Javier Soltero
Venture Partner at Felicis
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2023 - Current
Metaplane ensures everyone trusts your business' data with automatic anomaly detection, column-level lineage, and incident prevention.
Raised $22,200,000.00 from Snowflake Ventures.
Senior Venture Partner
2023
Putting my experience as an entrepreneur and operator to work in the service of Felicis amazing and growing portfolio of companies.
Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Strategic Advisor
2022
SVP & GM Canva Enterprise
2023 - 2024
Vice President & GM, Google Workspace
2019 - 2022
Led the consumer and commercial products and business for Google's communications and collaboration products including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Drive, Meet, and many others. Led the restructuring of the commercial business and critical product improvements that drove massive user and revenue growth.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Board of Directors
2016 - 2021
Grupo Guayacán, Inc. is a private sector driven non-profit organization founded in 1996 with a unique model that has coupled private equity investment with a series of programs aimed at developing, strengthening, and advancing Puerto Rico’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
President's Global Advisory Council
2017 - 2019
Corporate Vice President - Cortana
2018 - 2018
Corporate Vice President - Office Product Group
2016 - 2018
Responsible for overall product strategy for Microsoft Office. Helped define the company's strategy and product approach for mobile applications resulting in a stronger, clearer set of mobile products. Helped drive significant transformation in Microsoft's product culture and re-establish Microsoft's role as a key innovator.
Corporate Vice President - Outlook
2015 - 2016
Responsible for product management, design, and strategic leadership of the Outlook products across all platforms. Drove significant improvements in Outlook on the Web, Outlook for Mac, and Outlook on Windows. Revitalized the Outlook brand and external narrative.
General Manager - Outlook Mobile
2014 - 2015
Re-launched the Acompli product as Outlook mobile and to create Microsoft's fastest growing mobile application at the time. Established a new product development and delivery model for apps at Microsoft that drove a significant transformation in how Microsoft product teams approached application development.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
CEO/Co-Founder
2013 - 2014
[Acquired by Microsoft in December, 2014: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2014/12/01/microsoft-acquires-acompli-provider-innovative-mobile-email-apps/ ] Bringing the power and ubiquity of email to the mobile era through amazing apps and services. Proving that you can build enterprise products that people will choose and love and that you can do it while playing nicely with IT. As seen on Techcrunch: http://tcrn.ch/1nrDX2u And the Verge: http://bit.ly/1xmW9fO And Engadget: http://engt.co/1nYQyfH We're hiring: https://angel.co/acompli/jobs
Acompli is a mobile email app for professionals that allows to do more with advanced email, full calendaring, and easy file sharing.
Raised $7,300,000.00 from Roland Schemers, Redpoint, Felicis, Ross Dargahi and Harrison Metal.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2013 - 2013
Redpoint partners with visionary founders to create new markets or redefine existing ones at the seed, early, and growth stages.
Chief Technology Officer - SaaS and Application Services
2009 - 2012
Helped drive application platform strategy. Member of the Office of the CTO responsible for key relationships with SaaS providers. Actively involved in key enterprise customer engagements. Developed mobile application platform strategy.
VMware Cloud allows users to run, manage, connect and secure an entire portfolio on any cloud to any device.
Education
BS
1992 - 1997