Rashida Hodge
Limited Partner at Neotribe Ventures
Rashida Hodge
Limited Partner at Neotribe Ventures
Durham, North Carolina
Overview
Work Experience
CVP, Azure Data and AI | Customer Success
2021 - Current
Leading the Customer Success Azure Data and AI Team, focused on helping clients re-imagine their business outcomes with a market leading portfolio.
Board Member
2023
As a Vista Equity Portfolio Company, Sonatype is the software supply chain management company. Sonatype researchers have analyzed more than 120 million open source components – 40x more than its competitors – and the Sonatype platform has automatically blocked over 145,000 malicious components from entering developers’ code. More than 2,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune 100 and 15 million software developers, rely on our tools and guidance to be ambitious, move fast and do it securely.
Limited Partner
2021
Operator Collective brings together as limited partners 100+ of tech’s most sought-after operators, investors, and founders from diverse backgrounds to invest in and accelerate the next generation of enterprise tech.
Limited Partner
2020
Neotribe is led by a team of serial entrepreneurs with a track record of building highly successful companies and investing in bold new ideas. Our passion lies in helping founders to usher in the next wave of transformative technology
Board Member
2020
Serves girls ages 6-18 at more than 1,500 sites in 350 cities across the US and Canada. Research-based programming is delivered by trained professionals who focus on the development of the whole girl, supporting, mentoring, and guiding girls in an affirming, pro-girl environment. | https://girlsinc.org/
Board Member
2020 - 2022
Misty, Sphero spinoff, provides a new world of opportunities with robots for business, personal, research and educational use. Purpose-built for developers, has the tools and docs you need to easily build skills, and is readily extensible via third-party APIs, hardware modifications, and additional sensors. Key investors include: Foundry Group and Venrock Partners.
Global VP, North America Go-to-Market | Global Markets
2019 - 2020
Leading $2-3B P&L for one of IBM’s largest segment sales go-to-market teams, selling hardware, software, consulting and cloud technology services; and tasked with reinventing the IBM client footprint with AI, Cloud and Emerging Technology.
VP, Strategic Partnerships and Product Management | Watson AI
2017 - 2018
I defined the go-to-market and product strategy for Watson partnerships from inception, driving strategy, development and delivery of AI solutions with partners like Salesforce, Box and Workday, which leveraged IBM Watson AI capabilities to embed Watson and add functionality to their products and value for their clients.
Director, Client Delivery Technical Professional Services | Watson AI
2014 - 2017
After Watson was launched, I established and scaled a world-class AI professional services delivery organization to develop, architect and implement complex Watson AI solutions.
COO and Chief of Staff to IBM Senior VP | Watson AI
2013 - 2014
Selected to serve as the operational leader for SVP, Mike Rhodin, responsible for more than 50% of IBM’s software business, key software acquisitions and emerging technologies, including Watson AI.
Strategy and Business Development Executive | Integrated Supply Chain
2012 - 2013
I led the development of a global 2020 Supply Chain Strategy, looking 8 years into the future to plan a data and analytics-driven intelligent supply chain for a multi-tiered ecosystem.
Europe Business Leader | Technical Support Services
2008 - 2011
Relocating to Bratislava, Slovakia, I led a large global organization and drove the operational support of Maintenance Service contracts for IBM Europe and Africa.
Sales Operations Manager | Pre-Sales and Go-to-Market
2006 - 2008
I led the operational management of a startup organization providing pre-sales and technical support to sales.
Supply Chain Leadership Program
2004 - 2006
Selected for the Supply Chain Leadership Program to drive change and help transform the company’s supply chain.
IBM Development and Research Program Manager
2001 - 2004
My first role at IBM was leading joint development and research projects.