DataStax is the open, multi-cloud stack for modern data apps. DataStax gives enterprises the freedom of choice, simplicity, and true cloud economics to deploy massive data, delivered via APIs, powering rich interactions on multi-cloud, open source and Kubernetes.

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Clint Smith is currently the SVP of Corporate Development and General Counsel at [DataStax](/org/datastax). Prior to this, they served as a Board Member for Boku, Inc. from January 2015 to May 2018 and as a Board Member for the Software Alliance from January 2015 to December 2019. From May 2009 to November 2013, they were the Vice President, General Counsel, & Corporate Secretary at TrialPay, and from January 2006 to October 2008, they were the Vice President, Legal & Corporate Secretary at MySQL. Smith began their career as a lawyer at Macromedia, Inc. in September 2003, where they served as Vice President, Legal & Corporate Secretary from September 2003 to December 2005.

Clint Smith received their B.A. from [Pomona College](/org/pomona-college) in mass media and political behavior. Clint then attended the University of California, Berkeley, where they received their J.D. and M.A. in law and political science.

They are on a team with Harry Ault - CRO, David Waugh - SVP Market Development, and Thomas Been - Chief Marketing Officer. Clint Smith reports to Chet Kapoor, Chief Executive Officer.

Clint Smith

Harry Ault is currently the CRO at [DataStax](/org/datastax). Prior to their current position, they held various leadership roles at different companies. Most notably, they were the Vice President of Sales at Brocade from December 2008 to November 2017. In this role, they were responsible for the company's Server & Storage division. Harry successfully managed the complex integration of the Brocade acquisition with complete operational restructuring and scaling of go to market.

From November 2017 to November 2018, Harry Ault was the Vice President Server & Storage at Broadcom Inc. In this role, they were responsible for the WW team of sales, account management, business development, technical leadership, and OEM operations. The team's performance delivered $.5bn of incremental revenue above a $1.9bn annual operating plan.

Most recently, Harry Ault was the Chief Revenue Officer for [Elementum](/org/elementum) from January 2019 to February 2020. As Chief Revenue Officer, they led a team of sales, solutions, and strategic technical leaders that were all committed to helping customers automate and transform their supply chain with quick time to value.

Harry Ault has a MBA from the University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business, an AMP 187 from [Harvard Business School](/org/harvard-business-school), a BA from [Penn State University](/org/penn-state), and a European Economic Policy from The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

A direct report to Harry Ault is and Paul Oshan - VP Sales, Global Accounts. Harry Ault works with Chris Vogel - Chief People Officer, Jim McCollum - Cloud Engineering Lead, and Ed Anuff - Chief Product Officer. Harry Ault reports to Chet Kapoor, Chief Executive Officer.

Harry Ault

Eric Anderson is the Director at [DataStax](/org/datastax), a position they have held since 2013. Prior to that, they were with Dell KACE from 2010 to 2013, where they served as Technical Training Development Advisor/Technical Writer. In this role, Eric developed curriculum and assessment for technical training, and created the prototype materials for customer classroom 1-day training and remote online 2-5 day internal training for Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced use of Dell KACE's System Management and System Deployment Appliances, the K1000 and K2000. Eric also created hundreds of certification exam questions to certify internal employees.

Before their time at Dell KACE, Eric was a Math and Science Teacher at the San Jose Unified School District from 2005 to 2010, and an Adult Teacher at the Fremont School for Adults in the Sacramento City Unified School District from 2004 to 2005.

Eric holds a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley).

Eric Anderson has a B.A. in Chemistry from University of California, Santa Cruz, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from [The University of New Mexico](/org/the-university-of-new-mexico), and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Davis. Eric has also been certified as a User-Centered Design Module 1 by the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF), a Certified Cassandra 1.2 Developer by [DataStax](/org/datastax), a Certified Cassandra 1.1 Developer by [DataStax](/org/datastax), and a Certified MongoDB Developer by 10gen.

Eric Anderson

Ali Chaichy

Archana (Archie) Deskus has over 35 years of technology and executive leadership experience. Archie currently serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer for PayPal Holdings, Inc., overseeing PayPal’s global information technology operations. Prior to her current role, she has worked in several global organizations in the technology, energy, industrials, and consumer products industries holding CIO roles at Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Baker Hughes, Ingersoll-Rand, Timex Corporation and United Technologies Corporation. Archie currently serves on the board of directors of Cognizant (NASDAQ-100:CTSH), a multinational information technology services and consulting company. She is also on the board of directors of East West Bancorp, Inc. (NAQDAQ: EWBC), the holding company for East West Bank, the largest independent bank in Southern California.

Archie Deskus

Sandesh Patnam is the Managing Partner running both the private and listed equities investing practice at Premji Invest (PI) in the US. He joined PI to establish their US presence and drive their investment strategies in the US. PI is a multi-strategy crossover fund with over $11B in AUM. At PI he directs and manages investments in the Technology, Consumer, and Financials sectors. At PI, he led investments in Anaplan (SaaS Planning Solution, IPO, Ticker: PLAN), Zuora (SaaS Subscription Billing, IPO, Ticker: ZUO), Coupa (SaaS eProcurement, IPO, Ticker: COUP), Looker (BI Analytics, Acq. by GOOGL for $2.85B), Apttus (SaaS CPQ and CLM, Acq. by Thoma Bravo for $1.85B), ServiceMax (SaaS Field Service Automation, Acq. by GE for $1.0B), Outreach (SaaS Sales Enablement), Icertis (SaaS Contract Management), Heyday (E-commerce enablement), Signifyd (E-commerce Fraud), Sysdig (Container Security), and, DataStax (NoSQL database).

Further, Sandesh co-led investments in Cohesity (Enterprise Data Management), Stripe (E-Commerce Payments) and Innovium (Switch Fabric Silicon, Acq by MRVL for $1.2B) thru DFJ Growth.

Prior to Premji Invest, Sandesh was a Senior Equity Analyst and Investment Officer at the Seligman Technology Group at Ameriprise. At Seligman, Sandesh helped manage more than $15B in both long only and long/short investment vehicles while leading their software and IT infrastructure equity portfolios.

Prior to Seligman, Sandesh was a General Partner at Bay Partners and led the IT Infrastructure and SaaS practices. At Bay, he led investments in Akros Silicon (Power Management ICs), Code Green Networks (DLP Security Systems), Daptiv (SaaS Collaboration and Project Mgmt.), ParAccel (Data Warehousing systems, Acq. by Ingrian), LiveMedia (OOH digital advertising), Nanogram (next gen materials) and Enphase Energy (Micro-Inverters for Solar, IPO: ENPH). He was involved in the firm’s investments in Lending Club (Consumer Lending, IPO, Ticker: LC), Mulesoft (API platform, IPO, Ticker: MULE) and Guidewire Software (SaaS Insurance vertical, IPO, Ticker: GWRE).

Prior to Bay Partners, he was with TeleSoft Partners where led the systems and components investment practices. He co-led investments in Aarohi Communications (Acq. by Emulex), Amberwave Systems, Sierra Design Automation (Acq. by MENT), Validity Sensors (Acq. SYNA), Xambala and Xpedion Design Systems (Acq. by Agilent Technologies).

Before joining TeleSoft, he held both business and technical roles at Malleable Technologies, Silicon Graphics, Integrated Device Technologies and Cirrus Logic.

Sandesh Patnam

Ed Anuff has over 25 years experience as a product and technology leader at companies such as Google, Apigee, Six Apart, Vignette, [Epicentric](/org/epicentric), and [Wired](/org/wired).  He led products and strategy for the successful Apigee API Platform for the last 8 years, helping to make it the recognized category leader and led to the acquisition of Apigee by Google.  He was the founder of enterprise portal leader [Epicentric](/org/epicentric) which was acquired by Vignette. 

In the 90's, at [Wired](/org/wired), he launched one of the first Internet search engines, HotBot, as well as authored one of the first textbooks on the Java programming language.

Ed Anuff

A 25-year veteran of the Silicon Valley and Seattle technology scenes, Sam Ramji has helped build two multi-billion dollar markets (API Management at Apigee and Enterprise Service Bus at BEA Systems) and redefined Microsoft’s open source and Linux strategy from “extinguish” to “embrace”.

He is nerdy about open source, platform economics, middleware, and cloud computing with emphasis on developer experience and enterprise software. He is an advisor to multiple companies including [Accenture](/org/accenture), [Insight Engines](/org/insight-engines), and the Linux Foundation. Sam received his B.S. in Cognitive Science from UCSD in 1994 and is still excited about artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and cognitive psychology.

Sam Ramji

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Kathryn Kendell

Judith Sim has over 30 years of marketing and executive leadership experience. During Judith's tenure at Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), one of the largest global software providers known for database management systems, she served as Chief of Staff to the Office of the CEO and was Chief Marketing Officer from 2005 through 2020. Judith was responsible for global marketing, customer programs, sports marketing, brand and media communications for more than 15 years. She is currently on the Board of Directors at Fortinet Inc. (NASDAQ: FTNT), a provider of cybersecurity solutions, as the Chair of the Human Resources Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance and ESG Committees. She is also on the Board of Directors at First Advantage, a global provider of technology solutions for screening, verifications, safety and compliance related to human capital, as the Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of Audit Committee. Judith was also a member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce from 2015 to 2020. She earned a B.S. from the University of California Davis.

Judith Sim

Shankar Ramaswamy has spent over 25 years in engineering, building scalable and mission-critical user, business, and technology platforms at companies like Google, Apigee, Paypal, [eBay](/org/ebay), AWS, IBM, THBS, and Transarc. Shankar has received several academic and professional awards and has authored numerous research papers and patents. He received a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Shankar Ramaswamy

Jim leads Cloud Engineering at Datastax. He uses his leadership experience honed at organizations like Amazon, Lending Club, and GE, as well as incubator stage startups to grow and lead distributed, high-performance engineering teams, focused on delivering cloud-native products that delight uses.

Jim is a graduate of the Copenhagen University College of Engineering.



Jim McCollum

John Rae-Grant is VP of Developer Relations and Product Management at [DataStax](/org/datastax).  Prior to [DataStax](/org/datastax), John spent six years at Google as Lead Product Manager for Gmail, Google Play Services and Google Cloud's Developer Tools.  John started his career with ten years building and then leading Developer Tools (Visual C++) and Developer Relations (MSDN) at Microsoft.  Between the two, John alternated between talking the talk (consulting) and walking the walk (being an entrepreneur and internal leader) of software leadership, including taking a company from a startup through IPO as Co-Founder and CTO.  John brings a lifelong passion for empowering software developers and a Google-honed sense of scale to [DataStax](/org/datastax), and is excited to be enabling the coming wave of modern data apps.  John holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from [Yale University](/org/yale-university).



John Rae-Grant

Paul Oshan

Jose Morales is the Chief Revenue Office of Freshworks. Freshworks provides innovative customer and employee engagement solutions, including FreshDesk, FreshService, and FreshCRM and has 50,000 paying customers around the globe. He joined Freshworks from Atlassian, where he spent the last 10 years. At Atlassian he built and led the field operations organization which included direct and indirect sales, partner programs, services and other key GTM functions. The organization included teams supporting the self-serve business to field sales organizations closing seven figure deals in the global 2000. Jose joined Atlassian when they were sub $100M in revenue and helped grow them to over $1.8B. During that time he built teams in many countries including the US, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan, and the Philippines. In addition to field operations, Jose ran corporate development for 5 years completing many acquisitions, including HipChat, a product he ran for 2 years post acquisition. Prior to Atlassian, he held other go-to-market roles with leading Silicon Valley software companies.

Jose Morales

Holger is a managing director of GS Growth, [Goldman Sachs](/org/goldman-sachs)'s dedicated growth equity team. In that capacity, Holger invests in growing private companies in the technology sector. Prior to joining [Goldman Sachs](/org/goldman-sachs), Holger worked at Allen & Company. In addition to serving on [DataStax](/org/datastax)’s Board of Directors, Holger currently supports the management teams at [Acronis](/org/acronis), Callminer, deepwatch, [Egnyte](/org/egnyte), [Infinidat](/org/infinidat), [Innovid](/org/innovid), and [ON24](/org/on24). Holger holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from [Princeton University](/org/princeton).

Holger Staude

Paul Madera is a Managing Director of [Meritech Capital](/org/meritech-capital) Partners, a $3 Billion late stage venture capital firm that seeks to invest in emerging category leaders in technology and in medical devices.

Paul co-founded [Meritech Capital](/org/meritech-capital) in 1999 with two partners and he currently serves on the boards of [Filevine](/org/filevine), [ForgeRock](/org/forgerock), [Icertis](/org/icertis), and [Sonendo](/org/sonendo). He previously led [Meritech](/org/meritech) investments into Facebook, [Glaukos](/org/glaukos), Mulesoft, [Nextdoor](/org/nextdoor), [Salesforce](/org/salesforce), Yammer and several others.

Prior to founding [Meritech](/org/meritech), Paul was an investment banker with Montgomery Securities and with [Morgan Stanley](/org/morgan-stanley). He previously served in the US Air Force as an F-4 and F-16 pilot while based in South Korea, Spain and Utah.

Paul has a BS from the USAF Academy and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He continues to serve on the USAF Academy Endowment Board of Directors.

Paul Madera

Chris Vogel has more than 30 years of Silicon Valley-based leadership experience in sales engineering, IT, consulting, support, and customer success at companies including Google, Oracle, [BroadVision](/org/broadvision), BEA Systems, and Apigee. While at Apigee, Chris was an executive team member and helped lead the company through a successful 2015 IPO and 2016 acquisition by Google. Prior to [DataStax](/org/datastax), Chris led worldwide customer engineering for the Business Application Platform team in Google Cloud.

Chris has a successful track record of architecting and executing innovative and transformational go-to-market strategies and customer success engagement model, and a passion for company culture and people development. He earned a B.S. in Applied Math from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

Chris Vogel

Kenneth Taylor

Thomas has helped businesses transform with data and technology for more than 20 years, in sales and marketing leadership roles at Sybase (acquired by SAP), [TIBCO](/org/tibco), and [Druva](/org/druva). When he led marketing at [TIBCO](/org/tibco), Thomas grew the $1B+ company's awareness and increased the marketing team's contribution to revenue via targeted, engaging, and personalized digital experiences. At [Druva](/org/druva), he shaped the marketing team and strategy that established the company as the leader of SaaS data protection,

Thomas has a Master's Degree in Physics from Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis.



Thomas Been

Jim Baum

Kelly Battles

Eric Chin

Don brings over 20 years of industry experience leading technology companies in the Silicon Valley. Prior to joining [DataStax](/org/datastax), Don was most recently Chief Financial Officer at Skyhigh Networks, completing a successful sale of the company to McAfee. Prior to Skyhigh, Don served as Chief Financial Officer and later as Head of Operations at Apigee, overseeing Apigee’s successful Initial Public Offering. Prior to Apigee, Don served in varies finance and operations positions at BlueCoat Systems and BEA Systems. Don began his career at [KPMG](/org/kpmg) where he earned his CPA.

Don Dixon

Chet Kapoor is Chairman and CEO of [DataStax](/org/datastax). He is a proven leader and innovator in the tech industry with  more than 20 years in leadership at innovative software and cloud companies, including Google, IBM, BEA Systems, WebMethods, and NeXT. As Chairman and CEO of Apigee, he led company-wide initiatives to build Apigee into a leading technology provider for digital business. Google (Apigee) is the cross-cloud API management platform that operates in a multi- and hybrid-cloud world. Chet successfully took Apigee public before the company was acquired by Google in 2016. Chet earned his B.S. in engineering from [Arizona State University](/org/arizona-state-university).

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