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.
Ed Rowe
Senior Vice President of Engineering
Ed joined AppDynamics in 2012 and is responsible for all Development, Quality Engineering, Documentation and Release Management. Prior to joining AppDynamics, Ed was VP of Product Development for Adobe’s developer products including Flex, Flash Builder and Cold Fusion, leading over 100 developers, testers and product managers across multiple countries. Ed was the driving force behind Adobe AIR, and co-founded and led AIR as a startup project within Adobe. Before that, Ed was one of the key engineers behind Adobe Acrobat Reader, a product used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.
Joe Sexton
President of Worldwide Field Operations
Joe joined AppDynamics in 2012 and is responsible for all field operations, including sales, marketing, business development and customer success. Prior to joining AppDynamics, Joe was Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales at McAfee, where he was responsible for $2.5 billion in annual sales and managed an organization of 2,000 people. Under his leadership McAfee doubled its sales, resulting in a $7.7 billion acquisition by Intel in 2011. Before joining McAfee, Joe served as Senior Vice President of the Americas at Mercury Interactive, where he helped triple sales to $1 billion by establishing Mercury’s leadership in the Enterprise market. While there, Hewlett Packard acquired Mercury Interactive in 2006 for $4.5 billion. Joe has also held executive sales positions at EMC, Integrated Concepts, and CA Technologies. Joe graduated from the University of Kentucky with a bachelor’s degree in marketing.
Hatim Shafique
Vice President of Customer Success and Operations
Hatim joined Appdynamics as the first hire to help support customer success. Since then he has helped build a world-class organization that has produced groundbreaking Net Promoter Score results, indicating strong customer satisfaction and loyalty among the AppDynamics customer base. As VP of Customer Success and Operations, Hatim is responsible for helping customers through technical support and continuous education & enablement; he is also responsible for SAAS & IT operations as well as sales enablement engineering. Before joining Appdynamics, Hatim was Director of Quality Engineering at CA Wily where he helped build and grow the onshore and offshore quality engineering teams and led the overall quality initiative for the Wily APM product suite including their flagship Introscope product. Hatim also played a key role in Wily's expansion into .Net and End User Monitoring. Before joining Wily, Hatim held several development and QE positions working on Java /J2EE products. Hatim holds a Masters in Computer Science from University of Southern California.
Bhaskar Sunkara
Vice President of Product Management
As VP of Product Management, 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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