Management Team
Vineet Jain
CEO
Vineet is the CEO and co-founder of Egnyte. Prior to Egnyte, Vineet founded and successfully built Valdero, a supply chain software solution provider, funded by KPCB, MDV and Trinity Ventures. He has held a rich variety of senior operational positions at companies like KPMG, Bechtel, etc. in the past. He has 20 years of experience in building capital-efficient and nimble organizations. Vineet earned a BS in Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering and received an MBA from Santa Clara University.
Rajesh Ram
VP Product Management
Rajesh is a co-founder of Egnyte. He leads the product management and customer support teams. Rajesh's strength in defining, delivering and supporting software solutions was developed while at Oracle, KPMG consulting and Valdero Corporation. Rajesh holds a BS in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras and received an MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Minnesota.
Steve Erbst
VP Worldwide Sales
Steve is responsible for direct sales and channel development at Egnyte. Steve brings more than 20 years of senior management experience in the leadership and management of global and domestic sales operations, generating over $350 million in revenue. Prior to Egnyte, Steve held management positions at RSA Security (acquired by EMC), Network Chemistry (acquired by Aruba), and Sana Security (acquired by AVG Technologies). Most recently he was director of worldwide sales for Cisco’s collaboration products after their $215M acquisition of PostPath. Steve has a BSC in Finance from Santa Clara University.
Barry Davis
VP Business Development
Barry is responsible for business development, strategic alliances, and ecosystem partnerships. Barry brings more than 20 years of business development experience to Egnyte, and has held senior-level business development and sales management positions with leading technology firms including ArcSight (acquired by HP), Citrix, and Lotus Development (acquired by IBM). Barry has a BS in Finance from Lehigh University and an MBA from Adelphi University.
Balaji Venkateswaran
VP Engineering
Balaji has over 20 years of executive and senior engineering management experience. He was VP of Engineering at GuardianEdge Technologies, the leader in endpoint encryption technologies, and was instrumental in its acquisition by Symantec in June 2010. Prior to that, he worked as an engineering leader at numerous top-tier, venture-backed and public companies such as Elemental Security, Ventaso, Evolve Software, TCSI and Fujitsu. Balaji holds a BS from the University of Pune and an MS from the University of South Carolina-Columbia.
Janet Matsuda
VP Marketing
Janet over 20 years of marketing and business management experience to the Egnyte team. Prior to Egnyte, she was the general manager of the Professional Graphics business at AMD. She has a track record of delivering results in demand generation, product marketing, product management & marketing operations at Mercury Interactive, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard. Janet earned a BS in Computer Science from the University of lowa and received her MBA from Harvard Business School.
Amrit Jassal
CTO
Amrit is a co-founder of Egnyte and responsible for the overall technical architecture of the product. He has extensive experience in building large scale, highly available systems. In the past he has deployed such systems at Cisco, Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems. Prior to Egnyte, he served as the CTO of Valdero. Amrit received a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi and earned an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore.
Kris Lahiri
VP Operations and Chief Security Officer
Kris is a co-founder of Egnyte. He is responsible for Egnyte's security and compliance, as well as core infrastructure, including storage and data center operations. Prior to Egnyte, Kris has spent many years in the design and deployment of large scale infrastructure for Fortune 100 customers of Valdero and KPMG Consulting. Kris has a B.Tech in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology - Banaras, and an MS from the University of Cincinnati.
Board of Directors
Vineet Jain
Vineet Jain serves as Egnyte's CEO.
Dave Barrett
Dave Barrett is a general partner of Polaris Ventures' Boston office, having joined Polaris in April 2000. He focuses on investment opportunities in technology, including interests in both early and growth-stage internet software businesses. He is exceptionally experienced in on-demand business models, with particular background in infrastructure, financial and healthcare service technologies.
Mike Maples
Mike Maples, Jr. is the managing partner of Floodgate Fund (formerly Maples Investments), and was recently named as one of "8 Rising VC Stars" by Fortune Magazine. Before becoming a full-time investor, Mike was an entrepreneur and operating executive who worked in a variety of senior management roles in high-growth companies.
Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; he joined in 1999. Murphy manages the iFund at KPCB, a collaborative initiative with Apple focused on funding and building defining applications on the iOS platform and the mobile internet. His expertise is in both mobile solutions and cloud infrastructure technology. Murphy is either a Director or works closely with the management teams of Booyah!, GOGII, Pelago, Shazam, shopkick, RGB Networks, Stoke, Aerohive Networks, Egnyte, and Puppet Labs. Previously, Murphy was a board observer at Google (from initial investment to IPO) , led KP's investment in Autonavi (NASDAQ: AMAP '10), and was a Director at Ocarina Networks (acquired by Dell '10), Peakstream (acquired by Google '08), Dash Navigation (acquired by RIM '09).
Ismael Ghalimi
Ismael Ghalimi is a passionate entrepreneur and fervent industry observer, founder and CEO of Intalio, producer of the Office 2.0 Conference, and organizer of the Extreme Productivity Seminars. Ismael is a professional scuba diver, instrument-rated airplane private pilot, and American V-Twin rider. He lives in Palo Alto, CA.
Advisors
Manish Chandra
Manish Chandra is an angel investor, mentor and advisor to several technology and media companies. He currently sits on boards of Moxsie, the leading site for indie fashion, and GenWi, the leader in enabling publishers to create mobile applications. He was most recently at Hearst Corporation as the founder and CEO of Kaboodle, the Internet's largest social website for passionate shoppers. Prior to Kaboodle, Manish was the VP of Worldwide Marketing at Versant Corporation (NASDAQ: VSNT), a company he joined after he catalyzed the acquisition of Mokume Software by Versant. Before Versant, Manish served in various roles at Versata, including VP of Marketing and Product Strategy. While there, he was part of the executive team that grew the company from 8 to 600, and took Versata public in March 2000.
Bobby Johnson
Bobby Johnson is Director of Engineering at Facebook, where he has led software development for scaling and performance from 7 million users to over 800 million. He is responsible for much of the site's architecture, including a cache cluster that holds trillions of objects and handles billions of queries per second, and a filesystem with hundreds of billions of files. He was the original author of scribe, and a co-inventor of haystack. He has a B.S. from Caltech in Engineering and Applied Science.
Douglas Jones
As SVP of Worldwide Sales and Corporate Development at Lithium Technologies, Douglas Jones leads the organization's new customer acquisition and account management initiatives. He brings over 20 years of professional experience as an executive for high-growth companies. Doug also served as Entrepreneur-in-Residence for BridgeScale Partners, a technology-focused, growth equity fund in Menlo Park. Prior to BridgeScale, Doug held several senior positions with Interwoven, Inc., the leading provider of enterprise content management solutions. Doug's roles at Interwoven included Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Vice President of Business Development, and Vice President of North American Sales. He holds an MBA from IESE in Spain and a BA from the University of Colorado. Additionally, Doug is an active angel investor and serves on the Peninsula School Board of Directors. He was President of the Board in 2008-2009.
Christopher Lochhead
Christopher Lochhead is strategy and marketing advisor. He is a former, three-time Chief Marketing Officer with over twenty years of experience as an operating executive. Lochhead served as the CMO of Mercury Interactive, the leader in Business Technology Optimization (BTO) software. In 2006 HP purchased Mercury for $5.1 billion. Prior to Mercury, Lochhead was Chief Executive Officer of LOCHHEAD Corporation, a boutique strategy-consulting firm. He was CMO of Scient, an Internet consulting firm, as well as Executive Vice President at Vantive, a customer relationship management software company that was acquired by PeopleSoft in 1999. He loves being a ski/surf bum, an occasional writer, and keynote speaker.
Sunil Singh
As Chief of Asia Pacific and Managing Director for India, Sunil Singh is responsible for managing GlobalLogic's overall business in the Asia Pacific region as well as managing its India operations and market development. A Silicon Valley resident, Singh has played a major role in the technology landscape for both enterprise software and consumer internet spaces. Prior to joining GlobalLogic, Singh served as CEO of Informance International, a Silicon Valley company funded by NEA and Mayfield. His career includes executive positions at high-tech firms such as AppNet (acquired by CommerceOne) and newScale, and founder roles at companies such as Mokume (acquired by Versant) and VisionWorks (acquired by FI Group).
