Leadership

AppDynamics is led by a senior team of innovators with deep experience in application performance management, systems management, and distributed systems. With a pedigree that includes companies such as CA Wily, HP Mercury, BMC, Symantec, Vontu, Oracle, and Sun, the team has created enterprise-grade solutions deployed at thousands of organizations.



Jyoti Bansal Founder and CEO Jyoti founded AppDynamics in early 2008 with the vision of defining the next-generation of application performance management (APM) solutions for distributed applications running in cloud, virtual, and physical environments. Before founding AppDynamics, Jyoti led the design and architecture for several products at Wily Technology. Wily was the pioneer and leader in the Java performance diagnostics space, and was acquired by Computer Associates for $375 million. Before Wily, Jyoti worked in senior engineering roles at Datasweep (acquired by Rockwell Automation) and netLens (acquired by Microsoft through FAST/Nextpage), where he built distributed application architectures for enterprise search and data mining. Jyoti received his BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He is the lead inventor on 14 US patent applications in the field of distributed applications management.


Steve Roop Vice President of Marketing Steve Roop joined AppDynamics in 2009 and is responsible for all facets of marketing including branding, demand generation, product marketing, competitive intelligence, marketing communications, and public relations. Prior to joining AppDynamics, Steve was Vontu's VP of Products & Marketing, where his strategies enabled Vontu to become the clear category leader in the Data Loss Prevention market and helped grow Vontu's revenue by triple digits each year. Steve also managed the strategic partnership with Symantec, which led to the $350 million acquisition. Prior to Vontu, Steve held executive positions at PeopleSoft where he was responsible for product management and product marketing for the supply chain and CRM product lines. Steve started his career at Accenture, where he led projects to design and build mission-critical applications. Steve received a B.S. Commerce degree in Finance from Santa Clara University.


Frank Swain Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales Frank brings to AppDynamics over 25 years of sales and executive leadership selling IT, cloud, and application performance management solutions. With deep expertise in direct and in-direct sales models, his goal is to build a world-class team. Prior to joining AppDynamics, Frank was Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Makara; before that, Frank was SVP of Worldwide Sales at Splunk, where he built a worldwide sales organization and grew revenues from $500,000 to $35,000,000 in three years. In addition, Frank ran Worldwide Channels for Wily Technology and was Global Account Manager for Mercury Interactive.


Bhaskar Sunkara Director of Engineering As Director of Engineering, Bhaskar is responsible for leading the company's engineering processes and incorporating customer feedback and input into every aspect of the product. The second employee to join AppDynamics, Bhaskar is responsible for many of the company's key innovations. Prior to joining AppDynamics, Bhaskar was Lead Engineer at Wily Technology, where he pioneered a dynamic instrumentation engine as well as the company’s product expansion into .NET. Prior to that, he was Lead Engineer for Pramati Technologies, where he was one of the key people behind the design and development of their J2EE Application Server. Bhaskar received a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Madras University.


Investors


Asheem Chandna, Greylock Partners Investor & Board Member Asheem has been a member of the AppDynamics Board of Directors since the company’s inception, and a partner at Greylock Partners since 2003. Greylock Partners is a private venture capital firm, founded in 1965, with committed capital of over $2 billion under management. Asheem’s areas of interest span enterprise IT infrastructure, software, and services; he has invested in companies in cloud computing, data center, virtualization, networking, management, and security. Prior to Greylock, Asheem was vice president of business development and product management at Check Point Software, during which the company grew from $10M to $500M in annual revenues. Asheem is a charter member of TiE Silicon Valley, and is on the panel of judges for the Wall Street Journal Global Technology Innovation Awards. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Case Western Reserve University.


Ravi Mhatre, Lightspeed Venture Partners Investor & Board Member Ravi has been a member of the AppDynamics Board of Directors since the company’s inception, and is a Managing Director and founder of Lightspeed Venture Partners--a leading global venture capital firm that manages over $2 billion of capital commitments. Ravi focuses primarily on software infrastructure, applications, and Internet investments. Before entering the venture capital industry, Ravi was with Silicon Graphics as a product manager, and also spent time in Lehman Brothers’ technology investment banking group and in management consulting with Booz Allen Hamilton. Ravi has served on the Board of Directors for The Indus Entrepreneurs Group (TiE) in Silicon Valley, has been recognized as a Top 100 dealmaker on Forbes’ Annual VC Midas List, and has served as a judge for the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Competition. Ravi holds a BS in electrical engineering, a BA in economics and an MBA from Stanford University.