Bio
CEO/Co-Founder of Peritus.ai, a venture funded AI startup. 25+ years as startup CEO, President/GM of 1B+ software businesses, and Product Executive in IT infrastructure products and management/security software. Domain experience spans silicon, scalable storage/compute, switches, data management, IT automation, security, and SaaS/cloud computing. Participated in multiple exits exceeding $20B in market value including VERITAS/SYMC ($14B), Mercury Interactive/HP ($4.5B) and lead product executive for 20+ M&A deals, including HP Software acquisitions of Arcsight and Fortify and VERITAS acquisition of Precise Software. CEO and board advisor for companies for funded by Sequoia Capital, August Capital, Lightspeed, Sapphire Ventures. President/P&L executive for Bain Capital’s largest software acquisition, BMC Software subsequently sold to KKR.