Ted Kummert

Venture Partner

2017 - Current

Responsible for identifying new investment opportunities and providing strategic and operational advice to Madrona portfolio companies. Focused on enterprise opportunities with depth interest in data & analytics, ML&AI, platforms and Intelligent Applications.

Board Member

2018

Senior Advisor

2023 - 2023

Chief Product Development Officer

2020 - 2023

Drove product vision and execution for the UiPath Automation Platform. Provided leadership to globally distributed multi-disciplinary team including Product Management, Engineering, Applied Science (AI & ML), Product Design, IT, Security & Trust and Product Support.

EVP Products & Engineering

2013 - 2017

Drove product vision, strategy and execution for Apptio - the creator of the Technology Business Management (TBM) software category. TBM enables IT leaders to run IT "like a business" providing planning, costing, billing, benchmarking and other capabilities as part of an integrated SaaS offering. Drove expansion and transformation of product portfolio from a custom platform based solution to discrete, configurable applications. The transformation of Apptio's product line (and GTM strategy) were core to Apptio's continued growth story including Apptio's IPO in September 2016. Provided leadership to multi-disciplinary team including Product Management, Engineering, Product Design, Technical Operations, IT and InfoSec. Also provided leadership to Product Marketing for one year. Grew the organization, recruited key senior talent including adding an additional development site in Colorado. Transformed delivery capabilities for all of Apptio's SaaS applications to a continuous delivery model with improving quality and pace of innovation.

Venture Partner

2013 - 2013

Responsible for identifying new investment opportunities and providing strategic counsel and operational advice to Madrona portfolio companies

Corporate Vice President, Business Platform Division

2007 - 2013

Responsible for engineering and business leadership of Microsoft’s Application Platform, including data platform (SQL Server), application server/middleware and web server products and technologies delivered both on-premises and in the cloud. Direct report of President, Server and Tools Business, led world-wide engineering team of over 2,400 engineers, business responsibility for multi-billion dollar revenue business Delivered outstanding business results consistently; strong growth and revenue share gains across tenure while doubling revenue; delivered quality, impactful releases more frequently Drove cross-company strategy for increasing share of mission critical segment of the database market – drove change to product plans, marketing, sales, services and support offerings Led the cloud-transformation of the Application Platform – including new product roadmap, engineering process changes and a new organization structure Led the expansion of data warehouse product offerings; included acquisition of DATAllegro and entry into the appliance market Led strategy and vision formation for Microsoft’s “new data platform”; including incorporation of Big Data technologies

Corporate Vice President, Security Access and Solutions Division

2005 - 2006

Engineering and business leadership for Microsoft's enterprise security products, Windows Server solutions and Remote Desktop Services

Corporate Vice President, Business Process and Integration Division

2004 - 2005

Engineering and business leadership for integration and workflow products

Corporate Vice President, MSN Subscription Services

1999 - 2003

Development Manager, General Manager, Windows CE and Embedded Products

1993 - 1999

Engineer, Windows NT

1989 - 1993

Engineer

1988 - 1989

Engineer

1985 - 1988