JW

Jeff Williams

Partner at Bain Capital Ventures

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $100,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000,000.00

Skills

Cloud Computing
SaaS
Solution Selling
Enterprise Software
Network Security
Strategic Partnerships
Go-to-market Strategy
Salesforce.com
Virtualization
Data Center
Account Management
Business Development
Security

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2016

    Partner focused on building and scaling early stage companies through every phase of growth from $0 to 1B run rate. Primarily focus on CyberSecurity and SAAS markets. Work closely with entrepreneurs on deploying calculated playbooks and go-to-market strategies across our portfolio companies to ensure greater success and winning culture.

2010 - 2016

  • Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

    2010 - 2016

    Scaled FireEye Globally. Took bookings from $0 to over a 1B run rate. Hired over 600 people in 60 countries. Built an amazing sales team with incredible culture that led to a successful IPO.

  • SVP WW Sales

    2003 - 2010

    IronPort Systems leader in email and web security transformed the security gateway market. Built out and led Sales and Operations from $0 Bookings to over128M in 2005 which lead to an acquisition by Cisco Systems (CSCO) of 830M. Stayed at Cisco for 2.5 years as Vice President of Innovative Technologies where we grew IronPort bookings to over 400M.

  • SVP Sales

    2002 - 2003

    IntruVert Networks was the industries first Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). Scaled early stage company through a successful acquisition by McAfee.

Allnet Communications / Frontier Communications / GlobalCenter / Exodus Communications

1992 - 2002

  • VP Sales

    1992 - 2002

    GlobalCenter was the leader in Complex Web Hosting and Security. Grew revenues from $0 to 500M ARR and successfully acquired by Exodus Communications for 6.5B.