Larry Augustin — CEO

Larry Augustin is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor to technology companies. Previously, Larry was the Vice President for Applications at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he was responsible for the applications services businesses including Contact Center (Connect, Wisdom, Profiles, and Tasks), Marketing Automation (Pinpoint), Productivity and No-code Applications (Honeycode, Chime, WorkDocs, WorkMail, Alexa For Business), Communication Developer Services (Chime SDK, Simple Email Service (SES), Pinpoint SMS APIs, Chime Voice Connector, WorkDocs SDK), and End User Computing/Desktop and Application Virtualization (WorkSpaces, AppStream, and WorkLink). Prior to AWS, Larry was CEO and Chairman of SugarCRM. Under his leadership, SugarCRM grew from $10M in annual revenue and a $15M loss to $100M in revenue and $7.5M in EBITDA. Accel-KKR acquired SugarCRM in August 2018. Larry has invested and served on the boards of numerous startups, including GitLab (IPO, GTLB), MindTouch (acquired by NICE), Pentaho (acquired by Hitachi Data Systems), Hyperic (acquired by VMWare), JBoss (acquired by Red Hat Software), XenSource (acquired by Citrix), Appcelerator (acquired by Axway), DNN (acquired by ESW Capital), VA Linux (IPO, LNUX), and the nonprofit industry consortium The Linux Foundation. One of the group who coined the term Open Source, Larry has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. Previously he served as interim CEO of Medsphere. From September 2002 to December 2004, he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners, where he helped lead Azure's investments in Zend and Medsphere. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX), where he served as CEO until August 2002 and led the company through an IPO in December 1999. The VA Linux IPO still holds the record for largest first day gain ever in an IPO of almost 900%. In November 1999 he launched SourceForge.net, the world's largest Open Source software development community. Also at VA Linux, he acquired Andover.net, merging SourceForge.net, Linux.com, Slashdot, and other well-known Open Source Internet sites to form the Open Source Development Network (OSDN). Larry holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

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Location: San Francisco, California, United States

Experience: 27 yrs 11 mos