AZUL SYSTEMS - Key Persons
Andrew leads all of Azul's global marketing initiatives, including core marketing disciplines, product management, community and evangelism.
Andrew has over 20 years in high-growth enterprise software and SaaS companies. As the head of marketing, he's helped lead the growth of salesforce.com's largest product line; the successful acquisition of KXEN by SAP; the IPO of Aconex, Australia's largest tech company; the rapid growth of AppDynamics and the company's integration into Cisco; and BetterCloud's game-changing launch of the #SaaSOps movement.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Partner Alliances
With more than 35 years of experience in marketing, sales and management at leading enterprise hardware and software companies, George provides corporate development strategy for Azul Systems.
Prior to joining Azul, George was Business Unit Executive at BEA Systems, running the AquaLogic Service Bus Platform group. Other positions at BEA included Managing Director of the AquaLogic Center of Excellence and Director and Business Manager of BEA's TP Platform, including BEA Tuxedo.
Before joining BEA, George was Co-founder and Vice President of Products for Rearden Commerce (now Deem), a SaaS-based enterprise travel and services company. He was also Director of Products and Marketing at Amplitude Software, acquired by CriticalPath in 1999, and at CenterView Software, acquired by Informix in 1997.
Additionally, George has held marketing, sales and engineering positions at Pyramid Technology and Digital Medical Systems. George holds an MBA from Berkeley and a BSEE from Tufts University.
Ian is responsible for all aspects of Azul's revenue including sales, presales, channel and professional services.
Ian brings immense experience leading companies through rapid revenue growth and successful outcomes. Whiting comes to Azul from Silver Peak Systems (acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise), where he ran global field operations. Prior to that, Ian led global sales at Ruckus Wireless (acquired by Brocade), Fusion-IO (acquired by SanDisk) and Riverbed. At Brocade, Ian was responsible for worldwide sales and marketing, and over his 11 years there helped grow the business to over $2.3b in revenue.
Ian was born in Oxford England and grew up west of London in Reading. He went to the University of Swansea in Wales where he graduated with a BA Honors degree in French and German. He completed his master's degree in European Business Management at Cranfield University in Bedford, England.
Ian is a life-long Manchester United fan and longtime season ticket holder at the San Jose Sharks NHL team (it's been a rough few years!) He enjoys golf, reading, walking Klaus, his German Shepherd, and listening to music (think Red Hot Chili Peppers).
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Finance
With comprehensive experience in financial reporting, planning, and taxation at leading software and semiconductor companies, Jennifer leads the Azul Systems Finance team and is responsible for managing the accounting, financial planning, tax, banking, and design and execution of the company's financial policies and procedures.
Prior to joining Azul, Jennifer was Corporate Controller at TZero. Jennifer has also held management positions at Xilinx and AMD.
Jennifer Wang is a California CPA and holds an MBA from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President, Engineering
Peter has more than 25 years of strategic financial management and business leadership accomplishments including 19 years of executive leadership for Software as a Service (SaaS) companies. Peter's experience includes public and private companies, equity and debt financings, corporate development, buy-side and sell-side M&A, strategic and financial planning, investor relations, risk and balance sheet management, and driving sustained profitable growth.
Prior to Azul, Peter was CFO at Jobvite responsible for leading business and financial strategy. Before Jobvite, Peter was CFO at E2OPEN (NASDAQ: EOPN), where he led E2OPEN's successful IPO, follow-on offering, and sale of the company. Prior to E2open, Peter was CFO at SNOCAP, where he was responsible for all corporate finance, administrative operations, strategic development, and customer care functions. Peter co-led the successful sale of SNOCAP. Before SNOCAP, Peter served as CFO for Keynote Systems (NASDAQ: KEYN), where he directed financial strategy and performance, and completed eleven acquisitions and two tender offers.
Prior to Keynote Systems, Peter held senior financial management positions at Adaptive Broadband, Republic Industries, Dole Food Company and Arthur Andersen. Peter is a Certified Public Accountant, holds an MBA in Corporate Finance from USC's Marshall School of Business, and a BBA in Economics from Temple University's Fox School of Business.
With more than 30 years of successful leadership in building high technology companies and delivering advanced products to market, Scott provides the overall strategic leadership and visionary direction for Azul Systems.
Scott has a consistent proven track record of vision, leadership, and success in enterprise, consumer and scientific markets. Prior to co-founding Azul Systems, Scott founded 3dfx Interactive, a graphics processor company that pioneered the 3D graphics market for personal computers and game consoles. Scott served at 3dfx as Vice President of Engineering, CTO and as a member of the board of directors and delivered 7 award-winning products and developed 14 different graphics processors. After a successful initial public offering, 3dfx was later acquired by NVIDIA Corporation.
Prior to 3dfx, Scott was a CPU systems architect at Pellucid, later acquired by MediaVision. Before Pellucid, Scott was a member of the technical staff at Silicon Graphics where he designed high-performance workstations.
Scott graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor of science, earning magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors. Scott has been granted 8 patents in high performance graphics and computing and is a regularly invited keynote speaker at industry conferences.