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Steve Herrod

Partner at Juxtapose, Founding team at Lanai

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $500,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,000,000.00

Skills

Cloud Computing
Distributed Systems
Scalability
Virtualization
System Architecture
Software Engineering
Perl
Technical Leadership
Storage
High Performance Computing
Device Drivers
Software Development
Python
Linux
Computer Architecture
VMware
VMware ESX
Enterprise Architecture
Start-ups
IT Strategy

Education

Work Experience

  • Founding Team

    2023

  • Partner

    2023

  • Board Member

    2019

2013

  • Board Member

    2013

2013 - 2023

  • Managing Director

    2013 - 2023

    Board Member Roles: ● Corelight: Aug 2018 - Jan 2023 ● Menlo Security: May 2014 - Jan 2023 ● Prosimo: Jan 2020 - Jan 2023 ● Armorblox: Jul 2018 - Jan 2023 ● Arrcus: Aug 2017 - Jan 2023 ● Espressive: Oct 2016 - Jan 2023 ● Contrast Security: May 2016 - Dec 2022 ● Gitpod: Feb 2021 - Sep 2022 ● Anomali: Nov 2014 - Sep 2022 ● Curai: Feb 2018 - Oct 2022 ● Impira: Aug 2017 - Nov 2022 - SOLD ● Preempt: Jan 2016 - Sep 2020 - SOLD ● RiskRecon: Sep 2015 - Dec 2019 - SOLD ● SignalFx: May 2018 - August 2019 - SOLD ● Zugata: Oct 2016 - Jan 2019 - SOLD ● Catalina Labs: Jan 2016 - Jan 2019 - SOLD ● Datto: Jun 2013 - Dec 2017 - SOLD Co-Host: Equivalent to Magic Podcast 2020 - 2021

2001 - 2013

  • CTO & Sr. VP of R&D

    2008 - 2013

    Member of executive staff responsible for creation and evangelization of VMware's technical strategy. Active participation in 15 acquisitions and company spokesperson with press, partners, analysts, and customers. ● Manage innovation programs, communications, industry standards, and IP strategy. ● General manager for 40-person internal mobile phone start-up ● Named 2009 CTO of the Year by Infoworld ● Named 2009 "Fortune Player of Tech” ● Industry presenter at numerous industry and company events - Keynote at six 10,000+ person events: http://vmworld.com - Keynotes at CloudSlam, Interop, and other international industry events - Author of thought pieces for Barron's, Economist, VirtualStrategy, ... - Several videos on: http://www.youtube.com/user/vmwaretv

  • VP of R&D

    2005 - 2008

    Ran 2,000 person R&D department for several months during leadership transitions ● Created and ran partner engineering group, developing large ecosystem across HW and SW domains ● Drove Virtual Infrastructure 3.x, VMware's $1B datacenter offering ● Participation in company’s acquisition by EMC and subsequent IPO on NYSE

  • Sr. Director of R&D

    2002 - 2005

    Took over ESX Server, storage, performance, and networking teams (~200 people) ● Drove ESX Server 2.x, company's first enterprise infrastructure offering

  • Director of R&D

    2001 - 2002

    Managed virtual machine monitor team

Transmeta Corp

1998 - 2001

  • Sr. Director of Software Engineering

    1998 - 2001

    Responsible for development, test, and certification of "Code Morphing Software" ● IPO'd in 2000 and had largest first day growth until Google's IPO ● Crusoe was named one of IEEE Spectrum's microchips that shook the world Prior Roles at SGI/MIPs, Convex Computer, EDS, and Northern Telecom/BNR. Outside of Work ● Board member of Peninsula School in Menlo Park - Finance and Development committees ● Active in local and federal education initiatives, particularly around progressive education and STEM ● EMC Technical Advisory Board ● Fortune magazine's Brainstorm TECH panel ● Co-owner of Cafe Venetia in Palo Alto ● Father of 3 and active athletics coach

SGI/MIPs

1997 - 1998

  • Engineer

    1997 - 1998

    MIPs Architecture