Board of Directors

Kirk Bowman

Venture Partner, Accel Partners

Mr. Bowman has more than 20 years of senior executive experience in leading high technology companies such as Equallogic and VMware.

His leadership as executive vice president at Equallogic led to an acquisition of the company by Dell for $1.4 billion in 2008. Prior to Equallogic, Bowman was chief operating officer of Model N and executive vice president of worldwide field operations of VMware. He has also held executive positions at Inktomi, eXcelon and Parametric Technology.

Bowman is currently a director of private companies Coverity, PanoLogic, Zetta, Nimble Storage and Librato.

Jeff Miller

Board Member

Jeff Miller is an accomplished senior executive and venture capitalist with over 30 years of experience working with some of the hottest software companies in Silicon Valley.

From 1993 to 2001, he served as president and chief executive officer of Documentum, one of the fastest growing technology companies in the world. Following the sale of Documentum to EMC for $1.8B in 2003, he was a venture partner with Redpoint Ventures, where he specialized in emerging enterprise and infrastructure software markets. Miller has also held senior executive positions at Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel, Adaptec, and Cadence Design Systems.

Miller currently runs JAMM Ventures, a business consulting firm, which he founded, and serves on various company and non-profit Boards.

Ellen Pao

Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

Ellen Pao joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2005. Her primary areas of focus are consumer and enterprise application and services platforms. She believes cloud infrastructure, ad and application platforms, and iterative development are enabling new levels of innovation. She also worked closely with KPCB China as a founding member of its investment committee. She is a director on the boards of Lehigh Technologies and Flipboard, Inc.

Prior to KPCB, Ellen held various operating roles at BEA Systems, including head of business development for products, site manager for new mobile products, and lead for new engineering efforts in India. She also served in corporate development, leading strategic projects for the CEO and M&A transactions. Prior to BEA, Ellen focused on business development and closed technology licensing deals for Tellme Networks as one of its first 20 employees and for Microsoft's WebTV division. She also served as a consultant at MyCFO and at Danger Research, where she headed the Sidekick's first marketing requirements efforts.

Before entering the tech field, Ellen was a corporate attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore in both its New York City and Hong Kong offices, working on deals across the Philippines, Singapore and Greater China. She provided guidance on high-yield debt offerings, M&A transactions, aircraft financings, and pro bono projects for Habitat for Humanity and Covenant House.

Ellen holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a certificate from the Wilson School of Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She also serves on the board of the Apollo Alliance and is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Shawn Price

President, Zuora

Shawn Price is currently Zuora's President and a member of its Board of Directors. He is responsible for the company's strategic direction and operations.

Prior to Zuora, Price helped early-stage growth companies in enterprise tech, SaaS, Cloud and consumer successfully transform themselves to IPO and successful acquisitions. Some of Price's roles include EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence) at Battery Ventures and providing strategy, operations, finance and M&A expertise to companies like Clairmail, a leading mobile banking platform.

Price was also CEO, President and Chairman of the Board at Savvion, the global leader in business process management where he led strategic and operational functions of the company and achieved over 100% growth, recognition as one of the Deloitte Fast 50 and launched international operations with operating subsidiaries in India.

Before Savvion, Price was Senior Vice President and General Manager Americas at Vitria where he was part of the initial team helping drive the company from zero to $135 million in revenues, overseeing more than 75% of the company's revenues, and guiding the company to one of the most successful IPO of 1999 resulting in a $10 billion market cap.

Shawn is a Charter Member of the C100, a Silicon Valley non-profit organization for Canadian entrepreneurs, and also speaks at various industry events such as MIT Enterprise and Digital Media & Telco 2.0 on monetization and growth strategies, M&A and venture capital.

In broader circles, Shawn is known is professional sports as the winner of the 2005 Rolex 24 at Daytona, class winner in the Baja 1000 and was the top America's rider in the 2003 Paris Dakar. Shawn holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.

John Walecka

Founding Partner of Redpoint Ventures

John Walecka is a Founding Partner of Redpoint Ventures and is passionate about companies with innovative business models.

John is very active in Redpoint's investment activity in the software area. John is currently working with Avnera, Envia, Fortinet (FTNT), InterMolecular, Schooner, Datameer and most recently FunSockets. He is very involved in Datameer's big data efforts around Hadoop, FunSockets's new open gaming SaaS platform and Schooner's mySQL and noSQL software products.

John has helped many entrepreneurs in the enterprise and broadband infrastructure spaces achieve success including: Entropic (ENTR), BCD Semiconductor (BCDS), Xylan (acquired by Alcatel), Wellfleet Communications (merged into Bay Networks), Synernetics (acquired by 3Com), Agile Networks (acquired by Lucent), Network Equipment Technologies (NWK), Polycom (PLCM), Onstream (acquired by 3Com), Avici Networks (AVCI), TransMedia Communications (acquired by Cisco), Lightera Networks (acquired by Ciena), Promatory Communications (acquired by Nortel), Netro (NTRO), StratumOne (acquired by Cisco) and Trapeze (acquired by Beldin). In addition, John has led investments in a number of software infrastructure companies, including Sybase (SYBS), Documentum (DCTM), Object Design (ODIS) and Vitria Technology (VITR). He has also been involved with Redpoint China companies Qihoo (QIHU), BCD Semiconductor (BCDS) and AMEC.

John is currently a Director of the Stanford Business School Venture Capital Trust, an advisor to the Stanford Engineering School and on the board of the SFMOMA. Prior to founding Redpoint, John was a general partner with Brentwood Venture Capital and worked at Hewlett Packard.

John received a B.S. and an M.S. in Engineering from Stanford University and a M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Stefan Groschupf

Chief Executive Officer

Stefan Groschupf is the co-founder and CEO of Datameer and is well known for his entrepreneurial accomplishments in data management and large-scale distributed computing.

Before Datameer, Stefan was the co-founder and CEO of Scale Unlimited, a leading provider of educational and consulting services for Hadoop and related technologies with proven success in companies such as HP, Sun, Apple, Deutsche Telekom and Nokia. Earlier, Stefan was CEO of 101Tec, a supplier of Hadoop and Nutch-based search and text classification software to industry-leading companies such as DHL and EMI Music. Stefan has also served as CTO at Thinglink, a developer of social objects used in social interaction design, as well as at Sproose, a social search engine company.