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Jonathan Hunt is the Senior Vice President of Global Go-to-Market Strategy & Operations, Renewals & Sales Development at [Databricks](/org/databricks). Jonathan has held various positions at [Salesforce](/org/salesforce) from February 2021 to June 2021, including EVP, COO - Amer Distribution, SVP, COO - Amer Distribution, and SVP, COO - Commercial Business Unit. From March 2016 to January 2018, they served as the SVP of Sales Development. Jonathan was also the VP of COO-Social.com from June 2013 to May 2014 and the VP of Business Operations - Marketing Cloud from July 2012 to May 2013. Prior to their time at [Salesforce](/org/salesforce), Hunt worked as a Manager of M&A at Deloitte Consulting from September 2007 to February 2010.

Jonathan Hunt has a MBA in Strategy from the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business and a BA in Business Administration from Franklin & Marshall College.

Jonathan Hunt

Sarah Branfman is the Global VP, ISV, OEM, VAR Partner Sales at [Databricks](/org/databricks). Sarah has over twenty years of experience in sales and sales leadership roles. Prior to joining [Databricks](/org/databricks), Sarah was the Vice President, WW ISV, Cloud OEM, Tech, and Resell Partner Sales at [MongoDB](/org/mongodb). In this role, Sarah was responsible for building the business and scaling revenue with partners. 

Previously, Sarah was the Senior Director, Global ISV and OEM Sales at [MongoDB](/org/mongodb) where they helped ISVs sell more, develop faster, and de-risk deployments. Sarah also served as the Director, West Sales at [MongoDB](/org/mongodb). In this role, Sarah was responsible for leading a team of sales professionals and driving revenue growth in the Western region. 

Sarah has a proven track record of success in sales and sales leadership roles. Sarah is a strategic thinker with the ability to execute on their vision. Sarah is passionate about building relationships and developing partnerships that drive growth and success.

Sarah Branfman has a B.A. in Economics, Journalism and Mass Communication from [New York University](/org/nyu).

Sarah Branfman

Mike Alexandru

Shanku Niyogi is the Vice President of Product Management at [Databricks](/org/databricks). Shanku has over two decades of experience in product management and software development. Shanku has held senior positions at companies such as [GitHub](/org/github), Google, Chef Software, and Microsoft. Shanku was responsible for launching or commercializing several products, including Actions, Codespaces, and Copilot. At [Databricks](/org/databricks), Shanku is responsible for leading the product management team and growing engagement and revenue.

Shanku Niyogi graduated with a BMath (Honors) from the [University of Waterloo](/org/university-of-waterloo).

Some individuals on their team include Sumit Mehrotra - Director, Product, Vinay Wagh - Director, Product. Their manager is David Meyer, SVP, Products.

Shanku Niyogi

Teju Achar

Andy Konwinski is the Co-Founder & VP of Product Management at [Databricks](/org/databricks). Andy was previously a Research and Software Engineer Intern at Google from January 2011 to August 2011, where they researched Google's next-generation cluster scheduling system. Andy was also a Research and Software Engineer Intern at [Yahoo!](/org/yahoo) from June 2008 to August 2008, where they improved scheduling in Apache Hadoop. From September 2007 to February 2013, they were a Postdoc at [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley) in Computer Science. Andy also worked on Spark and the AMPLab BDAS stack. Andy was a Research Intern at [Los Alamos National Laboratory](/org/los-alamos-national-laboratory) from June 2007 to August 2007. Andy was also a Business Development and Software Engineer Intern at Epic from June 2006 to May 2007.

Andy Konwinski received their PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Andy also holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley), as well as a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Their manager is David Meyer, SVP, Products. Sumit Mehrotra - Director, Product, Vinay Wagh - Director, Product report to Andy Konwinski.

Andy Konwinski

Vinay Wagh is the Director of Product at Databricks. 

Before joining Databricks in 2018, Vinay was the Senior Director and Head of Products at Bracket Computing, where he was responsible for Data Guard, Network Guard and Server Guard. 

Vinay Wagh

Sumit Mehrotra is the Director of Product at Databricks. 

Before joining Databricks in 2019, Sumit was a Technical Product Manager at Facebook for Facebook Platform. 

Sumit Mehrotra

Michael Nickolas

Andy offers nearly three decades of experience building and transforming high-growth software and cloud businesses. As the President, Global Field Operations, Andy is responsible for all aspects of the Databricks customer journey, from brand awareness to renewals. Andy’s team includes worldwide sales, field engineering,  marketing, customer success, support, professional services, and alliances.

Prior to Databricks, Andy served as the President of North American Sales at Salesforce, a $12B+ business unit with 8,000+ employees. He also held executive positions as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Salesforce leading their B2C and Marketing Cloud businesses. Prior to that, he served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at ExactTarget. During his tenure, ExactTarget went public in 2012 on the NYSE and was acquired by Salesforce in 2013 for $2.6B. Before joining ExactTarget, Andy led an International Business while  serving as Vice President of EMEA, living in both London and Paris, at Dassault Systemes.  He also held other executive positions within the US. Preceding Dassault Systemes, Andy served in sales and sales management positions at Oracle Corporation and IBM.

Andy Kofoid

Elena Donio is a seasoned technology leader with a career spanning over 25 years as both an operating executive and board member. She is currently a board member, investor, and advisor to several technology companies.

Elena was CEO of Axiom, a leading global marketplace for on-demand corporate legal talent, from 2016 to 2020. During her tenure as CEO, she led the organization through a period of accelerating growth, investment in technology, an ambitious restructuring, and capital investment from Permira Funds.

Elena serves on the board of [Twilio](/org/twilio) (NYSE: TWLO), the leading cloud communications platform, where she was appointed as both director and compensation committee chair in 2016. She served on the board of compensation software provider [PayScale](/org/payscale) from 2014 to 2019 and on the board of King County Boys and Girls Clubs from 2009 to 2014.

Prior to joining Axiom as CEO, Elena served as president of [SAP Concur](/org/concur-technologies). Elena joined Concur in 1998 through the acquisition of start-up 7Software, and served in various leadership roles including the head of worldwide sales and marketing, head of product management, executive vice president and general manager of small and medium sized businesses. She helped lead the company through many transitions, including Concur’s acquisition by SAP in 2014; its transition from licensed, enterprise software to cloud-based solutions; from desktop computing to the mobile device; and from its dominant focus on large enterprise clients to small and mid-market organizations.

Elena started her career journey in technology with several years spent at both Andersen Consulting (Accenture) and [Deloitte](/org/deloitte) serving F100 clients across the globe. She earned her BA in Economics from the University of California, San Diego. Forever passionate about building a more diverse and inclusive technology industry, Elena enjoys mentoring the next generation of women leaders, advising, and investing in women-led startups. Elena lives in the Seattle area with her husband and three sons.

Elena Donio

Shasidhar E.S. is a Resident Solutions Engineer at [Databricks](/org/databricks). Previously, Shasidhar was a Senior Technical Solutions Engineer at the company. Prior to [Databricks](/org/databricks), Shasidhar was a Big Data Engineer at eMudhra Limited. Shasidhar holds a Bachelor's Degree from University B.D.T. College Of Engineering.

Shasidhar E.S.

Florent Moiny is a Senior Resident Solutions Engineer at [Databricks](/org/databricks). Prior to joining [Databricks](/org/databricks), Florent was a teaching assistant at Télécom Paris where they taught the fundamentals of Apache Spark. Florent also has experience working as a data scientist, and was the first member of the data team at Adot (formerly [Adotmob](/org/adotmob)). At Adot, Florent created and put into production a machine learning model that was capable of detecting users on different devices. Florent also created the SQL test used to interview data scientists and analysts. In their current role at [Databricks](/org/databricks), Florent is responsible for providing technical support and solutions engineering for [Databricks](/org/databricks) customers.

Florent Moiny has a Master of Science in Statistics from Pierre and Marie Curie University, a Master of Science in Probability Theory from Pierre and Marie Curie University, and a Master of Science in Probability and Finance from Pierre and Marie Curie University. Florent also has a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Pierre and Marie Curie University. In addition, they are certified by [Databricks](/org/databricks) as a [Databricks](/org/databricks) Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark 2.4, by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate, and by HashiCorp as a HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.

Florent Moiny

Ben Horowitz is a co–founder and general partner of the venture capital firm [Andreessen Horowitz](/org/andreessen-horowitz) and The New York Times bestselling author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things, which is now available in over 16 languages.

Prior to a16z, Ben was cofounder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2007 for $1.6 billion, and was appointed vice president and general manager of Business Technology Optimization for Software at HP. Earlier, he was vice president and general manager of America Online’s E-commerce Platform division, where he oversaw development of the company’s flagship Shop@AOL service. Previously, Ben ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications. He also served as vice president of Netscape’s widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line. Before joining Netscape in July 1995, he held various senior product marketing positions at Lotus Development Corporation.

Ben has an MS in Computer Science from UCLA and a BA in Computer Science from [Columbia University](/org/columbia-university).

Ben serves on the board of the following [Andreessen Horowitz](/org/andreessen-horowitz) portfolio companies: 21, [Capriza](/org/capriza), [Databricks](/org/databricks), [Foursquare](/org/foursquare), Genius, [Lyft](/org/lyft), [Magnet Systems](/org/magnet-systems), Medium, [NationBuilder](/org/nationbuilder), [Okta](/org/okta), SignalFX, [Tanium](/org/tanium), TransferWise, and [Usermind](/org/usermind). He is also on the board of [Columbia University](/org/columbia-university) and CODE2040.

Ben Horowitz

Jenna Kozel King is the Vice President of Corporate Marketing at [Databricks](/org/databricks). Jenna has over fifteen years of experience in marketing and communications, with a focus on the tech industry. Prior to joining [Databricks](/org/databricks), Jenna was the Vice President of Corporate Communications and Content Marketing at Okta, Inc., a leading identity and access management company. Jenna has also held positions at [Blue State Digital](/org/blue-state-digital) and [Edelman](/org/edelman), one of the world’s largest public relations firms.

Jenna Kozel King has a Bachelor’s Degree in International Affairs, French Language & Literature from The George Washington University and a Masters in Media & Public Affairs from The George Washington University.

Their manager is Rick Schultz, Chief Marketing Officer. They are on a team with and Kristalle Cooks - Head of Communications.

Jenna Kozel King

Michael J. Poulton is an account executive at [Databricks](/org/databricks), a leading data management and ML/AI company. Michael previously worked at Barking Made Films and Hortonworks, where they helped enterprise clients succeed with their IoT, machine learning, and cybersecurity strategies. Poulton is committed to driving innovation in open source communities and providing unique value to enterprise customers.

Michael J. Poulton has a certificate in business management and executive leadership from [Notre Dame College](/org/notre-dame-college). Michael also has a degree in business administration and management from Guildford College of Technology. Michael is also certified from the University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business in exec.

Michael J. Poulton

David Wyatt has been with [Databricks](/org/databricks) since August 2017, first as Vice President of EMEA and now as GM, EMEA. Prior to [Databricks](/org/databricks), David was with MuleSoft from March 2013 to August 2017 where they took the EMEA division from grass roots startup through to IPO and beyond. From July 2010 to March 2011, David was Sales Manager of Capital Markets with Oracle. From May 2008 to July 2010, David was EMEA Sales Director with EasyLink Services.

David Wyatt has an MBA in Leadership, Finance and Strategy from the [University of West London](/org/university-of-west-london), as well as a BSc Honors in Business Information Systems from the University of Leeds.

Their manager is Ron Gabrisko, Chief Revenue Officer. and Stephen Jennings - VP, North EMEA reports to David Wyatt.

David Wyatt

Carlos Castillo

Luis Saucedo

Naveen Zutshi is the CIO at [Databricks](/org/databricks). Naveen has previously served as a member of the board of advisors at [Zoom](/org/zoom) and Rubrik, Inc. During their time at [Palo Alto Networks](/org/palo-alto-networks), they were responsible for the strategy and execution of the company's global information technology. Naveen helped the company scale rapidly and expand in new security categories. Naveen also built a strong, innovative technology team and established a common data lake on GCP.

Naveen Zutshi has a BE in Computer Engineering from Bangalore University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Arkansas. Naveen also has certification from [Coursera](/org/coursera) in Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals, The Data Scientist’s Toolbox, An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python, and An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 1) & (Part 2). In addition, they are certified by the [Project Management Institute](/org/project-management-institute) as a Project Management Professional.

Naveen Zutshi reports to Ali Ghodsi, Co-Founder & CEO. They work with Fermín Serna - Chief Security Officer, Reynold Xin - Co‑Founder & Chief Architect, and David Cook - Chief Information Security Officer.

Naveen Zutshi

Josh Caplett

John Winkenbach is the Senior Vice President of Finance and Accounting at [Databricks](/org/databricks). John has over 20 years of experience in finance and accounting, including stints as the Chief Financial Officer of [Jobvite](/org/jobvite) and the Vice President of Finance and Administration of Technorati Media. Prior to that, they were a Senior Finance Manager at [Yahoo!](/org/yahoo) and a Sales Controller for North America and APAC at INKTOMI CORPORATION. John began their career as an auditor at PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS LLP.

John Winkenbach received their Bachelor of Science in Finance from [Santa Clara University](/org/santa-clara-university).

John Winkenbach reports to Dave Conte, CFO.

John Winkenbach

Karina  Banks

Amy Wang

Tim Garritty

Marilyn  Wagner

Mike Bielawski

Kevin Busch

Christina Do

Ron Berkovits

Ablelom Mahari

Donna Fernandez

Drew Polinski

Jeff Zook

Fidel Fernandez

Brian Steinberg

Dan Vanacore

Freja Albinsdotter Jonsson

Tom Pierce

Eric  Lehr

Russell Doloboff

Peter Steidl

Preeti Chandrashekar

Doug Wilhelm

Michael Poulton

David Rucker

Pete joined NEA in 2005 and is the head of the firm’s Enterprise practice group. Some of his current investments include Apprenda, [Conviva](/org/conviva), [Databricks](/org/databricks), [MapR Technologies](/org/mapr-technologies), Nginx, Pluribus and Tintri. Past exits include Pentaho (acquired by [Hitachi](/org/hitachi)), Teracent (acquired by Google) and Xensource (acquired by Citrix Systems).

Prior to NEA, Pete was Senior Director of Strategic Alliances at [VMware](/org/vmware) where he struck the company’s initial OEM deals and grew annual sales through OEMs from $0 to $40 million in four years. Pete ran product management at Mirapoint and worked in sales and marketing at Hewlett-Packard, including Worldwide Product Manager for the mid-range server business. Pete began his career at Montgomery Securities in the Technology Corporate Finance group. Pete received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at [Northwestern University](/org/northwestern-university), and his BA in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley.

Pete Sonsini

Ion Stoica is the Executive Chairman and co–founder of [Databricks](/org/databricks). Ion also serves as a professor in the EECS Department at [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley), and as a co-director of the [AMPLab](/org/amplab). At [AMPLab](/org/amplab) Ion has been leading the software systems effort, which included the development of the Spark research project, as well as two other high profile open source projects: Apache Mesos and Tachyon. In 2006, he co-founded Conviva, a startup to commercialize technologies for large scale video distribution, where he is serving as a CTO. Ion is an ACM Fellow and has received numerous awards, including the SIGCOMM Test of Time Award (2011), and the ACM doctoral dissertation award (2001). Ion holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.S. in Computer Science and Control Engineering from Polytechnic University Bucharest.

Ion Stoica

Hatim brings more than 14 years of experience building enterprise software products to [Databricks](/org/databricks). Most recently, he served as CCO & SVP of Tech Ops for AppDynamics where he ran all the customer facing and technology functions for the company. Hatim joined AppDynamics as one of the first 10 employees and was instrumental in helping the company grow from a handful of customers to a market leader worth $3.7B. Prior to AppDynamics, Hatim held several development and QA leadership positions with CA Wily and other companies working on Java / J2EE products. Hatim holds a Masters in Computer Science from [University of Southern California](/org/university-of-southern-california).

Hatim Shafique

Ali is the CEO and co–founder of [Databricks](/org/databricks), responsible for the growth and international​ ​expansion of the company. He previously served as the VP of Engineering and Product​ ​Management before taking the role of CEO in January 2016. In addition to his work at [Databricks](/org/databricks), Ali serves as an adjunct professor at [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley) and is on the board at [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley)’s RiseLab. Ali was one of the creators of open source project, Apache Spark, and ideas from his academic research in the areas of resource management and scheduling and data caching have been applied to Apache Mesos​ ​and Apache Hadoop.​ ​​Ali​ ​received his MBA from Mid-Sweden University in 2003 and PhD from KTH/Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden​ in 2006​ in the area of​ ​Distributed Computing.

Ali Ghodsi

At [Databricks](/org/databricks), Ron is responsible for managing the worldwide sales organization and go-to-market strategy. Most recently he served as Senior Vice President of Sales for [Axway](/org/axway) Software. During his leadership there, Ron built and led the sales team from early stage to a successful IPO. Prior to [Axway](/org/axway), Ron was responsible for sales, business development, and marketing for Cyclone, a [Trinity Ventures](/org/trinity-ventures) backed company. Ron holds an MBA and Masters in Engineering from [Stanford University](/org/stanford). He also has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from [Purdue University](/org/purdue-university) where he played baseball and was awarded the Big Ten Medal of Honor.

Ron Gabrisko

Trâm Phi leads the legal function at [Databricks](/org/databricks), offering decades of legal, regulatory, and public policy experience to the leadership team. Prior to [Databricks](/org/databricks), Trâm served in a variety of executive roles, most recently as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at [DocuSign](/org/docusign) and prior to that, as Chief Legal Officer and Chief of Staff at Imperva, Inc., a provider of cyber security software and services. Trâm also served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of ArcSight, Inc., a provider of enterprise threat and risk management solutions, until the acquisition of ArcSight by Hewlett-Packard Company in October 2010, and then as general counsel of HP Software, Security. Earlier in her career, Trâm served as the senior legal executive at [InVision](/org/invision) Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer of explosives detection systems, most recently as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, including following the acquisition of [InVision](/org/invision) by General Electric Company in December 2004.

Trâm Phi

Chad Troline

John Lerma

Michael Sullivan

Dillon Gibson

Melissa Trauger

Steve Phillips

Colt Hubbartt

Scott Nieters

Jodie Yao

Padraic O'Connor

Justin Zumbano

Reynold oversees technical contributions to Apache® Spark™ at [Databricks](/org/databricks), initiating efforts such as DataFrames and Project Tungsten. To demonstrate Spark’s scalability and performance, he lead the efforts in the 2014 Daytona GraySort contest and set the 2014 world record, beating the previous record held by Hadoop with 30X higher per-node efficiency. Prior to [Databricks](/org/databricks), he was a PhD student at the UC Berkeley AMPLab, where he focused on scalable data processing. He wrote the highest cited papers in SIGMOD 2011, 2013, and 2015, and won Best Demo Award at VLDB 2011 and SIGMOD 2012.

Reynold Xin

Erik Abbott

Jeff Winn

Leah Schmidt

David McMullin

David Meyer joined Databricks in 2017 as SVP Products. He leads the company’s product organization, spanning product management, user experience and documentation. He previously served as VP of Engineering, then VP of Product Management at [OneLogin](/org/onelogin), where he grew the company through Series B and Series C funding growth to the thousands of customers and market leadership it enjoys today. Before his work at [OneLogin](/org/onelogin), he cofounded UniversityNow, an accredited open university system, running Product, Engineering and UX. Prior to that, David managed a $1 billion portfolio of business intelligence products at SAP and co-led cloud strategy. His first software journey was at Plumtree, where he ran engineering, CS, and product management, going public before being acquired by BEA in 2005. He holds an MSE from UW and a BSE from Penn.

David Meyer

Prior to joining [Databricks](/org/databricks), Arsalan was an Associate Principal at McKinsey and Company, where he advised enterprises, vendors, and the public sector on a broad spectrum of strategic topics, including next-generation IT, cloud computing, and big initiatives as well as general IT and corporate strategy. Arsalan received a PhD in computer science from [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley) in the area of Networking and Distributed Systems and a B.Eng from the [University of Virginia](/org/university-of-virginia).

Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji

Rick Schultz joined [Databricks](/org/databricks) in 2017 as Chief Marketing Officer. He leads the company’s worldwide marketing efforts, spanning product marketing, demand generation, branding and creative, global communications, events and field marketing as well as community evangelism. He previously served as Senior Vice President of Marketing for [Alteryx](/org/alteryx), helping fuel its growth from early stage (Series A) to pre-IPO and from 100 customers to over 2,200. Rick also ran technology product marketing for Oracle from 2008 to 2012, leading the positioning, content and demand generation strategies for a broad, $6 billion portfolio of database, analytics, security and management products. He holds a BS in Finance from [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley)’s Haas School of Business.

Rick Schultz

Conte has 30 years of finance and administration experience in multi-national public and private companies within the technology industry. Conte was [Splunk](/org/splunk)’s CFO for the last eight years, where he took the company public and helped it grow from $100 million in annual revenue to more than $2 billion annually as the market leader in operational intelligence and security information management. Prior to [Splunk](/org/splunk), he was the CFO at Opsware, an IT automation software company that was acquired by HP for $1.65 billion. Conte has also served as a member of the board of directors at [Anaplan](/org/anaplan) since 2016.

Dave Conte

Matei Zaharia is the Chief Technical Officer and co–founder of [Databricks](/org/databricks). Matei started the Spark project at [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley) and serves as its Vice President at the Apache Foundation. He also serves as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford. Throughout his career, Matei has contributed to several other widely used open source projects, including Apache Mesos and Tachyon, which he co-started, Apache Hadoop, and key components of Spark such as MLlib, Spark Streaming and Spark SQL. He was awarded the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2014 for his research on large-scale computer systems, and Best Paper awards at NSDI and SIGCOMM. Matei holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley) and a B.Math from the [University of Waterloo](/org/university-of-waterloo).

Matei Zaharia

Lexi Clark

Shiaodo

Justin Santilli

Grace Chuang

Hasung Ahn

Jonathan DeVito

Fermín Serna is the Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Databricks. He was previously the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Citrix. Prior to this, Fermín was the CSO for Semmle (acquired by GitHub) and served as the Head of Product Security at Google for almost eight years where he built, ran and oversaw the application security program for Google products. Fermín has also worked at Microsoft with the MSRC Engineering team where he envisioned and built the industry-recognized EMET tool. Additionally, Fermín served as CTO and co-founder of NGSEC and S21SEC in Spain.

Fermín Serna

Mike Anderson

Douglas Wilhelm

Jason Kim

Vinod Marur

Adam Conway

Freja Abinsdotter

Jonathan Chadwick has over 30 years of experience both in the US and the UK and has lived in Silicon Valley for over 25 years. He has worked for some of the most significant technology companies and has a broad background in strategy, mergers and acquisitions, operational and financial management and has extensive team leadership experience.

He is currently a board member and advisor to a number of public and private companies.

He is the Chair of the Audit Committees of ServiceNow, Inc. the Enterprise Cloud Company (NYSE: NOW; since 2016); of Zoom Video Communications, Inc., the provider of video-first unified communications (Nasdaq: ZM; since 2017); and of Elastic, Inc, the enterprise search company (NYSE: ESTC; since 2018). Jonathan previously served on the boards of Cognizant Technology Solutions Inc., the $15bn IT, business process and consulting company, (Nasdaq: CTSH) between 2016 and 2019, F5 Networks, Inc (Nasdaq:FFIV) between 2011 and March, 2019, and of AppDynamics in 2017.

He also serves on the boards of a number of private companies. In 2018 he represented 4 of the top 10 companies listed in Forbes’ Cloud 100. In addition, he is an advisor to, and investor in, a number of other early stage, private companies.

He is the former Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of [VMware](/org/vmware), the leader in data center virtualization solutions and cloud management. [VMware](/org/vmware) employed 19,000 people in over 110 offices worldwide and enjoyed annual revenues of $7 billion when he was COO. His organizational responsibilities at [VMware](/org/vmware) spanned Operations, Finance and Information Technology. He was employed by [VMware](/org/vmware) between 2012 and 2016.

Previously, he had been Chief Financial Officer of Skype, a provider of Internet-based voice and video communication, since March 2011, and a Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Corporation since its acquisition of Skype in October 2011. Jonathan joined Skype from McAfee, an antivirus software and computer security company, where he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, prior to its acquisition by Intel Corporation. In this role he oversaw Finance, IT and Manufacturing.

From 1997 to 2010, he held various leadership roles at Cisco Systems, the leading networking equipment company, including Senior Vice President, CFO – Global Customer Markets, Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, and Vice President of Corporate Finance and Planning. When he left Cisco in 2010, the company employed over 70,000 people and had annual sales of over $40 billion.

Jonathan previously spent almost a decade in public accounting, most recently working for Coopers & Lybrand.

Jonathan qualified as a Chartered Accountant in England and holds an honors degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Bath, UK.  He lives with his wife and two children in California.

Jonathan Chadwick

Patrick is a founding Committer and PMC member of Apache Spark. Patrick has acted as release manager within the Spark project for several releases, in addition to maintaining several subsystems of Spark’s core engine. At [Databricks](/org/databricks), Patrick directs the company’s engineering efforts. Patrick holds an M.S. in Computer Science at [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley), where his research focused on low latency scheduling for large scale analytics workloads. He holds a B.S.E in Computer Science from [Princeton University](/org/princeton).

Patrick Wendell

Stephen Jennings

Alex Purkiss

Kristalle Cooks

Prior to joining [Databricks](/org/databricks), Reichanadter served as Chief People Officer for [Adaptive Insights](/org/adaptive-insights), a business planning SaaS solution, where she led the company’s global human resources efforts for five years and then supported integration efforts for the first year after it was acquired by [Workday](/org/workday). Preceding this, Reichanadter was the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at [E2open](/org/e2open), an intelligent supply chain provider, for nearly nine years.

Amy Reichanadter

Scott Shenker is a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley). He is also the chief scientist and the leader of the New Initiatives Group at ICSI, where he was a founding member of the ICSI Center for Internet Research. He received his doctorate in physics in 1983 from the University of Chicago, and was later awarded an honorary doctorate from the same university in recognition of his contributions to Internet architecture. He has received both the SIGCOMM and IEEE Internet awards. Along with Martin Casado and Nick McKeown, he has been a leader in the movement toward Software-Defined Networking. In terms of commercial activities, he was co-founder (with Casado and McKeown), founding CEO, and chief scientist of Nicira.

Scott Shenker

David is the chief information security officer (CISO) for [Databricks](/org/databricks). He is responsible for the security vision, strategy, and compliance programs to ensure customer and corporate information assets and technologies are protected. David has more than 15 years of security experience. Prior to [Databricks](/org/databricks) he served as the chief security officer (CSO) for Jive Software, where he was responsible for Jive’s corporate and product security. In addition to be being Jive’s CSO, David ran technical operations for Jive’s Cloud platform. David has held director of security roles at Blue Coat Systems and Jasper Wireless, where he was in charge of the organizations’ corporate and product security programs.

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