Board Of Directors
Bill Cook - CEO, Greenplum
Prior to Greenplum, Bill served as Executive Vice President, Sales and Service at Penguin Computing, a high-performance computing and Linux systems vendor. Prior to Penguin Computing, Bill spent 19 years at Sun Microsystems, most recently as Senior Vice President of US Sales, in this position he led a field force of 3,500 with revenues in excess of $5 billion. Additionally while at Sun, Bill helped lead the Sun worldwide storage business unit, as well as implementing Sun's Global Account model and strategic sales organization. Previously, Bill held positions at Machine Vision International and Datapoint Corporation.
Tim Guleri - Managing Director, Sierra Ventures
Tim Guleri is a Managing Director of Sierra Ventures, a Menlo Park, California, venture capital fund. Mr. Guleri’s investment focus is Application and Infrastructure Software companies. Additionally, Tim has helped execute on Sierra’s India strategy and investments. Mr Guleri currently serves as a Director of Sourcefire (Nasdaq: FIRE) and private companies including Approva, Greenplum, CodeGreen Networks, Everest Software, MakeMyTrip.com, Steelbox Networks and NebuAd.
Jerry Putnam - Senior Advisor, NYSE Euronext
Jerry Putnam is the former President and Vice Chairman of NYSE Euronext and currently serves as Sr. Advisor to the organization. Mr. Putnam co-founded Archipelago Holdings, a stock and option exchange using only electronic trading, which was acquired by NYSE in 2005. Mr. Putnam was selected as one of the innovators of the 21st century by Time Magazine.
Leo Spiegel - Managing Partner, Mission Ventures
Prior to joining Mission Ventures, Leo Spiegel was President of Digital Island, Inc., a leading provider of global e-business network and content delivery services. Leo joined Digital Island as a result of a merger with Sandpiper Networks, Inc., the world's first content delivery service provider for the Internet, where he was the Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer. In 2000, Leo won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area.
Scott Yara - President and Co-Founder, Greenplum
Prior to Greenplum, Scott served as vice president of Corporate Strategy for Digital Island, a publicly traded hosting and internet services company that was acquired by Cable & Wireless in 2001. Prior to Digital Island, Scott served as vice president of Marketing for Sandpiper Networks, an Internet content delivery services company that merged with Digital Island in 1999. At Sandpiper, Scott helped to create the industry's first content delivery network, a globally distributed computing infrastructure comprised of several thousand Linux servers deployed in more than 50 countries worldwide, and used by many of the industry's largest Internet services including Microsoft and Disney.
