Jeff Williams
Partner at Bain Capital Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2016 - Current
Partner focused on building and scaling early stage companies through every phase of growth from $0 to 1B run rate. Primarily focus on CyberSecurity and SAAS markets. Work closely with entrepreneurs on deploying calculated playbooks and go-to-market strategies across our portfolio companies to ensure greater success and winning culture.
Bain Capital Ventures invests in seed to growth-stage startups that uses tech to disrupt existing markets or create entirely new ones.
Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)
2010 - 2016
Scaled FireEye Globally. Took bookings from $0 to over a 1B run rate. Hired over 600 people in 60 countries. Built an amazing sales team with incredible culture that led to a successful IPO.
FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Raised $1,685,645,776.00 from ClearSky and Blackstone Tactical Opportunities.
SVP WW Sales
2003 - 2010
IronPort Systems leader in email and web security transformed the security gateway market. Built out and led Sales and Operations from $0 Bookings to over128M in 2005 which lead to an acquisition by Cisco Systems (CSCO) of 830M. Stayed at Cisco for 2.5 years as Vice President of Innovative Technologies where we grew IronPort bookings to over 400M.
Cisco DevNet is your source for everything developer at Cisco Systems.
SVP Sales
2002 - 2003
IntruVert Networks was the industries first Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). Scaled early stage company through a successful acquisition by McAfee.
VP Sales
1992 - 2002
GlobalCenter was the leader in Complex Web Hosting and Security. Grew revenues from $0 to 500M ARR and successfully acquired by Exodus Communications for 6.5B.