Mark Smith

Mark joined TCV as a Venture Advisor in 2020, bringing more than 30 years of B2B tech sales experience. A seasoned operator, Mark led global sales teams to achieve achieving high growth outcomes, including 4 IPOs. The most recent IPO was Arista Networks (NYSE: ANET), where Mark served as SVP Global Sales and Business Development.

Prior to that, Mark ran global sales and business development for Infoblox (NYSE: BLOX), NetScreen (acquired by Juniper Networks), and NPI (acquired by FalconStor).

Mark has also served as a market advisor to software, infrastructure and cloud-focused companies that achieved notable outcomes, such as Avi Networks (acquired by VMware) and BigSwitch (acquired by Arista Networks).

Mark is a sought-after coach to both CEOs and sales leaders, helping them to develop sales strategies, teams, models and practices, which are instrumental to building high growth companies.