Add to Watch ListAdd to Watch List Share This PageShare Email This Page Flag This PageFlag

Key People

Management

Betsy Sutter, VP HR

No bio available. Add a bio.

Tayloe Stansbury, CIO

No bio available. Add a bio.

Karthik Rau, VP Product Management

For over a decade, Karthik Rau has played instrumental roles in defining products and marketing at industry-shaping software companies, including VMware and Opsware. From 2002-2009, he held several executive leadership positions at VMware and reported to CEOs Diane Greene and later Paul Maritz. Rau was most recently Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, overseeing all corporate, field, channel, and alliance marketing across all geographies. Prior to his role in marketing, Rau owned responsibility for VMware's server product portfolio and roadmaps as Vice President of Product Management. Rau led the product and go-to-market strategy for many of VMware's most commercially successful efforts, from the first release of the VirtualCenter management suite to the VMware Infrastructure 3 and vSphere 4 virtualization platforms. Prior to joining VMware, Rau led efforts to create the first commercial version of the Opsware server automation products as a product manager at Opsware (then named Loudcloud).

Rau holds MS and BS degrees in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with distinction, was named a Mayfield and Valentine Fellow, and received the Frederick Terman Engineering Scholastic Award.

Mark Peek, CFO

No bio available. Add a bio.

Tom Baffico, VP Sales

No bio available. Add a bio.

Board of Directors

Paul Levy

No bio available. Add a bio.

Patrick Lee

No bio available. Add a bio.

Mark Leslie

Mark Leslie is the managing director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company, in addition to his work as a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Mark was the founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VERITAS Software. During his tenure as Chief Executive Officer, the company went from 12 employees to 5,500 employees deployed globally, and from a revenue base of $95,000 per year to $1.5 billion per year. In 2000 VERITAS was the tenth largest independent software company by revenue, third largest by market capitalization, and achieved the distinction of becoming a Fortune 1000 company. Prior to VERITAS, Mark served as President and Chief Executive Officer of two Silicon Valley high-tech start up companies and has experience in both engineering and sales in the computer industry.

Mark currently serves on the boards of Network Appliance and a number of privately held high technology corporations, including Cassatt Software, db4objects, Model N Software, SugarCRM and Xsigo Corporation. He also serves on the board of Overseers for the New York University Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is the Chairman of the New York University Science Advisory Board.

Mark received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and mathematics from New York University and completed Harvard Business School's program for management development.

Stephen Luczo

No bio available. Add a bio.

Paul Maritz

No bio available. Add a bio.

Weekly Newsletter

Signup for the VentureBeat Profiles newsletter to receive top news and hot new startups of the week.

VMware on Twitter
Twitter Search »

There are no discussions right now.

Recent Contributors

There are no recent contributors to this company.