 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs

Average Tenure

3 mos

Current Experience

Unqork

Board Member

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos · New York, United States · Remote

Snowflake

2 roles

General Manager, Observability Business Unit

Promoted

Feb 2026 – Present · 3 mos

Board Of Directors

Nov 2015 – Feb 2026 · 10 yrs 3 mos

Mclaren group

Advisory Board

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

Advisory role for Mclaren F1 team

Observe, inc.

CEO

Nov 2018 – Feb 2026 · 7 yrs 3 mos · San Mateo

Observe is a SaaS Observability product which enables SRE / DevOps & Engineering teams to investigate modern distributed applications.

Sutter hill ventures

Entrepreneur In Residence

May 2018 – Oct 2018 · 5 mos · Palo Alto, CA

Dell technologies

Chief Marketing Officer & Corporate Development

Sep 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Global Brand, Communications, Digital, Field / Channel & Dell Technologies Portfolio Marketing.
Infrastructure Systems Group Marketing (Dell EMC) & Client Systems Group Marketing (Dell)
Corporate Development, including Dell Technologies Capital
~$1.5B Budget

Emc

2 roles

President, Products

Apr 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Responsibility for EMC Product Business Units (VMAX, VNX, XtremIO, Data Domain, Avamar, Networker, Isilon, ViPR, DSSD, ECS, ECD), CTO Office, Solutions, Marketing, Technology Alliances.
Approximately $15BN in revenues, $2BN expense line, 12000 employees.

Executive Vice President & CMO

Mar 2010 – Mar 2014 · 4 yrs

Responsible for Solutions, Corporate (Brand, Comms, Digital) & Field/Channel Marketing at EMC Corporation.

Serena software, inc.

President & CEO

Feb 2007 – Nov 2009 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Serena is a privately held Silver Lake portfolio company.
~$250M in revenue, 700 employees, 30%+ EBITA margin.
Leader in Application Development software - mainframe; distributed change management, business mashups; agile project management.
SaaS; traditional on-premise business.

Symantec

3 roles

Group President, Enterprise Security & Data Mgmt

Jan 2006 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 1 mo

$2.2BN business with $300M+ expense budget; 3000 employees in Engineering, Product Mgmt, Business Development; Alliances for Symantec Enterprise Security; Data Management products. This included Endpoint Security, Compliance; Security Mgmt, MSS, Enterprise Messaging, Windows Backup; Provisioning and Online Backup Services.

Executive Vice President, Data Management Group

Aug 2004 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos

$1.2BN, $150M expense budget, over 900 employees in engineering, product management, product marketing, alliances and business development functions. In the portfolio were VERITAS NetBackup, the market leader in Enterprise backup, VERITAS Backup Exec, the market leader in Windows backup and VERITAS Enterprise Vault, the market leader in Email Archiving.

SVP & Chief Marketing Officer

Apr 2002 – Aug 2004 · 2 yrs 4 mos

$100M Worldwide Marketing budget with approximately 250 employees worldwide. Product, Corporate, Field Marketing plus Corporate Communications.

Oracle corporation

4 roles

Senior Vice President, Product & Services Marketing

Apr 2000 – Apr 2002 · 2 yrs

300+ employees. Product marketing for all of Oracle's Database, Application Server and Applications products. Included Industry Marketing, Analyst Relations, Competitive Intelligence, e-Marketing (oracle.com), OTN (developer program), Marketing Programs, On-Demand & Mobile.

Vice President, Internet Platform & Tools Marketing

Promoted

Jan 1998 – Apr 2000 · 2 yrs 3 mos

~100 employees running Oracle Database (8i, 9i), Oracle Application Server (9iAS) and Oracle development and business intelligence tools marketing. Responsible for product launch, marcoms, analyst relations and press briefings for all Oracle technology products.
Founded Oracle Technology Network (OTN) - Oracle's developer program which grew to over 2M members in 3 years and is over 5M today. OTN was an online community and social network back in 1998 containing free Oracle software, discussion forums and sample code.

Senior Director, Visual Development Tools

Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr

Responsible for the development of Oracle JDeveloper - Oracle's Java Development tool. Engineering, QA, Doc and Product Management.

Director Product Management

Sep 1995 – Jan 1997 · 1 yr 4 mos

Product Management for Oracle Power Objects within the Oracle Web Workgroup Systems Division (run by none other than Marc Benioff!)

Education

University of Surrey

BEng Hons — Information Systems Engineering

Jan 1986 – Jan 1990