SYSDIG CLOUD - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Principal at Permira
Alex is a Principal at Permira, where he focuses on Permira's Growth strategy, which makes large-scale minority, non-control investments. He also covers investment opportunities in the Technology sector. Alex has worked on numerous transactions including FullStory, G2 and Seismic. He currently is a Board Observer at FullStory and G2. Prior to joining Permira, Alex was a Senior Vice President at TA Associates, where he led growth equity and buyout investments in the software, security, internet and digital media sectors. Prior to that, he worked at Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital in Menlo Park, CA. He also worked in strategy and operations at DiscoverOrg. Alex has degrees in Business Administration and Psychology from University of Southern California, USA, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, USA.
Colleen (she/her) is responsible for Sysdig's legal affairs, including licensing, intellectual property, compliance, privacy, and corporate governance. With more than 15 years of senior in-house counsel experience, she has spent the majority of her career advising tech companies of all sizes, most especially in the enterprise software and SaaS space. Colleen has deep experience in tech transactions focused on global commercial sales, business development, and strategic licensing, including open source and product support, with a special emphasis on scaling processes and legal teams to address deal velocity and rapid revenue growth.
Before joining Sysdig, Colleen held senior legal positions at Magento Commerce (acquired by Adobe), Nimble Storage (IPO and subsequently acquired by Hewlett Packard Enterprise), and VMware (IPO). She successfully helped lead the mergers of both Nimble Storage and Magento Commerce and worked with both acquiring companies to advise and integrate the legal processes post-acquisition.
Colleen holds a B.A. in Political Science from Whitman College and a Juris Doctorate from Santa Clara University School of Law. She is admitted to practice law in the State of California.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- President
Enrique joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2014, where he focuses on infrastructure software and services with a specialization in cybersecurity. He is chairman of the board for FireEye and sits on the board of DocuSign and Atlassian, along with a number of private companies. Enrique was previously the president and CEO of Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) and brings more than 27 years of executive experience in technology and security to Bain Capital Ventures. Through his 19 years at the global leader for security, backup, and availability solutions, Enrique also served as the executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing and president of consumer products. Before Symantec, he was president and CEO of Brightmail, the leading anti-spam software company acquired by Symantec in 2004.
In March 2011, Enrique was appointed to President Barack Obama's Management Advisory Board. He currently serves on the boards of several portfolio companies, including DocuSign, and serves independently on the boards of FireEye, Atlassian and ForeScout.
Enrique was named 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, and 2007 Corporate Executive of the Year by Hispanic Net. Enrique received his Bachelor of Arts in computer science from Dartmouth College.
Eric Wolford joined Accel in 2014 and focuses on enterprise infrastructure companies. He leverages his infrastructure and IT experience in working with founders across the enterprise stack, from next-gen analytics platforms like Jut, to emerging cloud security and threat detection companies like Netskope and Vectra. Eric also co-leads the Accel Tech Council.
Prior to Accel, Eric spent years in a variety of product and management roles at FastForward Networks, Inktomi and most recently, at Riverbed where he was president of the products group. There, he oversaw the growth of Riverbed's flagship WAN optimization and app acceleration platforms, which grew to be a USD $1 billion+ business.
Eric is from the Bay Area, graduated from Pepperdine and has an MBA from NYU.
Janet (she/her) leads marketing at Sysdig. She is a computer scientist turned marketer with a proven track record of helping to build category leading companies and driving revenue growth. Prior to joining Sysdig, Janet served in leadership roles at Palo Alto Networks, Nimble Storage, Blue Coat Systems and AMD. Janet repositioned Palo Alto Networks for the cloud security opportunity. At Nimble Storage she designed the predictive flash category, driving the next wave of growth and sale eighteen months later to HPE for $1 Billion. Under Janet's leadership, the Blue Coat marketing team repositioned the company, revitalized the brand and built a demand creation engine, contributing to a company valuation that nearly doubled in three years. Janet holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Iowa and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive Director of a Non - Profit Board
Karen (she/her) has joined Sysdig as Chief Financial Officer and will play an instrumental role in managing the company's growth and strategy. Karen is an experienced and accomplished executive having served both pre-IPO and public companies. She brings over 20 years of experience across corporate finance, accounting and compliance, and investor relations. She has held executive positions at a wide network of industry leaders including PagerDuty, Uber Technologies, Pandora Media, CBS Interactive and Virgin America.
Throughout her career Karen has scaled finance teams in high growth and global organizations to deliver stakeholder value - most notably at Uber Technologies. She also led early IPO readiness at Uber and Virgin America. Karen has deep experience in M&A having participated in and led many aspects of nearly a dozen transactions including the successful sale of Pandora Media to Sirius XM. Karen has also played a key role in developing strategic positioning having built and led the investor relations function at PagerDuty.
She holds a BA in Accounting from Southern Methodist University. Karen is an executive director of a non-profit board, the Golden West Chapter of the ALS Association.
Keegan (he/him) leads all sales, presales, channel, and customer success functions. Prior to joining Sysdig, Keegan was VP of North American Data Storage Sales for Hewlett Packard Enterprise, where he lead a $1.5B annual business. Previous roles include VP of Americas Sales at Nimble Storage, and sales leadership roles at HP and EMC Corporation. Keegan holds an MBA from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering. He lives in the Chicago area with his wife and two daughters.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Product Management
Knox (he/him) is responsible for product management at Sysdig. He has held product marketing, sales and product management roles throughout his career, including five years at Sysdig. As one of the first Sysdig employees, Knox has helped to lead Sysdig from the ground up, with a proven record of building, launching and growing security, health and compliance applications built on top of containers and kubernetes.
Knox has been behind several groundbreaking initiatives at Sysdig, including helping to launch and grow Sysdig Secure and developing the customer success program. Through his leadership, Knox has led many of Sysdig's key partner programs, including AWS, IBM and Red Hat.
Before joining Sysdig, Knox held senior program manager roles at NuoDB, a distributed SQL database company, where he focused on creating technical content and demand generation to drive net new logos for the company.
Knox holds a BSBA in Management Information Systems and Services from Boston University Questrom School of Business.
Job Titles:
- Chief Technology Officer
- Founder
Loris (he/him) is the Chief Technology Officer and founder of Sysdig. He is also the creator of the popular open source troubleshooting tool, sysdig, and the open source container security tool Falco. Prior to founding Sysdig, Loris co-created Wireshark, the open source network analyzer, which today has 20+ million users. Loris holds a PhD in computer engineering from Politecnico di Torino and lives in Davis, California.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Research and Development
Omer (he/him) is Vice President of Research and Development at Sysdig, Inc. where he built Sysdig Secure from the ground up and scaled a global team. Omer's direction helped position Sysdig Secure as the market leading Kubernetes and cloud security tool.
Prior to joining Sysdig, Omer was the VP Engineering at Imperva, a cybersecurity software and services company that provides protection to enterprise data and application software. While scaling the field R&D team, he worked closely with engineering, sales, and product teams on key deals and marquee accounts. Later, Omer bootstrapped a new cloud data security product, processing petabytes a day using state-of-the-art cloud-native technology to disrupt the market.
Omer is passionate about growing high performing teams and building successful products. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Originally from Israel, Omer moved to the United States in 2014 with his wife.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Global Sales Engineering & Chief Customer Success Leader
Paris (he/him) is the Vice President of Global Sales Engineering & Customer Success at Sysdig.
His passion is helping customers operating in cloud-native environments to maximize their investments and ROI by utilizing Sysdig to secure and manage their containers and microservices at scale, all while solving their most complex operational challenges.
Job Titles:
- Chief Human Resource Officer
- Global Human Resource Executive
Paul (he/him) is Chief Human Resource Officer at Sysdig. Paul is a global human resource executive with more than 20 years of experience. At Sysdig, Paul leads the team that creates and drives strategies around people engagement and experience, focused on recruiting top talent, cultivating company culture and helping the Sysdig team to realize its potential.
Prior to Sysdig, Paul was the Chief People Officer at Cohesity and Databricks and held a similar role at Nimble Storage. Paul has a passion for building great company cultures and has helped two former companies through successful IPOs. Hailing from the UK, Paul currently lives in San Jose with his wife and 2 schnauzers.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Corporate Development & Strategic Alliances
Phil (he/him) is responsible for all corporate development, strategic alliances and global systems integrator (GSI) initiatives at Sysdig where he leads the team focused on building strategic partnerships across the security, cloud, and Kubernetes spaces. Phil has a passion for developing strategic alliances and ecosystems that deliver true value for both the partner and joint customers, and he has proven this in both startup and large public technology companies.
Prior to joining Sysdig, Phil led the corporate development & strategic alliances strategies for Hedvig, a pioneer in the software-defined and container storage markets, as well as, Kaminario, a leading early-stage startup in the all-flash storage market. Phil previously held executive leadership positions at Dell, as well as, Netapp, where he led the global strategic alliances strategy and team.
Phil holds a B.S. in Commerce & Business Administration from the University of Alabama Culverhouse School of Business and lives in the San Francisco area.
Ping Li focuses on enterprise software application and datacenter platform investments. He is the lead investor and board member at Cognite, Jelly.ai, Klaviyo, Tailscale and Trifacta. Ping is also active in cybersecurity as an investor at Code42, Illumio, Lookout, Snyk, Sysdig and Tenable Network Security (NASDAQ).
He was responsible for numerous past investments with notable exits, including Arista (NASDAQ), Blue Jeans (acquired by Verizon), Cloudera (NYSE), Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Heptio (acquired by VMware), Nimble Storage (NYSE), RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce), Semmle (acquired by MSFT/GitHub), and Sumo Logic (NASDAQ). Prior to Accel, Ping served as product line manager and director of corporate development at Juniper Networks. He started his technology career in Asia working for Singapore Telecom and Goldman Sachs Asia's technology practice.
Ping is from New Jersey and graduated from Harvard and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Since June 2000, Mr. Schwartz has been Managing Partner of Third Point Ventures, the Menlo Park, California based venture capital arm of Third Point LLC, which is a registered investment adviser based in New York and the investment manager of the Third Point Funds. Mr. Schwartz is presently a director of Sysdig, CipherTrace, Kentik, Kumu Networks, Aryaka, Upstart (Nasdaq:UPST), Precision Hawk, R2 Semiconductor, Rubicon Labs, SentinelOne, YellowBrick Data, Ushur, and Catalytic.
Previously he led investments in Radia Communications (acquired by Texas Instruments), LitePoint (acquired by Teradyne), Global Locate (Acquired by Broadcom), EnPhase Energy (Nasdaq : ENPH), Apigee (Nasdaq: APIC, Acquired by Alphabet/GOOG), IQ Engines (Acquired by Yahoo!), Elastica (acquired by BlueCoat), Swift Financial (Acquired by PayPal), CloudVelox (acquired by VMWare), and Packet (acquired by Equinix). Previously, for 23 years, Mr. Schwartz was the President of RF Associates North, a privately held communications semiconductor manufacturer's representative firm. Mr. Schwartz holds a multi-discipline engineering degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Managing Partner at Premji Invest
Sandesh Patnam is the US Managing Partner at Premji Invest, where he oversees their multi-strategy crossover fund with over $10bn in AUM across the Consumer, Technology, and Financial sectors. At PI, he directed investments in Anaplan (NYSE: PLAN), Zuora (NYSE: ZUO), Coupa (NYSE: COUP), Looker (acq. by Google for $2.85bn), Apttus (acq. by Thoma Bravo for $1.85bn), ServiceMax (acq. by GE for $1.0bn), Icertis, DataStax, Lookout, Cyngn, and Signifyd.
Prior to Premji Invest, Sandesh had a brief tenure as a partner as DFJ Growth, where he co-led investments in Cohesity, Stripe, and Innovium. He was also a Senior Equity Analyst and Investment Officer at the Seligman Technology Group at Ameriprise where he helped manage over $8bn in both long-only and long-short investment vehicles, in addition to leading their software and IT infrastructure equity portfolios. Before Seligman, Sandesh was a General Partner at Bay Partners, where he led several deals in their IT infrastructure and SaaS practices. Prior to his investing career, Sandesh held product and business roles at Malleable Technologies, Silicon Graphics, Integrated Device Technologies, and Cirrus Logic.
Sandesh earned an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business, and a BS in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Economics from the University of Rochester. In his spare time, he is an avid squash player, and sits on the board of Squash On Track, a non-profit providing after-school athletics to students in under-served communities.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Engineering and Technology for Monitor & Platform
Saro (he/him) is the Vice President of Engineering and Technology for Monitor & Platform at Sysdig. Saro leads all development, testing, delivery, and operations for the Sysdig Secure DevOps Platform and Sysdig Monitor product lines. Prior to joining Sysdig, Saro was the Chief Technology Officer at Quid, an AI-powered SaaS data analytics company, until its acquisition in 2020. At Quid, Saro led the engineering, product, data science, and design teams.
Prior to Quid, Saro led the engineering team at Terracotta, a leader at that time in optimizing the performance of large-scale distributed applications. Saro was with Terracotta from an early stage through its acquisition by Software AG in 2011. He then joined Software AG as the Head of Engineering, focused on big data. Saro previously held engineering roles at Fujitsu Network Communications Inc. and Wipro Technologies. He holds a B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Marketing, Demand Generation
Shanta (she/her) is responsible for worldwide demand generation at Sysdig. She has more than 20 years of experience across all marketing functions including integrated marketing, operations, global/field demand, customer success, and product marketing. Shanta is recognized as a GTM & demand generation strategist with a proven record to build scalable, high performing global programs focused on net new logo acquisition and customer expansion.
Before joining Sysdig, Shanta held senior marketing roles at enterprise security and software companies including Palo Alto Networks, Nimble Storage (acquired by HPE), and Blue Coat Systems (acquired by Symantec).
Shanta holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in marketing from California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo.
Suresh (he/him) has served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Sysdig, Inc. since February 2018. Prior to joining Sysdig, Suresh was the president and CEO of Nimble Storage, Inc. His tenure extended from March 2011 until its acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in May 2017. During his time at the company, he led Nimble from a startup, through a successful IPO, and on to be a leading provider of next-generation flash storage systems and a pioneer in leveraging predictive analytics for infrastructure management, with more than $500 million in annualized revenues and over 10,000 customers.
Prior to Nimble Storage, he was the CEO of Omneon (acquired by Harmonic Inc.), and previously served as a member of the executive team at NetApp, overseeing all product operations. During a decade-long career at NetApp, Suresh led the company's product strategy and product development and was a key architect of the steady expansion of NetApp's product portfolio into new markets. Before joining NetApp, Suresh served at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Chicago as a senior engagement manager.
He holds a B.E. degree in Electrical Engineering, with honors, from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in Pilani, India and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Calcutta, India.