Experience

Sutter Hill Ventures

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Company Builder/Talent

  • Jul 2017 - Present

  Part of the engine that powers the machine. Part of the engine that powers the machine.



Observe, Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Company Builder/Investor

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Sutter Hill Ventures creation, constructed similarly to Snowflake. A new approach to observability. Sutter Hill Ventures creation, constructed similarly to Snowflake. A new approach to observability.



Ghost Autonomy

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Company Builder/Investor

  • Jul 2017 - Present

  Recruited the founding engineering team and continuing to build engineering. A new approach to AV's, which is nothing like the others. This is for those with a sense of adventure, who are mission-driven and who want to take a shot at actually changing the world. Recruited the founding engineering team and continuing to build engineering. A new approach to AV's, which is nothing like the others. This is for those with a sense of adventure, who are mission-driven and who want to take a shot at actually changing the world.



Luminary Cloud

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Company Builder/Investor

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  Re-imagining high-performance computing. Here we go again! Re-imagining high-performance computing. Here we go again!



Clumio

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Company Builder/Investor

  • Apr 2018 - Sep 2020

  Recruited the founding and early engineering teams. Recruited the founding and early engineering teams.



BirdDog, Inc.

• Marin County

• Company Builder

  • Oct 2006 - Dec 2017

  BirdDog recruits really talented engineers. I helped build the early engineering teams for: Nutanix, Didi Labs, Netskope, Elastica, Okta, ThoughtSpot, Nicira Networks (acq by Vmware), Dasient (acq by Twitter), FireEye and Palo Alto Networks (when they were both tiny) Twitter, and more... BirdDog recruits really talented engineers. I helped build the early engineering teams for: Nutanix, Didi Labs, Netskope, Elastica, Okta, ThoughtSpot, Nicira Networks (acq by Vmware), Dasient (acq by Twitter), FireEye and Palo Alto Networks (when they were both tiny) Twitter, and more...



ThoughtSpot

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Company Builder

  • Aug 2014 - Jan 2015

  Took up a project to help build beyond the initial 10. Amazing group of Engineers and awesome people. Took up a project to help build beyond the initial 10. Amazing group of Engineers and awesome people.



GravityPeople

• Builder of Companies

  • May 2004 - Aug 2006

  Managed a team of 7 Recruiters with my co-pilot Jeff Winter. I won't claim to have made these people, they did it all on their own ultimately, but this team was insane. Check out what they have gone on to: Jessica Neal, Joe Cheung, Jose Guardado, Peter Ballotta, Scott Bordenave and Larry Argueza In recruiter parlance, we crushed it, daily. Managed a team of 7 Recruiters with my co-pilot Jeff Winter. I won't claim to have made these people, they did it all on their own ultimately, but this team was insane. Check out what they have gone on to: Jessica Neal, Joe Cheung, Jose Guardado, Peter Ballotta, Scott Bordenave and Larry Argueza In recruiter parlance, we crushed it, daily.



Symantec

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Technical Recruiter

  • Aug 2002 - May 2004

  Recourse was acq by Symantec. I recruited nationally for core eng, security research. Recourse was acq by Symantec. I recruited nationally for core eng, security research.



Recourse Technologies

• Technical Recruiter

  • 2002 - 2002

  IDS Software and HoneyPot stuff... Acquired by Symantec IDS Software and HoneyPot stuff... Acquired by Symantec



Art Technology Group

• United States
• Software Development
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Recruiter

  • Feb 1999 - Sep 2001

  Recruiter for the San Francisco office - great people, great technology. Recruiter for the San Francisco office - great people, great technology.