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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the IT Infrastructure space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Sudhakar Ramakrishna
President, CEO & Board Director of SolarWinds
Sudhakar Ramakrishna was appointed to the Mitel® board of directors on May 14, 2015. He is CEO and Board Member for Pulse Secure, where he oversees all aspects of business strategy and execution since July of 2015. Sudhakar brings nearly 25 years of experience across the cloud, mobility, networking, security and collaboration markets. Sudhakar was President of Products and Services, for Polycom, the global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC) solutions for telepresence, video, and voice. He is responsible for defining and delivering best in class unified communication products and solutions and driving revenue growth and profitability. Sudhakar joined Polycom in 2010 as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Unified Communications Solutions, and Chief Development Officer. He was promoted to Executive Vice President in February 2011. Sudhakar brings a wealth of strategy and execution experience to Polycom. Before Polycom, Sudhakar was Corporate VP and GM for Wireless Broadband Access Solutions and Software Operations at Motorola. Sudhakar was instrumental in scaling the 4G (WiMAX and LTE) and Software business, and led large multi-function teams of more than 2300 employees, and businesses across the globe. Previously, Sudhakar held senior management roles at Stoke Networks, 3Com, U.S. Robotics and other companies. Sudhakar has extensive experience working with enterprise and carrier/operator customers. His areas of technology focus include wireless, MoIP/IP telephony, data networking, security, and IP convergence-related technologies and services. Sudhakar has significant experience in organization development, strategic planning and execution, incubating and scaling new businesses, and was involved in strategic partnerships with Huawei, Siemens, and several mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. He earned his Master’s degree in Computer Science from Kansas State, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Sudhakar holds and has filed several patents in the areas of IP telephony, soft switching and load balancing. Sudhakar is also a member of the board of directors at Tely Labs.
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About Benhamou Global Ventures, SolarWinds, Zeus: SolarWinds develops a technology that manages IT infrastructures.
Sujai Hajela
Co-founder, President & CEO of Mist Systems
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About Mist Systems: Mist built a wireless platform for the Smart Device era that delivers intelligent wireless network products that leverage machine learning.
Gaurav Rewari
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Numerify
Gaurav is a co-founder and CEO of Numerify. Most recently, Gaurav was Vice President of Product Management and Strategy at Oracle of a $2.5 billion Business Analytics business that included the Hyperion, Oracle BI and Siebel Analytics product lines. During his tenure, his team furthered Oracle’s industry leading position in analytics, and measurably advanced its BI Platform market share through the acquisition of Endeca and the introduction of the Exalytics in-memory Analytics machine, a product with one of the fastest ramps in Oracle’s history. Gaurav started his career as the first product manager at MicroStrategy where he rose to become VP/GM with responsibility for MicroStrategy’s Product Management, Professional Services & Analytical Applications divisions. He was part of a management team that grew MicroStrategy from single digit millions in revenue through its IPO and into a $200M+ BI products leader. Before Oracle, Gaurav was co-founder & CEO of FirstRain, a venture-backed leader in SaaS search-based market intelligence. Outside Numerify, Gaurav enjoys going on nature treks in the San Francisco bay area with his wife and children. Gaurav holds BS, MS & EE degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received the Tau Beta Pi prize for Engineering Excellence, the Robert A. Boit prize in Humanities and was nominated to the Sigma Xi Scientific Honor Society.
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About Numerify: AI-powered IT business analytics for the Global 2000
Phil Tee
Co-Founder, Chairman, CEO and Herd Leader of Moogsoft
Phil Tee is Chairman and CEO of Moogsoft. He made an indelible mark in information technology by co-founding Omnibus Transport Technologies Limited (OTT) in 1993 to build and market Netcool/Omnibus. OTT was folded into Micromuse (Nasdaq: MUSE) in 1994 and Netcool/Omnibus became the company’s flagship product. This technology continues to be the in the core of the management support systems in the world’s largest networks in the form of IBM Tivoli Netcool. In 1997, Phil founded Riversoft (LSE: RSFT) to solve the problem of root cause analysis; the technology acquired by Micromuse and the software subsequently became part of the IBM Tivoli Netcool suite. Phil then went on to lead Njini, producing a revolutionary and early data and storage software layer with data de-duplication and information lifecycle management (ILM) capabilities. The company’s technology was acquired by Riverbed (Nasdaq:RVBD). In 2008, Phil founded Promethyan to gestate multiple startups concurrently. Two Promethyan children of note include Prelert and RiverMuse.
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About Moogsoft: Moogsoft is a provider of AIOps solutions that help IT teams work faster and smarter.
Yvonne Wassenaar
CEO of Puppet
Yvonne Wassenaar is the CEO of Puppet, a trusted enterprise provider of pervasive automation across traditional and cloud-native environments. She has more than 25 years of experience scaling companies globally and driving enterprise transformation with technology. Prior to Puppet, Yvonne served as CEO of Airware, CIO at New Relic, and held multiple leadership roles at VMware and Accenture. She is currently a board member of Forrester (FORR) and Harvey Mudd College. Amidst growing concerns with how modern technology could be used, Yvonne is championing it to drive a safer, more efficient and innovative planet.
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About Puppet: Puppet is an information technology automation software company designed for system administrators.
DeVaris Brown
Co-founder, CEO of Meroxa
DeVaris Brown is the CEO and co-founder of Meroxa. Prior to founding Meroxa, DeVaris was a product leader at Twitter, Heroku, VSCO, and Zendesk.
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About Meroxa: Meroxa is a real-time data platform as a service that enables customers at any level of expertise to build pipelines in minutes.
Arun Agarwal
Co-founder, CEO of Infinio
Co-Founder & CEO. Originally a midwest native, Arun has since lived in Cambridge within the same 1.5 mile radius for almost 11 years — including both college and graduate school. Arun has been interested in technology startups since he started his first company in high school (a complete failure), three more in college, and finally through his stint as a senior manager at Endeca Technologies and as a venture capitalist with several of Infinio’s investors. When he’s not at the office, Arun likes to spend time with his lovely wife Arushi, and attempting to avoid ice patches while skiing in Vermont & Maine.
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About Infinio: Infinio provides downloadable storage performance solutions for virtual environments.
Sebastian Stadil
Founder, CEO of Scalr
Sebastian has been a Cloud developer since 2004, starting with web services for e-commerce and then for computational resources. He founded the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group, a user group of over 5000 members that meets monthly to present the latest developments in the industry. Recently, Sebastian founded Scalr, a software-project-turned-startup that scales website infrastructure automagically. When he is not working on Scalr, Sebastian likes to make sushi and play rugby.
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About Scalr: Scalr is a cloud management platform that empowers enterprises to deliver and consume cloud in a secure and cost-efficient manner.
Jack Naglieri
CEO, Founder of Panther Labs
Jack Naglieri is a professional with a passion for information security, cloud infrastructure, and security software. His exposure in security began as an incident responder for Verisign. After graduation from George Mason University, he moved to the San Francisco Bay area and spent two years at Yahoo as an incident responder. He later transitioned into a security engineering role, with the challenge of deploying security monitoring tools at massive scale. In 2016, he joined Airbnb, and open sourced a framework that enables real-time data analysis and alerting at scale called StreamAlert. He managed a team of engineers further developing detection and response infrastructure at Airbnb. Now, he has left to start his own company, Panther Labs, to help companies stay secure in the cloud-first world.
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About Panther Labs: Panther Labs is a cloud-scale security analytics company that develops infrastructure security and compliance platform.
Joel Andren
Co-Founder, CEO of PressFriendly
Joel Andren grew up wanting to be a reporter for the New York Times and was editor of his college newspaper. He was finally dissuaded from being a reporter by writing more than 100 obituaries during a stint as a summer intern at the Times-Herald in Norristown, PA. After receiving an MA in Communication with a PR focus, Joel worked at the third-largest PR firm in Seattle. Joel has worked at numerous early-stage startups and was a co-founder at Bitcasa. Most recently, Joel was Head of Marketing for YCombinator company HelloSign, where he worked with his current co-founder, Paul Denya.
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About PressFriendly, Protypical: PressFriendly is a startup intent on helping other startups get press.
Sam Nagar
Co-founder & CEO of Pixeom
Sam Nagar has led the company and its solutions to become the market-leading Edge computing software platform, both by number of deployments and revenue. A visionary entrepreneur and technologist, throughout his career Sam has focused on key growth areas including Edge computing, cloud, IoT, operating systems, virtualization, and distributed computing and is now the youngest CEO in the Edge computing world.
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About Pixeom: Pixeom is the market leading software-defined edge computing platform.
Sam Nagar
Co-founder & CEO of Pixeom
Sam Nagar has led the company and its solutions to become the market-leading Edge computing software platform, both by number of deployments and revenue. A visionary entrepreneur and technologist, throughout his career Sam has focused on key growth areas including Edge computing, cloud, IoT, operating systems, virtualization, and distributed computing and is now the youngest CEO in the Edge computing world.
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About Pixeom: Pixeom is the market leading software-defined edge computing platform.
Scott Wiebe
Chief Executive Officer of Cumulus Systems
Scott Wiebe has spent more than 22 years in various accounting, finance, management and operational roles. For the past 3 years, Scott has been CFO of Cumulus Systems and was recently promoted to CEO. Prior to Cumulus Systems, Scott spent 6 years at Cooliris. Cooliris was backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, The Westly Group, and Deutsche Telekom, and was eventually acquired by Yahoo!. Prior to Cooliris, Scott spent 13 years in venture banking, most of the time with Silicon Valley Bank. At Silicon Valley Bank, Scott managed various portfolios for technology-based companies. Scott also spent time at Wells Fargo Bank in the Palo Alto Technology Group as a VP Business Development Officer. During Scott’s 22 year career, he has also been a financial and operational consultant to companies such as URX (acquired by Pinterest), Inkiru (acquired by Walmart.com) and other such technology-based companies. Scott received his MBA from Santa Clara University in 2000. Scott completed his undergraduate work at San Jose State University on a Division I Men’s Soccer scholarship, where he was a starter for the team all four years. For the past 6 years, Scott has been the volunteer Head Coach of the JBL Adaptive Sports Program, which is a Sunday morning sports program designed to meet the needs of children with physical and/or metal disabilities.
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About Cumulus Systems: Cumulus Systems has developed a performance management and analytics platform from the ground-up to excel in precisely such environments.
Patrick Kirchhoff
Co-Founder and CEO of Replex
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About Replex: Replex provides software solutions.
Randy Wonzer
CEO of Silverback Data Center Solutions
Accomplished strategic sales and services leader delivering business outcomes through leveraging the incredible expansion in big data capabilities and technologies. Continuing Team Silverback’s flawless record of performance is my primary focus. After all, every data center migration is mission-critical. I love what I do. Please visit us at www.teamsilverback.com. Randy brings over 20 years of experience in the enterprise software industry with consulting sales and execution leadership roles. Over this period he provided program expertise and leadership to various Fortune 500 global enterprises, in a variety of industries including high tech, discrete manufacturing, and oil and gas. With management experience at both emerging and large software companies, Randy brings a unique blend of leadership expertise. Randy holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Michigan-Flint and an M.B.A from Santa Clara University.
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About Silverback Data Center Solutions: An IT professional services firm focused on migration, deployment, staffing and services for Data Center and Digital Infrastructure.
James Boone
Founder, President & CEO of Fluent Edgeworks
James leads the corporate direction and strategy for Fluent, focused on delivering and sustaining the innovative and powerful value proposition Fluent provides to our clients. He is a proven leader with expertise in building new companies and developing strong client relationships, a passion for creating client-focused service cultures and extraordinary service delivery teams, and a disciplined drive for perfectionistic execution. With over 25 years of experience in technology and telecom, James brings proven leadership and a wealth of expertise in developing advanced technological business solutions and delivering superior customer experiences for enterprise clients. Prior to founding Fluent, he spent more than seven years helping to build Masergy Communications into the industry-leading, global MPLS service provider. Previously, James held strategic positions at Jamcracker (Cloud computing platform pioneer), Rhythms NetConnections (DSL pioneer), Xyplex, Shiva Corporation, and AirSoft.
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About Fluent Edgeworks: Fluent Edgeworks specializes in the design, sourcing, and program management of cloud infrastructure solutions.
Daniel Riedel
CEO of New Context
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About New Context: New Context is a provider of multi-cloud DevSecOps services to large enterprise, infrastructure and government cloud customers.
Yuriy Petushkov
Chief Executive Officer of Baynetwork Inc.
Yuriy Petushkov is Chief Executive Officer at Baynetwork.
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About Baynetwork Inc.: Baynetwork Inc is Managed IT Service Provider and Complete IT Solutions company in San Francisco Bay area in business since 2008.
Pamela Sun
Founder, President & CEO of AVANU
Pamela founded AVANU, bringing her broad management background of technical sales, channel sales, technical support, and operations management from both the private and public sector of the computer industry. She carries forth her vast experience in management along with past business development in the corporate, government, and channel sales to AVANU along with her keen sense of customer-centric providing service with honesty, high integrity and professionalism. Starting with niche Unix offerings, Pamela has made common-sense technology practices and requirements the foundation of the company. Network optimization technologies along with the evolution in the industry are the changes she seeks starting with the popular and well-established WebMux load balancing products acquisition from CAI Networks in 2012.
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About AVANU: A leading developer of high valued products for the IT infrastructure and data center environments that are cost-effective, full-featured.
Michael Lauth
CO-Founder,President & CEO of iXsystems
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About iXsystems: iXsystems provides open source technology for core IT business infrastructure.
Jim Nolte
CEO of Bandwidth IG
Jim Nolte currently works as the CEO for Bandwidth IG.
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About Bandwidth IG: Bandwidth IG provides mission-critical data centers, hyper scalers, and enterprises with high capacity, strategic dark fiber networks.
