Steve Herrod

Founding Team

2023 - Current

Partner

2023

Board Member

2021

Board Member

2019

Board Member

2013

Managing Director

2013 - 2023

Board Member Roles: ● Corelight: Aug 2018 - Jan 2023 ● Menlo Security: May 2014 - Jan 2023 ● Prosimo: Jan 2020 - Jan 2023 ● Armorblox: Jul 2018 - Jan 2023 ● Arrcus: Aug 2017 - Jan 2023 ● Espressive: Oct 2016 - Jan 2023 ● Contrast Security: May 2016 - Dec 2022 ● Gitpod: Feb 2021 - Sep 2022 ● Anomali: Nov 2014 - Sep 2022 ● Curai: Feb 2018 - Oct 2022 ● Impira: Aug 2017 - Nov 2022 - SOLD ● Preempt: Jan 2016 - Sep 2020 - SOLD ● RiskRecon: Sep 2015 - Dec 2019 - SOLD ● SignalFx: May 2018 - August 2019 - SOLD ● Zugata: Oct 2016 - Jan 2019 - SOLD ● Catalina Labs: Jan 2016 - Jan 2019 - SOLD ● Datto: Jun 2013 - Dec 2017 - SOLD Co-Host: Equivalent to Magic Podcast 2020 - 2021

CTO & Sr. VP of R&D

2008 - 2013

Member of executive staff responsible for creation and evangelization of VMware's technical strategy. Active participation in 15 acquisitions and company spokesperson with press, partners, analysts, and customers. ● Manage innovation programs, communications, industry standards, and IP strategy. ● General manager for 40-person internal mobile phone start-up ● Named 2009 CTO of the Year by Infoworld ● Named 2009 "Fortune Player of Tech” ● Industry presenter at numerous industry and company events - Keynote at six 10,000+ person events: http://vmworld.com - Keynotes at CloudSlam, Interop, and other international industry events - Author of thought pieces for Barron's, Economist, VirtualStrategy, ... - Several videos on: http://www.youtube.com/user/vmwaretv

VP of R&D

2005 - 2008

Ran 2,000 person R&D department for several months during leadership transitions ● Created and ran partner engineering group, developing large ecosystem across HW and SW domains ● Drove Virtual Infrastructure 3.x, VMware's $1B datacenter offering ● Participation in company’s acquisition by EMC and subsequent IPO on NYSE

Sr. Director of R&D

2002 - 2005

Took over ESX Server, storage, performance, and networking teams (~200 people) ● Drove ESX Server 2.x, company's first enterprise infrastructure offering

Director of R&D

2001 - 2002

Managed virtual machine monitor team

Sr. Director of Software Engineering

1998 - 2001

Responsible for development, test, and certification of "Code Morphing Software" ● IPO'd in 2000 and had largest first day growth until Google's IPO ● Crusoe was named one of IEEE Spectrum's microchips that shook the world Prior Roles at SGI/MIPs, Convex Computer, EDS, and Northern Telecom/BNR. Outside of Work ● Board member of Peninsula School in Menlo Park - Finance and Development committees ● Active in local and federal education initiatives, particularly around progressive education and STEM ● EMC Technical Advisory Board ● Fortune magazine's Brainstorm TECH panel ● Co-owner of Cafe Venetia in Palo Alto ● Father of 3 and active athletics coach

Engineer

1997 - 1998

MIPs Architecture