Anthony Lye

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Quid

Sep 2024 - Current (1 year 11 months)

Quid Engineers Outcomes! We create Market Models for customers from a multi petabyte database of external data thats updated every day. Our models leverage AI Chatbots and AI Agents that deliver actionable insights and trends. These delvier profitable outcomes. We help clients capture new sales opportunities, reduce inventory cost, innovate on products and manage corporate brand risk. We engineer, we don't customize. Unlike legacy SaaS vendors, we combine the power of our data, AI and people to deliver the outcomes our clients want. We don’t leave clients to flounder in complicated and expensive tools and hope they figure it out. We clarify what the win looks like and partner to deliver it. We serve over 500 of the world’s largest brand

Advisory Board Member

MACH Alliance

Jan 2024 - Current (2 years 7 months)

I have accepted the request of the MACH alliance to join its C-Suite advisory board. I am very excited to work with my peer group to define the future of customer experiances. The MACH Alliance defines the modern architecture for content and commerce. https://machalliance.org/

CEO, consultant to the board of directors

Amplience

Apr 2023 - May 2025 (2 years 2 months)

Amplience is the AI Content company that brings together data, performance insights and generative AI – helping merchants and developers deliver persuasive content for every shopping context, fueling truly personalized and connected experiences. More than 500 of the world’s leading brands use Amplience including Crate & Barrel, Ulta Beauty, Coach, OTTO Group, GAP, Currys, and The Very Group. Amplience is backed by investors Farview Equity Partners, Sixth Street and Octopus Ventures.

Operating Advisor

Bessemer Venture Partners

Feb 2023 - Current (3 years 6 months)

Helping Bessemer Venture Partners portfolio companies scale and operate their business.

Global Head, Apollo and Product led Growth Business Unit

Palantir Technologies

Jul 2022 - Jul 2023 (1 year 1 month)

Palantir is expanding its market opportunity through what the industry calls Product led Growth https://openviewpartners.com/product-led-growth/). How do we take the 15 years of deep R&D to fully realize the value creation potential? Things like Apollo, Pipeline Builder, and other services can be delivered as a service for many more customers and partners. We are iterating on a new digital, bottoms up, consumption based motion for Commercial and the Public Sector with Foundry, sometimes with zero commit, free trials, small pilots, departmental deployments, all conducted on Palantir.com, the public cloud marketplaces and through channel partners. We are learning there is a lot about the product that needs to evolve to meet that opportuni

Executive Vice President and General Manager

NetApp

Mar 2017 - Jul 2022 (5 years 5 months)

I led and built the Public Cloud Business Unit at NetApp. I had responsibility for the full cloud P&L which includes development, product management, operations, marketing and sales. I pursued both organic and inorganic efforts as the business grew from $500k to >$550M in annual recurring revenues. Public Clouds represented a significant opportunity for NetApp as enterprises embrace them as the platform for digital transformation. Uniquely delivered first party solutions to AWS, GCP and Azure. Reporting directly to NetApp CEO George Kurian, I led the business, the strategy and its execution necessary to create a fast growing recurring revenue cloud business for NetApp. I acquired 12 companies and built a world class team.

Member Board of Directors

Spoken Communications

Oct 2016 - Mar 2018 (1 year 6 months)

Avaya purchased Spoken, a great outcome for a great company with great product and great people. I had the privilege to be a board member at the company through its growth and successful outcome. Spoken provided a deep-learning AI-centric cloud-hosted conversation platform that replaces enterprise on premise call center infrastructure from Cisco and Avaya with a turn-key cloud platform, built on AWS. Spoken delivers voice, call routing, IVR, chat, email, speaker authentication and conversational analytics bots powered by big data. Spoken is quickly heading towards 1M hours of best-in-class speech recognition per day!

Member Board of Directors

Spoken Communications

Oct 2016 - Mar 2018 (1 year 6 months)

Avaya purchased Spoken, a great outcome for a great company with great product and great people. I had the privilege to be a board member at the company through its growth and successful outcome. Spoken provided a deep-learning AI-centric cloud-hosted conversation platform that replaces enterprise on premise call center infrastructure from Cisco and Avaya with a turn-key cloud platform, built on AWS. Spoken delivers voice, call routing, IVR, chat, email, speaker authentication and conversational analytics bots powered by big data. Spoken is quickly heading towards 1M hours of best-in-class speech recognition per day!

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Product Marketing Manager

Leading TechnologyTivoli Inc

Group Vice President & GM, Siebel Systems

Oracle

Reporting to the EVP of Marketing I managed product strategy, product management and product marketing for the horizontal CRM products including sales, marketing, service, order management, field service, UCM and UAN. Eventually taking over the verticals covering financial services, telecommunications, life sciences, public sector and high tech manufacturing. With the CTO I led the team and process when we were acquired by Oracle

Senior Vice President & GM CRM

Oracle

Senior Vice President & GM of Customer Relationship Management (CRM), responsible for product strategy, product management, development and cloud operations for Siebel, ATG/Endeca, CRM On Demand, InQuira, Fusion CRM and RightNow Technologies. Managed a group of more than 3,000 people. Acquired 10 companies including RightNow, ATG, Endeca, InQuira, Revenue Technologies & Market2Lead for more than $2.5B Managed responsibilities for CRM Cloud Operations and CRM IT; managing Oracle's own CRM strategy and product usage.

President & Chief Executive Officer

HotSchedules

Served as the President, CEO and board member overseeing the entire company domestically and internationally. I built and led a great team that delivered meaningful results consistently above plan and below expenses for more than 3 years leaving a great company * Number of customer locations grew by 22% * Number of SaaS based locations grew more than 80% * MRR grew by approximately 50% * Revenues doubled with SaaS growth YOY between 36% & 41% * Built a modern IoT platform connected directly thousands of locations. * Built HotSchedules Inventory, the most beautiful mobile solution the industry has ever seen. * Launched HotSchedules Recruit, the restaurants industry’s only network where we can connect great people to great opportunities with

EVP and Chief Cloud Officer

Guidewire Software

As the EVP & Chief Cloud Officer leading the company through the transformation from on-premise to cloud solutions for the global Insurance marketplace. My primary focus for the next few years is to help lead the company to successfully build, acquire, market, sell and implement cloud native offerings. To consider and execute cloud based acquisitions and key strategic partnerships with cloud companies. We are building new cloud native solutions for our customers and new insurers to target small commerical, insurtech and telematics (IoT) and enterprise business models with rapid time to value and change. I am a member of the executive team and report directly to the Chief Executive Officer.

President

Publicis Groupe

I led the team of software engineers building products to assist with the digital transformation of customers across the digital agencies at Publicis. LBi and Digitas. Evaluating technology for commercial product development and utilization by agency customers.

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President & Chief Executive Officer

ePeople

Early multi tenant SaaS solution serving customer service and knowledge management to the high tech vertical. Solution was web based, java in the middle tier and Oracle RDBMS. Solution was built to solve complex problems through active workspaces. Multiple users could collaborate through the spaces, email and IM to solve customer issues. The platform supported both end users and was branded through multiple customers including Oracle, Microsoft, SGI, Adobe, Cognos and Cisco. The company drove thought leadership in service innovation in the CRM industry and received many awards. The company was funded by Menlo Ventures and Redpoint. Company was sold to Support.com and Enkata

Senior Director Major Accounts & Strategic Partners

Remedy Corporation

2nd International Employee and employee #30. Drove sales and marketing in EMEA both direct and through channel partners. Established Remedy as leading vendor for customer service and help desk in Europe over Clarify, Vantive and Scopus. Revenues grew 300% YOY for 16 straight quarters. I was relocated to Headquarters to lead global major accounts and partners worldwide reporting to the Worldwide VP of Sales. Company MVP two years running.

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