Greater Melbourne Area
I help software companies scale platforms, strengthen leadership teams, and navigate acquisitions. Operating executive and technical advisor with 30+ years building and scaling enterprise software businesses across observability, hybrid cloud, DevSecOps, and IT operations. Spent nearly two decades in Silicon Valley, leading global technology and operating organizations and scaling SaaS and infrastructure platforms from early growth to $70M+ revenue businesses. Extensive experience in platform transformation, M&A, and portfolio company growth, including acquisitions and integrations at Virtana, AutoRABIT, Mercury, and CA Technologies. Global leadership experience spanning North America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, including managing regional teams across Asia-Pacific and working closely with European software companies and customers. Currently advising Banyan Software portfolio companies worldwide, supporting technology due diligence, operating strategy, and leadership development across global acquisitions.
As a Technical Advisor to Banyan Software, I support technology and product strategy across portfolio companies and acquisitions worldwide. Over the past two years I have contributed to 20+ acquisitions across media, healthcare, banking, retail, insurance, and fleet management. My work focuses on strengthening product, engineering, and leadership capabilities across the portfolio in four areas: • Technical due diligence for acquisitions, assessing products, processes, architecture, engineering and product management maturity, scalability, security, and operational risk. • Fractional executive leadership, coaching and strategic advisory services, serving as interim CTO/CPO and trusted advisor to executive teams during transition and growth phases. • Global portfolio enablement through operating frameworks, best practices, and training to strengthen product and engineering execution. • Development of AI-powered tools to support technical due diligence, product management, and technology maturity assessment.
Advised product and platform leadership following HPE’s acquisition of OpsRamp, helping position the platform within the broader HPE GreenLake hybrid cloud strategy. Key contributions included: • Defined the positioning of HPE GreenLake as a Hybrid Cloud Operating Model, unifying operations across cloud and data center environments • Positioned OpsRamp as the operational intelligence layer enabling visibility, automation, and governance across hybrid infrastructure • Originated the concept of Agentic / Autonomous IT Operations, defining how AI-driven operations and collective intelligence can transform hybrid cloud management • Developed executive narratives and platform positioning used in analyst briefings, platform strategy discussions, and industry messaging
Led the evolution of Circonus from a web-scale monitoring platform to a full observability platform (metrics, logs, and traces). • Delivered a new observability platform from concept to launch in four months • Expanded the product from monitoring to full-stack observability • Built a Product-Led Growth (PLG) motion enabling low-touch product evaluation and adoption
Advised leadership on product strategy and positioning for a Kubernetes-centric AIOps platform delivering ML-driven performance insights and service mapping for cloud-native applications. • Shaped product strategy and positioning in the emerging AIOps and Kubernetes observability market • Helped position the company leading up to its acquisition by Virtana (2023)