Bio
JAY FULCHERs successful track record as CEO includes leading both public and private technology companies. Jay is Chairman CEO at Zenefits a leading cloud HCM Payroll and Benefits platform serving more than 11000 small and mid-sized SMB companies with up to 1000 employees. Zenefits mission is to ...level the playing field... for SMB s by delivering a people platform that helps them meet the challenges of the new world of work. Previously Jay was CEO of Ooyala a groundbreaking online video company that helped usher in the personalized cloud TV market. During Jays tenure as CEO Ooyala came to serve one of the largest online audiences anywhere with hundreds of customers in more than 30 countries including media and consumer heavyweights such as Bloomberg Caracol DirecTV ESPN FOXTEL News Corp Netflix Sky Univision Pac-12 Network RTL Times of India Vice Media Vox Media and Whole Foods. Ooyala was acquired by Telstra in 2014 for 440M. Prior to Ooyala Jay was CEO of Agile Software Nasdaq AGIL a public enterprise software company that pioneered the product lifecycle management PLM category. Agile had a successful IPO in 1999 and subsequent secondary offering before ultimately being acquired by Oracle for 495M in 2007. At the time of its acquisition more than 11000 customers globally used Agile as a catalyst technology enabling the distributed engineering and manufacturing era. Agile returned more than 2.5B on 24M in venture capital and was in the top third of all transactions at the time it was acquired. In addition to his CEO roles Jay has held senior executive roles at PeopleSoft President EVP Red Pepper Software SVP and SAP VP and has helped start and scale more than a dozen startups. Jay has an extensive and proven track record of delivering great returns for stakeholders and for leading high growth high performance high value businesses. Jay currently serves on the boards of Zenefits Chairman Onclusive and Splice Machine independent director. Jay is a member of the Global Leadership Council for the San Jose State University Lucas Graduate School and College of Business and is an advisor to several startups VCPE firms and investment banks. Jay is a devoted outdoorsman sports fan avid reader and is perpetually curious. He has visited more than 60 countries and loves to travel the world.