Savinay Berry

Executive Vice President, Product and Engineering

2021

Chief Product and Technology officer. Part of the executive leadership team at Vonage. Lead AI, product, engineering, and cloud services, with an inspiring mission of accelerating the world's ability to connect. Driving the next generation of human and bot communications powered through AI. Turning notifications into conversations wherever you are. In July 2022, Ericsson acquired Vonage for $6.2B. Vonage is now part of Ericsson's Enterprise business.

Senior Vice President, Cloud Services

2019 - 2021

Reporting to the CEO, part of the Executive Leadership Team at OpenText. Leading a team of 2500+, responsible for cloud strategy, services and business, serving over 75,000 customers worldwide.

Vice President, Products and Engineering

2017 - 2018

Lead cloud products and engineering at OpenText. Responsible for driving a micro-services based architecture platform, enabling new cloud native applications that drive the intelligent and connected enterprise.

Vice President, Product Management

2015 - 2017

EMC's content division was acquired by opentext for $1.6B in Jan 2017. Responsible for the $500M+ content management product portfolio. Lead a team of rockstar product managers and designers for SaaS, mobile, web and on premise products including Documentum, Captiva, Leap and other enterprise productivity applications. Also lead partnerships and business development for inorganic growth. Developing products to accelerate the Digital Enterprise journey.

Director, Advanced Product and Technology

2013 - 2015

Lead all advanced products and services for Intuit - including wearables, mobile, intelligent systems, payments etc - focused on small businesses and consumers.

Product Leader

2013 - 2014

Lead product team at Intuit responsible for core SaaS financial management products and new mobile products for SMBs.

Vice President, Product Management

2011 - 2012

Empowered Careers (Acquired by Qualcomm) was a highly funded mobile education startup ($15M in funding from leading VCs Granite and Interwest). • Defined the vision and direction for industry’s first “mobile-only” social learning platform on an iPad for the consumer. • Drove strategic planning and tactical execution of the full product lifecycle with UCLA as a partner. • Designed, developed and launched an entire online college from scratch on an iPad app, including content development, app design and enabling social collaboration in a mobile environment. • Led strategic relationship with Apple, Amazon and other content partners to develop the end-end mobile experience. • Co-led design of the BI platform to uncover behavioral patterns with a goal of providing personalized content. • Helped grow the team from 15 to 70 people, including building and leading a team of product managers and UX designers, and developed an agile & “lean startup” culture • Hands-on creation of wireframes, story-boards, low and hi fidelity prototypes, and user research to enable rapid prototyping and product-market fit. • Responsible for Net Promoter Score of 70+ for all paying customers based on product usage. See what others are saying about Empowered: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryhannon/2012/07/22/want-an-encore-career-education-tap-your-ipad/ http://www.nextavenue.org/article/2012-11/new-college-program-launch-your-second-career ..and watch the ad: http://www.empowered.com/tv-ad

Strategic Advisor

2011 - 2012

Based in San Francisco, Localmind is the leading mobile location Q&A platform. Helped the company in a successful acquisition by AirBnB.

Principal

2008 - 2011

Granite Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm with over $1 billion assets under management. www.granitevc.com • Lead investments in mobile, cloud and consumer internet companies. • Advised and worked closely with several companies for product strategy and roadmaps from inception to revenue. - Extensive network of startups and venture capital in silicon valley. • Invested in Localmind (acquired by AirBnB), a leading mobile local Q&A platform on iOS and Android. Became interim chief strategy officer for the company and helped in negotiating a successful exit. • Worked closely with Smule, a leading mobile gaming company creating a music social network on mobile. Smule’s apps (Ocarina, Glee, I am T Pain etc.) continue to be top selling apps in the app store. • On the board at and worked closely with Bunchball, the leading gamification platform for mobile and internet. Worked with management team to devise growth and product strategy, resulting in significant growth and follow on funding for the company. • Invested in and worked closely with Hytrust – the leading cloud security and compliance provider for private cloud deployments. • Invested in and on the board of Crowd Science, an audience measurement and targeting platform for publishers. The company was acquired by YuMe. • On the board at Episodic (acq by Google), a video CMS platform. The company was acquired by Google, resulting a positive return on investment.

Associate

2007 - 2008

• Created and drove investment thesis for consumer, mobile infrastructure and application investments.

Kauffman Fellows Program Finalist Class 13

2008 - 2008

Summer Associate

2007 - 2007

$150M early stage Venture Capital firm investing in software, digital media and technology enabled services. Responsibilities included sector analysis and thesis development, sourcing, qualifying and doing due diligence on new investments, while also working with current portfolio companies.