Bio

Enterprise software executive with over 20 years experience running software and systems businesses from $250M to $20BN. Extensive experience in product development - storage arrays, storage software, data protection software, security software, application development software - teams of 200 up to 12000 professionals with $2BN expense line. Extensive experience in marketing - Dell Technologies (Dell, Dell EMC, VMware, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream), EMC, Oracle Database, Oracle Applications & VERITAS Storage Software - running teams of up to ~3000 and ~$1.5B budget. Strategic M&A experience. Ran successful acquisition / integration of DSSD, TwinStrata, Maginatics, CloudScaling (EMC), DCT, KVS (VERITAS), BindView (Symantec) & IMLogic (Symantec). Started up SaaS businesses inside large organizations - from product re-architecture to infrastructure to business model. Co-founded and built the largest Oracle Community on the internet - Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Grew from zero to over 2M members. Over 6M members today. Specialties: Full P&L Management, Development of Enterprise Software, Marketing, Strategic M&A