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.
   
   

Stuart Horne

Vice President of Business Development

Stuart joined AppDynamics in 2011 and is responsible for forming strategic alliances that drive growth and revenue for the company. Prior to joining AppDynamics, Stuart was Vice President of Technology Alliances and Commercial Sales at Informatica, where he grew the company’s OEM partner base threefold over three years while growing OEM revenue over 100%. Before that he was Senior Director of Technology Alliances at Mercury Interactive, where he contributed to the company’s expansion into new customer ecosystems via strategic partners and contributed over $300 million in annual worldwide sales. Stuart has also held senior positions at SeeBeyond and PeopleSoft, and started his career as a consultant at Booz-Allen & Hamilton and Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).
   
   

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

VP of Product Experience

As VP of Product Experience, Bhaskar is responsible for product management, user experience, and field engineering enablement at AppDynamics. Bhaskar also drives AppDynamics' Customer-centric Innovation methodology to combine customer feedback with fast-paced innovation. Bhaskar was an original founder of AppDynamics and served as Director of Engineering responsible for all product development. 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.
   
   

Board of Directors
   
   

Jyoti Bansal, AppDynamics

Founder & CEO
   
   

Asheem Chandna, Greylock Partners

Founding 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.
   
   

Dev Ittycheria

Independent Board Member

Dev is a member of the board of directors of AppDynamics. Previously, Dev was the president of the Enterprise Service Management business of BMC Software, where he was responsible for a business with $1.2 billion in annual revenue and over 4,000 employees. During his tenure at BMC the company outperformed all relevant competition as measured by revenue growth and stock performance. Previously, as the co-founder, president and CEO, Dev and his team grew the business at a CAGR of nearly 100%, took BladeLogic public with a highly successful IPO in 2007, and sold BladeLogic to BMC for approximately $900M in 2008, which represented the highest multiple paid for any public technology company that year. Earlier, Dev was a pioneer in cloud computing/SaaS as the co-founder, president & CEO of Applica, which later merged with Breakaway Solutions and became one of the first public traded cloud/SaaS companies. He was recognized by Ernst & Young in 2004 as an Entrepreneur of the Year for his leadership at BladeLogic. Dev received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, and was recognized by the School of Engineering as its 2010 Alumnus of the Year.
   
   

Ravi Mhatre, Lightspeed Venture Partners

Founding 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.
   
   

Matt Murphy, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Investor and Board Observer

Matt Murphy is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He joined the firm in 1999 and manages the iFund, a collaborative initiative with Apple that focuses on funding and building defining applications on the iOS platform and the mobile internet. Matt’s expertise is in mobile solutions and cloud infrastructure technology. Previously, Matt was a board observer at Google (from initial investment to IPO) and led KPCB’s investment in AutoNavi (Nasdaq: AMAP, 2010). He also served as a director at Pelago (acquired by Groupon in 2011), Ocarina Networks (acquired by Dell in 2010), Dash Navigation (acquired by RIM in 2009) and Peakstream (acquired by Google in 2008). Before joining KPCB, Matt held key positions at Netboost (acquired by Intel), Booz Allen Hamilton, and Accenture. Matt holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
   
   

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