Jaspreet Singh

Founder and CEO

Founder and CEO, Jaspreet Singh, brings a combination of product vision and general manager experience that has allowed Druva to be one of the fastest-growing companies in the $28B data protection and management market. His entrepreneurial spirit enabled him to bootstrap Druva, which has now raised some $200M in venture funding and over 4000 customers worldwide. His market and technology insights have led him to create the first and only cloud native, Data Management-as-a-Service (DMaaS) company, delivering innovative technology solutions and distinctive consumption models that are disrupting the classic data protection market. Prior to starting Druva, Jaspreet held foundational roles at Veritas and Ensim Corp. Additionally, he holds multiple patents and has a B.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.

Mike Gustafson

Executive Chairman

Mike Gustafson is as an Independent Board Director. In his more than 25 years of experience, he has successfully led multiple technology companies and teams including public and private companies across infrastructure and software offerings, as well as high growth businesses from pre-revenue to multi-billion dollar revenues. Mike was previously CEO and Chairman of Virident Systems that was acquired by Western Digital Corporation. He also served as CEO and Board Member of BlueArc Corporation which became a top 3 enterprise network attached storage company and was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems where he later served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the File and Content Business. Earlier in his career, Mike held senior roles in sales, services, marketing and product at McDATA Corporation (MCDT) which became public (IPO) in 2000 and at IBM Corporation.

He also serves on the boards of Reltio, Everspin (MRAM), Matterport, and ClearDB. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis – John M. Olin School of Business.

Milind Borate

Co-Founder & CTO

Milind has more than 20 years’ experience in enterprise product development and delivery. Prior to co-founding Druva, he worked at Veritas Software as Technical Director for SAN-FS and served on the board of the Veritas patent committee. Milind holds several patents in storage technology and co-authored the book “Undocumented Windows NT” in 1998. His current areas of interest are cloud storage and machine learning for unstructured data. Milind is passionate about building engineering teams that deliver end-to-end solutions and among his favorite pass-times is philosophizing on software development.

Mahesh Patel

Chief Financial Officer

Mahesh has over 14 years of experience in financial leadership and infrastructure development at high growth companies. He joins Druva from RingCentral where he was the VP Corporate Controller and Treasurer and was instrumental in the company’s 2013 IPO. Prior to this Mahesh was the VP Corporate Controller at Intematix and served in various leadership roles at Atheros Communications, building the company’s financial infrastructure and supporting revenue growth from $100M to $1.2B through its acquisition by Qualcomm.

Thorsten Freitag

Chief Revenue Officer

Thorsten Freitag is Chief Revenue Officer. He is a seasoned sales executive with more than two decades of sales, management and finance experience. Before joining Druva, Thorsten founded and served as CEO at Valesco Ventures, where he established international sales subsidiaries, accelerated top-line growth, and improved profitability for some of the most innovative technology companies in IT infrastructure and security. Prior to Valesco Ventures, he held a variety of worldwide executive roles at Infoblox, F5 Networks, and Cisco.

Sherry Lowe

Chief Marketing Officer

A Silicon Valley enterprise tech marketing veteran, Lowe joined Druva after spending six years at Splunk as Vice President of Corporate Marketing where her leadership was key in helping elevate the Splunk brand and its champions’ voices across the globe. While there, Lowe built and led a 60+ person team that helped drive revenue from $70M pre-IPO to over $1.2B in FY18. Prior to Splunk, Lowe was Vice President of Marketing at MarkLogic. She has also held senior marketing leadership positions at Actian, Savvion and Business Objects (acquired by SAP). Sherry is also an award-winning former print and television broadcaster and was one of the first-ever female sportscasters. She has a Masters of English from Indiana State University and a Bachelor of Science from Arizona State University.

James Takazawa

Chief People Officer

He holds an MBA from the USC. James Takazawa leads the Human Resources function and is responsible for Druva’s commitment to recruit, retain and develop the most talented employees. He brings to Druva more than 20 years of expertise driving strategic organizational growth and transformation at a global level while managing complex international operations and HR with an array of industry-shaping companies. Prior, he was the VP of HR at Ayasdi, where he led the company through a transformational value-creation period of tripling headcount and a rare recognition of Fortune’s Most Innovative Companies two years in a row. Before Ayasdi, he served as the VP of HR at Guavus (acquired by Thales) and Tagged (acquired by MeetMe) where he led those companies through international hyper-growth, IPO readiness, M&A execution, and best company recognitions resulting in their subsequent acquisitions.

Sunil Wadhwa

SVP – Global Customer Services

Sunil joins Druva with over 20 years of experience in customer service and support. He has a proven track record of building high-performing customer support organizations and developing the infrastructure, systems, and processes required to provide world-class support to global companies. He previously was at Palo Alto Networks, where he defined and implemented the global strategy for customer support. He also served as a technical support manager at Juniper Networks and held technical positions at Vinciti Networks, SAP India, and Global Telecom Services. He co-authored “ScreenOS Cookbook” in 2008.

Abhay Ghaisas

VP, Engineering

Abhay comes to Druva having spent close to 22 years in the software industry. Before joining Druva, he has led innovative teams in Motorola and in BMC Software covering a wide range of technology areas from satellite telecommunications to cellular telephony to data-center automation. In particular, he has led teams that were responsible for creating new technology and new products. He has experience in intellectual property creation and has served on the patent review committees of the previous companies.

Prem Ananthakrishnan

VP, Product Management

Prem has over 15 years of experience in product management and marketing. He has a proven ability to successfully create, launch and scale products, and at Druva he’s responsible for driving product vision, strategy and execution. Most recently, Prem was a senior executive at AppSense (acquired by LANDESK), where he was instrumental in expanding the company’s addressable market through innovative products in the data management and analytics space. He has also held product management leadership roles at Juniper Networks and Cisco Systems, where he successfully managed multi-million dollar product lines and businesses.

Bridget Warwick

Chief Of Staff

Bridget Warwick is Chief of Staff for Druva. Bridget has spent the last 20 years in the data storage industry where she has built teams, products and partnerships that focus on a customer-centric approach to data storage. She brings leadership experience that spans engineering, product management, business development and marketing via executive roles at NetApp, BlueArc (acquired by HDS), Nexenta, StorSimple (acquired by Microsoft), Avalanche Technology and HGST/Western Digital.

Timm Hoyt

VP Channel and Alliances

Timm joins Druva with more than 20 years of technology sales and channel experience. He has a proven background leading direct and indirect sales teams as well as building global channel presence. Most recently, Timm was VP Sales, Americas, at Atlantis Computing and VP Worldwide Sales & Marketing at Skyera (acquired by Western Digital). Prior to this he served in a number of direct and indirect sales leadership roles at Brocade, including leading enterprise sales for EMEA and directing Brocade’s worldwide OEM business.

Jeff McAllister

VP of Sales, Americas

Jeff has 18 years of experience in sales management at both startup and Fortune 500 companies, and has a proven track record of sales team development. At Druva, he is responsible for all sales activity across the Americas as well as growing customer relationships. Prior to Druva, Jeff held leadership roles at Interwoven (IPO 1999) and Virsa (acquired by SAP), and was part of the Sales organization at both Sun Microsystems and Atria Software when those companies went public. He has also held sales management positions at Lithium and Oracle.

Dave Packer

VP, Product and Alliance Marketing

Dave has more than 20 years of experience influencing products in the enterprise technology space, primarily focused on information management and governance. At Druva, Dave heads Corporate and Product Marketing, which serves an integral role leading product definition and direction. Previously, Dave held executive positions at Autonomy Corp., Interwoven Inc., and Silicon Graphics. He was also instrumental in the product and market definition of the first widely deployed mobile device, Tablet PC, while at Uppercase, Inc., (acquired by Microsoft in 2000).

W. Curtis Preston

Chief Technical Architect

W. Curtis Preston is known as “Mr. Backup,” having specialized in backup and recovery for 25 years. He started his career as the backup admin for a $35B credit card company, and has since designed and implemented some of the world’s largest backup systems, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies. His passion for protecting everyone’s data includes founding backupcentral.com, writing the O’Reilly books Backup & Recovery and Using SANs & NAS, conducting several hundred backup seminars around the world, as well as speaking at hundreds of webinars and trade shows.

Eugenia Buzogly Esq., CIPP

Director of Legal and DPO

Eugenia specializes in counseling privately held companies in Silicon Valley on legal compliance, privacy, technology licensing, and intellectual property matters. As Druva’s Director of Legal and DPO, Eugenia is responsible for defining legal strategy, advising on domestic and international data privacy regulations, supporting commercial transactions, managing the organizations’ intellectual property portfolio, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Eugenia’s background in high tech law and data privacy gives her unique insight into the issues faced by the cloud data management and security sector. Prior to Druva, Eugenia held various legal roles at eGain, eSilicon, and Entrepreneur’s Law Clinic.

Darron Makrokanis

VP, Federal

Darron comes to Druva most recently from Tenable Network Security where he was the Vice President of Federal Sales and Field Operations. There he was responsible for record sales growth and scaling out the federal division. Prior to Tenable, Darron worked for Splunk where he was a Sr. Business Development Program Executive for Civilian, DoD, & Intel. He was responsible for getting Splunk included in major federal programs of record which ultimately helped drive the public sector to record sales revenue. Darron also worked for Booz Allen Hamilton for almost 5 years where he lead business development efforts and managed a team of on-site consultants at the Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology Directorate, Explosives Division, as well as several other government agencies. Over the last 20 years, Darron has spent time either directly in government or supporting civilian, DoD, intelligence and law enforcement markets/agencies. Additionally, Darron served as an intelligence officer for 6 years in the U.S. Navy Reserves and over a decade in law enforcement as a SWAT/Special Operations Officer, Major Crimes Detective/Investigator, and supervisor.

Rick Powles

Regional VP, EMEA

Rick joins Druva with over 20 years of experience in sales leadership. He has a proven background of delivering significant revenue and margin growth within global software and infrastructure businesses across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Prior to joining Druva he was Managing Director UK&I at Acronis and before that held senior sales and management roles at Oracle, VERITAS/Symantec and Commvault. Rick has an enviable track record of restructuring businesses and redefining strategies to facilitate access to and growth into existing and new markets.

Pete Yamasaki

Regional VP, APAC

Pete joins Druva with 20 years of experience in leadership roles across sales, channel development, and product strategy at both startups and Fortune 500 companies. He has led the business expansion into APAC for several innovative technology companies, and most recently was at SeaMicro (acquired by AMD) where he managed the company’s largest customers and expansion into APAC. Prior to this he was a business development executive for Cisco’s worldwide Service Provider Cloud practice.

Jaspreet Singh

Founder and CEO

Founder and CEO, Jaspreet Singh, brings a combination of product vision and general manager experience that has allowed Druva to be one of the fastest-growing companies in the $28B data protection and management market. His entrepreneurial spirit enabled him to bootstrap Druva, which has now raised some $200M in venture funding and over 4000 customers worldwide. His market and technology insights have led him to create the first and only cloud native, Data Management-as-a-Service (DMaaS) company, delivering innovative technology solutions and distinctive consumption models that are disrupting the classic data protection market. Prior to starting Druva, Jaspreet held foundational roles at Veritas and Ensim Corp. Additionally, he holds multiple patents and has a B.S. in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati.

Shailendra Singh

Managing Director, Sequoia Capital

Shailendra is a Managing Director at Sequoia Capital India and is based out of Bangalore. He has been at the firm for over ten years, and led over a dozen investments in India and SE Asia. He focuses on Consumer Internet/Mobile and Enterprise Software investments, from seed stage to early growth capital. His current board seats include Carousell, Craftsvilla, Druva, Go-Jek, JustDial (NSE:JUSTDIAL), Mu Sigma, Pine Labs, Practo, Scio Health Analytics, Tokopedia and Voonik. His prior investments include Freecharge (acquired by Snapdeal), GlobalLogic (acquired by Apax Partners), Infoedge (NSE:NAUKRI) and eClerx (NSE:ECLERX). Prior to Sequoia, Shailendra worked at Bain & Co in New York and was earlier an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley during the dotcom bubble. Shailendra received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and a Chemical Engineering degree from IIT Mumbai. Shailendra is also a Kauffman Fellow.

Jishnu Bhattacharjee

Managing Director, Nexus Venture Partners

Jishnu Bhattacharjee is Managing Director at Nexus Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm in India and US, investing in innovative early to early-growth stage companies. He brings several years of investing and operating expertise in hi-technology start-ups. His interests span software, cloud computing, internet, digital and social media, mobile, and systems. Jishnu’s investments include Cloud.com (acquired by Citrix), Gluster (acquired by Red Hat), Vdopia, Kaltura, and Druva. Jishnu is an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he ran the Venture Capital Club and co-led GSB Principal Investing Conference. Jishnu also holds an MS degree in electrical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and a BTech from IIT Kharagpur, and is an inventor of more than a dozen US patents.

Tom Banahan

Managing Director, Tenaya Capital

Tom is a Managing Director with Tenaya Capital. Tom has been with Tenaya since 1999 and was included on the Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors for the past two years. Prior to joining Tenaya, Tom spent 20 years working in business development and sales in the technology industry. He was part of the executive teams that brought both Marimba and Spyglass to public offering, and began his career in the sales organization at IBM. Tom holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Mike Gustafson

Independent Director

Mike Gustafson is as an Independent Board Director. In his more than 25 years of experience, he has successfully led multiple technology companies and teams including public and private companies across infrastructure and software offerings, as well as high growth businesses from pre-revenue to multi-billion dollar revenues. Mike was previously CEO and Chairman of Virident Systems that was acquired by Western Digital Corporation. He also served as CEO and Board Member of BlueArc Corporation which was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems where he later served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the File and Content Business. Earlier in his career, Mike held senior roles in sales, services, marketing and product at McDATA and IBM.

Mike also serves as Executive Chairman of the Board of ClearDB. He is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis – John M. Olin School of Business.

Milind Borate

Co-Founder & CTO

Milind has more than 20 years’ experience in enterprise product development and delivery. Prior to co-founding Druva, he worked at Veritas Software as Technical Director for SAN-FS and served on the board of the Veritas patent committee. Milind holds several patents in storage technology and co-authored the book “Undocumented Windows NT” in 1998. His current areas of interest are cloud storage and machine learning for unstructured data. Milind is passionate about building engineering teams that deliver end-to-end solutions and among his favorite pass-times is philosophizing on software development.

Harish Belur

Vice President

Harish Belur joined Riverwood Capital in 2011 as Vice President. Prior to Riverwood, Harish  worked at Cisco Systems where he led Product Management teams in Switching, Routing and Smart Grid sectors. Previously, Harish co-founded and led Product Management at Greenfield Networks, which was acquired by Cisco Systems and resulted in industry leading ME-3×00 carrier ethernet access products. Harish has a BTech in EE from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Harish Belur

Vice President

Harish Belur joined Riverwood Capital in 2011 as Vice President. Prior to Riverwood, Harish  worked at Cisco Systems where he led Product Management teams in Switching, Routing and Smart Grid sectors. Previously, Harish co-founded and led Product Management at Greenfield Networks, which was acquired by Cisco Systems and resulted in industry leading ME-3×00 carrier ethernet access products. Harish has a BTech in EE from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gregg Adkin

Managing Director

Gregg Adkin is Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, where he leads investments for the Client Solutions Group and the Infrastructure Solutions Group. Gregg’s responsibilities include sourcing, leading and managing investments in Storage, Servers, Networking, Converged Infrastructure, Data Protection, IoT, Cloud Native and Extended Reality.Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Gregg led Business Development for EMC’s Storage Division, where he was responsible for Strategy, M&A and Partnerships. He has extensive experience in venture capital, business development, M&A and operations. Gregg joined EMC in 2010 from Valley Ventures, where he was a General Partner responsible for managing IT investments. Prior to Valley Ventures, Gregg held multiple executive leadership roles at Intel in sales, marketing and Intel Capital. Gregg holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University and is based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Gregg represents Dell Technologies Capital on board of directors of following companies: CNEX Labs, FogHorn Systems, Druva, Nantero, EdicoGenome, and Nasuni.

Jeff Parks

Founding Partner, Executive Committee, Riverwood Capital

Jeff Parks is a founding General Partner and Executive Committee member of Riverwood Capital. Riverwood manages +$2 billion in capital commitments, and makes private equity investments in high-growth businesses, primarily in the global technology, technology-enabled and related growth industries. Prior to establishing Riverwood, Jeff was an executive at KKR, where he helped focus on large scale leveraged buyout investments in the technology sector, and an investment professional in the Principal Opportunities Fund at Oaktree Capital Management, where he specialized in private equity investment in distressed companies. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker at UBS Investment Bank in Los Angeles. Jeff has extensive experience investing in and scaling global technology companies. During his extensive investing career, Jeff has invested in a vast array of companies and completed dozens of transactions. In addition, he has worked closely with several successful entrepreneurs in the scaling of their companies, bringing both capital and expertise to those initiatives. Jeff earned a Dual BA in Economics and Mathematics from Pomona College (Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in Claremont, California. He is or has been a director of Accellion, LogRhythm, Nutanix (NASD: NTNX), SintecMedia (Chairman), Spredfast, Ticketfly, UGSI and Virtual Instruments. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of Pomona College.

Denis Murphy

Sales Leader and Advisor for Go-to-Market & Strategy

Denis Murphy has over 25 years of experience in sales, sales management and strategy working with companies such as Nicira (acquired by Vmware) where he led WW Sales, Riverbed where he led the Americas field organization, BlueArc (acquired by HDS) EMC and Mercury Interactive (acquired by HP). Mr. Murphy now works with early stage and pre-IPO companies on Go To Market strategy.

David Schneider

Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Services at ServiceNow

David Schneider has served as ServiceNow’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Services since June 2011. Prior to joining ServiceNow, Schneider served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales of the backup recovery systems division of EMC from July 2009 to June 2011. From January 2004 to July 2009, Schneider held senior positions at Data Domain, most recently Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Prior to joining Data Domain, he served as Vice President of Alliances, Channel and OEM Sales for Borland Software from January 2003 to December 2003. From May 2002 to January 2003, Schneider served as Vice President of Western United States Sales for TogetherSoft Corporation (later acquired by Borland Software). From January 1999 to May 2002, he was Western Regional Manager at Iona Technologies, Inc., an infrastructure software company. Schneider holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Harris Barton

Founder & MD, H. Barton Asset Management

In his current role, Harris Barton manages a $30 million fund providing capital to VC-backed technology startups and a $90 million fund that invests in the funds of the country’s top-tier VCs. Previously, Barton cofounded investment firm HRJ Capital and helped lead the San Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowl wins as an All-Pro NFL offensive lineman. In 2004, he cofounded Champion Charities, which has raised $7 million for brain tumor research and patient care. Barton holds a BA in Finance from the University of North Carolina.

Mick Etoh

SVP and GM of Innovation Management, NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

Dr. Minoru “Mick” Etoh has several professional and academic roles. He is a Senior Vice President and the General Manager of the Innovation Management Department of NTT DOCOMO. He is also President and CEO of Mirai Translate, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan). He commutes to DOCOMO Innovations, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA) from Tokyo frequently. His fields of expertise include mobile network architecture and protocols, big data mining, cloud solutions for data storage and synchronization, pattern recognition, natural language interfaces, computer vision, distributed software, multimedia signal processing, audio/video/speech coding technologies, media delivery over mobile networks, and standardization activities.

He joined NTT DOCOMO in 2000, where he contributed to launching DOCOMO’s 3G mobile multimedia services, including video phones and applications with audio-visual content. He is recognized as one of the major contributors to the H.264 standardization activity, which received an Engineering Emmy Award in 2008. He was President and CEO of NTT DOCOMO Ventures, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) from 2014 to 2016, and President and CEO of DOCOMO Capital, Inc. (Palo Alto, California) from 2012 to 2015. He received B.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from Hiroshima University, as well as a Ph.D. degree from Osaka University, in 1983, 1985 and 1993 respectively.

Matthew Morgan

Marketing Leader & Advisor for Go-to-Market & Strategy

Matt has a twenty year Silicon Valley history, leading marketing strategy and execution at enterprise cloud, infrastructure, and SaaS technology companies. As former Druva chief marketing officer, he led global marketing strategy and operations, and serving as a corporate officer as the company transitioned to Data Management-as-a-Service and accelerated into the enterprise. Other executive experience includes leading some of the valley’s largest marketing and product organizations at infrastructure leaders such as Citrix and Hewlett Packard Enterprise.