Jon Gelsey
Founder
Mercer Island, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2021 - Current
DataGuard: Visibility into Data Stores and Objects
The Data+AI Security company. We safeguard data, detect threats, ensure compliance & reduce AI risks, so you can Innovate with Confidence
Raised $35,700,000.00 from Forgepoint Capital, W11 Capital Management, The Syndicate Group and Prefix Capital.
Board Member
2020
Cloud Native App & API developers ❤️ Macrometa because we make running stateful data driven functions and micro services on any cloud, edge and service provider quick and easy.
Macrometa is a Global Data Network with a Global Data Mesh, Edge Compute, and built-in Data Protection for building real-time apps and APIs
Raised $27,900,000.00 from Shasta Ventures, Sixty Degree Capital and Akamai Technologies.
CEO
2018 - 2020
Machine learning innovation pioneer that was spun out of the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for AI. Acquired by Apple in January 2020.
Advisor
2018 - 2018
Xnor.ai's technology runs deep learning models efficiently on edge devices such as phones, IoT devices, cameras, drones, and embedded CPUs.
Raised $14,600,000.00 from NGP Capital, Autotech Ventures and Madrona.
CEO
2014 - 2017
Auth0 is the enterprise identity management platform that developers love. We delight developers with a zero friction identity and access management solution for cloud-hybrid applications and APIs. In a world where identity is the new firewall, Auth0 lets developers authenticate any application or API on any platform to any identity provider with just a few lines of code and our cloud service.
Auth0 is a cloud identity management SAAS application for the web, mobile, IoT, and internal software.
Raised $332,275,000.00 from Steadfast Capital Management and Employee Stock Option Fund.
Member of Board of Directors
2009 - 2014
Volunteer BoD member at school for autism spectrum & normally-abled children. School grew from 14 to 96 (April 2014) students.
Director, Strategy and M&A
2012 - 2014
Responsibility was to work closely with Satya Nadella and other senior technical and business leaders of Microsoft’s $20B+ Cloud & Enterprise product lines (formerly Server and Tools Business) to figure out and where we could profitably make another dollar. My team both ideated new business hypotheses and evaluated the product teams’ hypotheses of how Microsoft could grow through new businesses, new products, or new features of existing products. Position required very high "learning agility", i.e. the ability to pick things up quickly, to learn on the job, and to take initiative. When C&E came to the consensus to grow inorganically, we vetted and refined the business model, quantified the opportunity, valued the target, and managed the deal process for Microsoft’s Windows Server, Azure, SQL Server, System Center, and Development Tools (e.g. Visual Studio) product lines, as well as the Commerce Platform that services all of Microsoft.
Director, Corporate Development
2007 - 2012
Senior dealmaker in Corporate Development group. Responsible for leading teams to evaluate, structure, and execute acquisitions, divestitures, investments, and congruent commercial deals. Excellent senior executive communication skills. Strong ability to manage attorneys, engineering leads, product group general managers, and their teams to execute highly complex projects.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
CEO and Founder
2006 - 2007
Startup developing web-based services to exploit ubiquitous low power, low cost Z-Wave and 802.15.4 sensing and control silicon and devices in home information networks.
Senior Investment Manager
2000 - 2006
Sourced, structured and executed minority equity investments in technology and consumer media startups. Primary focus was discovery and evaluation of technologies and business models to accelerate Intel strategies. Staff member (dotted line) to heads of Intel Labs and the Intel Digital Home Group. Intel BoD representative for six portfolio companies.
An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.
Director, Product Management
1996 - 2000
Launched and grew Mentor's most successful product family of all time, the Calibre semiconductor design tools, for a top three software company in the electronic design vertical.
Pyxis Technology delivers integrated circuit routing software for both full and semi-custom IC designs.
Raised $18,970,000.00 from Austin Ventures, Formative Ventures, KT Venture Group and CMEA Capital.
Product Manager, Massively Parallel Computers (Convex Computer Corp)
1991 - 1996
Product management and industry management for a 128-processor, flat address space, cache-coherent parallel supercomputer targeted at high-end scientific and business applications. Spec'd, launched and grew new supercomputer product family. While primarily accelerating matrix manipulation and database applications, the greatest innovation in the product line was the dusty-deck programming model enabled by sophisticated compiler and OS technology that eased migration from traditional vector supercomputers.
HP Labs creates, identifies, and develops technologies to connect people and define their future.
Education
BA, BS
1981 - 1986