VP, Sales & Marketing
Eucalyptus Systems acquired by HP
Jan 2009 - Jan 2011 (2 years 1 month)
• Joined as employee #8 to build Sales and Marketing processes, teams, and goals for growing open source cloud startup that raised $55M in capital.
• Closed the first and the largest Enterprise customers, including Aerospace, Eli Lilly, F5 Networks, Harris, HP, PUMA, NSA, Raytheon, SAP, Sony, State Farm, and Trend Micro.
• Led all aspects of outbound marketing and lead generation online (website, SEM, SEO, email, and social media) as well as offline (events, print, PR).
• Started and managed partner program that eventually grew to become the largest ecosystem of hardware/software ISV’s, OEM’s and SI providers in the private cloud market.