Allan Leinwand

Mr. Leinwand has more than 20 years of extensive experience in technology leadership and impressive roles including company founder, venture capitalist, and board member. He is currently SVP of Engineering at Slack Technologies, Inc. Prior to joining Slack, Mr. Leinwand was CTO at ServiceNow, Inc. during a period of exceptional growth, and also previously worked as CTO of Infrastructure at Zynga Inc., as a venture partner at Panorama Capital, and as an operating partner at JPMorgan Partners. He founded Vyatta, Inc., an open-source networking company acquired by Brocade Communications Systems.

Mr. Leinwand has a deep background in cloud computing, infrastructure- and platform-as-a-service and internet architecture. He is a sought-after advisor who previously has served on the boards of Marin Software and Affinity Internet. Mr. Leinwand has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.