The Aerospike Real-time Data Platform enables organizations to act instantly across billions of transactions while reducing server footprint up to 80%. The Aerospike multi-cloud platform powers real-time applications with predictable sub-millisecond performance up to petabyte scale with five-nines uptime with globally distributed, strongly consistent data. Applications built on the Aerospike Real-time Data Platform fight fraud, provide recommendations that dramatically increase shopping cart size, enable global digital payments, and deliver hyper-personalized user experiences to tens of millions of customers.

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Stephanie Grethen is currently the Chief Customer Officer at [Aerospike](/org/aerospike). Stephanie has previously held this position at SAP Labs LLC from June 2007 to June 2021. Stephanie has been a VP, Chief Customer Officer and Strategic Customer Advisor, SAP S/4HANA (Cloud) since July 2021. In this role, they are responsible for end to end customer success management for the Global Head of Development for SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud, including establishing a customer office, management of all customer relationships and meetings, executive sponsorships, content and presence management of key international events and Strategic Advisory Board meetings. Stephanie is also accountable for adoption, value realization, customer health and satisfaction, acting as customer advocate to improve product and adoption tools. 

As a trusted advisor and executive project sponsor for SAP’s flagship product SAP S/4HANA (Cloud), Stephanie provides roadmap and adoption planning guidance as well as migration supervision to strategic Fortune 100 customers becoming Intelligent Enterprises through Digital Transformation and use of innovative technologies (ML and AI) with either on-premise, cloud or hybrid deployments. Stephanie is also a speaker at and producer of internal and external events.

Stephanie Grethen holds a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of applied sciences for Public Administration Rhineland-Palatinate. Stephanie also has a certification from [California State University, Chico](/org/california-state-university-chico) in Advisory Council For Women in Leadership For Executives. Stephanie is currently enrolled in [Stanford University](/org/stanford)'s d.school, where they are studying Design Thinking.

Their manager is Subbu Iyer, CEO. Stephanie Grethen works with Lenley Hensarling - Chief Strategy Officer, Jim LoDestro - Chief Revenue Officer, and Agape Eleftheriadis - VP, People & Culture.

Stephanie Grethen

James offers 25 years of database sector expertise to Aerospike. James joined the company from Percona, where he trebled the business in EMEA and APAC. Prior to Percona, he was regional Vice President for Northern Europe at DataStax, managing enterprise sales to achieve double-digit growth. At Aerospike, James is tasked with developing regional sales teams that meet the exacting SLAs of today's data-driven enterprise.

Martin James

Bill Odell has spent over 25 years in the trenches launching new products, building businesses and leading high performance marketing organizations. He is passionate about helping educate customers on how to apply new technology solutions that help drive transformative business outcomes. Bill has held executive positions at [Cisco](/org/cisco), Dell Software and [SonicWall](/org/sonicwall-inc) as well as multiple category-creating growth stage B2B technology companies.

Bill Odell

Dain F. DeGroff is a co-founding partner of Triangle Peak Partners, LP and serves as President. He has significant experience working with private and public companies, providing strategic, process, and financing solutions. Prior to Triangle Peak, he served as a Managing Director with Fort Mason Capital, where he conducted private, direct investments in private and public companies, focusing on the Technology, Alternative Energy, and Energy sectors.

Prior to Fort Mason, Dain was an investment banker at both Hambrecht & Quist and JP Morgan, where he executed numerous M&A, debt and equity transactions in the technology sector and also led both firms’ global efforts in mobile and wireless technologies. Prior to his banking experience, he was a consultant for Accenture Consulting in its Technology practice. Before entering the workforce, Dain completed the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Engineering program and served as a U.S. Navy Submarine officer on a fast-attack submarine.

He serves as a board member for [Bugcrowd](/org/bugcrowd) and Stitch Labs and as a board observer for [ACME Technologies](/org/acme), [AlphaSense](/org/alphasense), Guardian Analytics, [PCH International](/org/pch-international), [Sojern](/org/sojern), [SnapLogic](/org/snaplogic) and TakeLessons.

He received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from [Stanford University](/org/stanford).

Dain serves as a Committee Member on the [Stanford University](/org/stanford) DAPER (Athletics Department) Investment Fund.

Dain DeGroff

Marie-Anne Neimat joined The Angels’ Forum as an Investor-in-Residence after retiring from Oracle Corporation. Her last position was Vice President of Development for three database products: Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, Oracle Berkeley Database, and Oracle NoSQL Database.

She was also co-founder, Vice President of Engineering, and Board Member of TimesTen Inc., which was acquired by Oracle in 2005.

Prior to starting her own company she had been at HP Labs and managed several research projects including an object-oriented database (IRIS, which later became the OpenODB product), an extensible database, and an in-memory database.

Marie-Anne was awarded her PhD in Computer Science from [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley) and has a BSC in Mathematics from [Stanford University](/org/stanford). She holds several patents, is a popular technical conference presenter, and the author of many publications in refereed conferences and journals.



Marie-Anne Neimat

As Vice President of Operations at [Aerospike](/org/aerospike), Meher Tendjoukian heads global operations and manages teams spanning three continents providing 24 x 7 x 365 support. Prior to [Aerospike](/org/aerospike), he was Sr. Director of Engineering at [Yahoo!](/org/yahoo) heading the engineering efforts for key mobile products at [Yahoo!](/org/yahoo) including mobile mail where its user base grew from a few million to over 50 million. In addition, Meher served as Software Engineer / Team Lead at [Liberate](/org/liberate) Technologies leading the efforts of installing and supporting [Liberate](/org/liberate)’s server suite at several European digital TV deployments. Meher graduated from “SUPAERO”, a world leader in aerospace engineering higher education (now ISAE-SUPAERO) in Toulouse, France.

Meher Tendjoukian

Lenley Hensarling is the Chief Strategy Officer of [Aerospike](/org/aerospike). Lenley has more than 30 years of experience in engineering management, product management, and operational management at both startups and large successful software companies. Lenley previously held executive positions at Novell, Enterworks, JD Edwards, EnterpriseDB, and Oracle. He has extensive experience in delivering value to customers and shareholders in both enterprise applications and infrastructure software. Lenley believes that business is now happening in real-time and that the right infrastructure for serving data to new real-time applications is a rapidly accelerating requirement for businesses to succeed.

Lenley Hensarling

Mark Watson

Kittu Kolluri joined NEA in 2006 as a General Partner, he focuses on information technology and energy technology investments. Kittu serves on several boards for NEA portfolio companies. Prior to NEA, Kittu was Executive VP and GM for the Security Products Group at [Juniper Networks](/org/juniper-networks), after NetScreen’s acquisition by Juniper in 2004. Kittu served briefly as GM of NetScreen’s Secure Access Products after NetScreen’s acquisition of Neoteris in 2003. Kittu was President and CEO of Neoteris, the leader of SSL-based Application Security Gateway market, where his leadership resulted in multiple corporate and product milestones. Kittu co-founded Healtheon/WebMD, and initially managed engineering before moving through key operational and general management roles, and eventually Senior VP and GM of Provider Services. Previously, Kittu worked at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) managing developer products and later high profile Interactive TV projects. Kittu earned a B.Tech. (M.E.) from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and an M.S. in Operations Research from SUNY, Buffalo, NY.

Kittu Kolluri

Manish Goel is the senior vice president and general manager of HP’s Storage organization, where he’s responsible for driving innovation in and growing the overall profitability of the multibillion dollar business.

Prior to joining HP, Goel served as the Chief Executive Officer at [Guavus](/org/guavus), a software firm providing Big Data analytics services to large-scale telecommunications companies. Goel’s almost 30 years of experience spans a broad range of industries and roles, including corporate strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business development, engineering development and management, sales and product strategy as well as particular expertise in the software and networking sectors.

Before acting as CEO at [Guavus](/org/guavus), Goel spent 12 years at the storage and data management firm [NetApp](/org/netapp), most recently holding the title of Executive Vice President of Product Operations. In that position, he was responsible for all product and technology strategy, development and delivery, with an operating budget of more than US $1 billion. His previous positions with [NetApp](/org/netapp) include Senior Vice President and General Manager of Software and Vice President Enterprise Accounts.

Goel holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a Master’s of Business Administration Degree from the Wharton School of Business at the [University of Pennsylvania](/org/university-of-pennsylvania). Goel, an avid golfer and a fluent Hindi speaker, sits on the board of Aerospike, Inc., and resides in the Bay Area.

Manish Goel

Agape brings 20+ years of progressive HR experience with startups and high growth companies. Prior to [Aerospike](/org/aerospike), Agape was Sr. Director of Human Resources at SI-BONE, Inc., where she helped grow the organization and built HR processes and programs from their Pre-IPO stage through their IPO in 2018. Agape is experienced in developing strong business relationships, people strategy, and driving HR initiatives.

Agape Eleftheriadis

Cliff has over 25 years of experience as a software engineer, engineering leader, and start-up co-founder in Silicon Valley. He has worked to develop and bring to market technology products such as interactive TV, cloud-based streaming applications, internet advertising platforms, AI-powered video analysis and computer vision products at companies including Yahoo!, Ditto, HiLytes, and ActiveVideo Networks. Cliff holds an MS and PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon, where he conducted research on real-time distributed operating systems.

Cliff Mercer

Srini V Srinivasan is a Founder and Chief Product Officer at [Aerospike](/org/aerospike). When it comes to databases, Srini Srinivasan is one of the recognized pioneers of Silicon Valley. He has two decades of experience designing, developing and operating high scale infrastructures. He also has over a dozen patents in database, web, mobile and distributed systems technologies. Srini co-founded [Aerospike](/org/aerospike) to solve the scaling problems he experienced with Oracle databases while he was Senior Director of Engineering at Yahoo. Srini has a B.Tech, Computer Science from [Indian Institute of Technology, Madras](/org/indian-institute-of-technology-madras) and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Srini V Srinivasan

Alan Cyron is the Chief Financial Officer for [Aerospike](/org/aerospike). Alan has over 25 years experience as CFO for various private and public companies including Engine Yard, Navis, [Axis Systems](/org/axis-systems), MobileAria and Paragon Trade Brands. Prior to becoming a CFO, he was a Managing Director in the corporate finance group at a predecessor of [JPMorgan Chase](/org/jpmorgan-chase) advising public and private companies. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member of [U.S. Bank](/org/u-s-bancorp) and Board Member of Salutron.

Alan Cyron

Jim LoDestro is a Silicon Valley veteran bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience to his role as Chief Revenue Officer at [Aerospike](/org/aerospike). In previous roles he held worldwide sales responsibilities at Arbor Software/Hyperion, Responsys, and more recently Janrain, where he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Jim received his B.A. in History from the [University of Rochester](/org/university-of-rochester), and an MBA in Finance from [Babson College](/org/babson-college).

Jim LoDestro

Subbu currently serves as President and CEO at Aerospike. Subbu has over 25 years of experience leading teams at many innovative enterprise technology companies. He is passionate about monetizing and scaling businesses to reach their full potential. Subbu has held executive leadership roles at several technology companies including Oracle, Veritas Software, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell EMC and Riverbed Technology.

Subbu Iyer

Erich Ringewald is Senior Vice President and Chief Enterprise Architect at [PayPal](/org/paypal). He has spent over 30 years leading engineering and development teams at early stage startups as well as large, publicly traded companies. Before joining [PayPal](/org/paypal), Erich was Senior Vice President of Enterprise Architecture, Web and Mobile engineering at [American Express](/org/american-express). He led engineering and development teams at Amazon, Apple, Be, Boku, and Accept.

Erich Ringewald

Tim Connor has 35 years experience working with high growth, technology driven companies. I’ve been on all sides of the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a venture capital investor, investment banker and operating executive with private and public companies.



Tim Connor

Gilman Louie is a partner of [Alsop Louie Partners](/org/alsop-louie-partners), a venture capital fund focused on helping entrepreneurs start companies. He is also the founder and first CEO of [In-Q-Tel](/org/in-q-tel), a private nonprofit venture capital firm that invests in private companies on behalf of a wide range of United States intelligence agencies. Before founding [In-Q-Tel](/org/in-q-tel), he ran a publicly traded company called Spectrum HoloByte which ultimately was acquired by Hasbro Corporation, where he served as chief creative officer of Hasbro Interactive and general manager of the Games.com. He serves as a member of the board of directors of the Markle Foundation and is chairman of the board of the [Federation of American Scientists](/org/federation-of-american-scientists). Gilman is also an advisor to the US intelligence community.

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