San Francisco Bay Area
Serial entrepreneur and startup executive with a proven track record of delivering successful company outcomes: • Cloud.com – acquired by Citrix 2011 • Vontu – acquired by Symantec 2007 • Kana – IPO 1999 • Connectify – acquired by Kana 1999 Ability to develop business, sell, partner, and exceed plans in new and emerging markets. Extensive experience in sales, business development/alliances, and services leadership roles in both commercial enterprise/B2B and open source software. Specialties include cloud management, virtualization, information security, and international market development. Team leader who hires, coaches, and inspires members to excel and embody the company culture.
Kong creates software and managed services that connect APIs and microservices natively across and within clouds, Kubernetes, data centers, and more using intelligent automation. Built on an open-source core, Kong’s service connectivity platform enables digital innovation by allowing organizations to reliably and securely manage the full lifecycle of APIs and services for modern architectures, including microservices, serverless and service mesh.
Mashape develops innovative API management products and open source tools to enable Microservices, Serverless, and IoT. Their project Kong is the most popular open source API gateway. Backed by Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Eric Schmidt (Google), Stanford University, VC firms CRV and Index Ventures, and other industry leaders.
Soliton Cyber & Analytics is the information security subsidiary of Soliton Systems K.K. (http://www.solitoncyber.com/ http://www.soliton.co.jp/).