Barracuda Networks CEO and leadership

As co-founder and CTO at Barracuda Networks, Zach leads the innovation and development of Barracuda Networks’ solutions. Prior to Barracuda Networks, Zach was co-founder and vice president of engineering for Affinity Path, a self-service, private label and profitable DSL/dial-up ISP with more than 4,000 partners. Prior to Affinity Path, Zach was co-founder and CTO of Spinway Inc., the fastest growing ISP in history reaching eight million customers in just eight months (acquired by Kmart Corporation). During his tenure at Spinway, Zach was the lead developer of the Spinway architecture, one of the world's largest client server applications at that time. He has also worked as a software development and architectural software design consultant for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Computer Sciences Corporation, Cadence Design Systems, and Motorola Inc. Zach received a B.S. in mathematics and computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Zach was a 2007 Ernst & Young “Technology Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California” award recipient.

Diane Honda is a Board Member at Java Joy and Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel, & Secretary at BARRACUDA NETWORKS INC and is based in Santa Clara, California. She has worked as Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary at Extreme Networks; Director, Legal Affairs at RIVERSTONE NETWORKS INC; and Managing Attorney, Financial Services Organization at HP. Diane studied at Santa Clara University School of Law until 1996 and Carnegie Mellon University until 1987.

Energetic and results-driven Marketing Executive with demonstrated success growing SaaS businesses, in both B2B and consumer products. Track record of driving exceptional growth in both large and small companies through highly effective go-to-market strategy, planning and execution. Skilled at hiring, developing and retaining top talent. Recognized as an outstanding team leader and communicator. Best fit are cultures that value great consumer experiences and embrace analytics and data-driven decision making. Key achievements:

- Doubled Citrix SaaS revenue in 3.5 years.

- Improved customer retention rates by 12 points by converting online business from credit card trial to no credit card trial, while introducing freemium.

- Managed the Norton brand, building it into a highly successful consumer brand and one of the most recognized high-tech brands in the world.

- Grew Symantec's Norton business from $350M to $2B.

- Built e-commerce marketing team that achieved a 30% increase in qualified traffic, and a 65% improvement in conversion rate in the first year.

- Achieved 100% retention rate of top talent and employee engagement scores well above high-performing technology company benchmarks.

- Created and led a successful company-wide initiative to contain a major competitor’s traction when it entered the consumer security market. Within 3 years of launch, the competitor abandoned their sales efforts.

Specialties: Demand generation; customer acquisition; brand architecture, strategy and management; ecommerce marketing; product marketing; product management; SaaS products and businesses; customer insights; customer marketing; positioning and messaging; multi-channel marketing; customer acquisition; data-driven marketing; subscription models; segmentation; strategic business planning; new product launches; global marketing; consumer marketing; small business marketing; public relations; analyst relations; communications; global field marketing; SEO/SEM; social media

As co-founder and CTO at Barracuda Networks, Zach leads the innovation and development of Barracuda Networks’ solutions. Prior to Barracuda Networks, Zach was co-founder and vice president of engineering for Affinity Path, a self-service, private label and profitable DSL/dial-up ISP with more than 4,000 partners. Prior to Affinity Path, Zach was co-founder and CTO of Spinway Inc., the fastest growing ISP in history reaching eight million customers in just eight months (acquired by Kmart Corporation). During his tenure at Spinway, Zach was the lead developer of the Spinway architecture, one of the world's largest client server applications at that time. He has also worked as a software development and architectural software design consultant for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Computer Sciences Corporation, Cadence Design Systems, and Motorola Inc. Zach received a B.S. in mathematics and computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Zach was a 2007 Ernst & Young “Technology Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California” award recipient.

As co-founder and CTO at Barracuda Networks, Zach leads the innovation and development of Barracuda Networks’ solutions. Prior to Barracuda Networks, Zach was co-founder and vice president of engineering for Affinity Path, a self-service, private label and profitable DSL/dial-up ISP with more than 4,000 partners. Prior to Affinity Path, Zach was co-founder and CTO of Spinway Inc., the fastest growing ISP in history reaching eight million customers in just eight months (acquired by Kmart Corporation). During his tenure at Spinway, Zach was the lead developer of the Spinway architecture, one of the world's largest client server applications at that time. He has also worked as a software development and architectural software design consultant for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Computer Sciences Corporation, Cadence Design Systems, and Motorola Inc. Zach received a B.S. in mathematics and computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Zach was a 2007 Ernst & Young “Technology Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California” award recipient.

BJ joined Palo Alto Networks in August 2021. As president, BJ oversees the company’s go-to-market functions, including sales, support, consulting, business development and operations, and partnerships.

Previously, BJ served as president and CEO of Barracuda Networks, leading the company’s IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, as well as the strategic acquisitions of SignNow, Intronis, Sonian and PhishLine. Prior to joining Barracuda, BJ held multiple business unit and sales and marketing leadership roles at EMC, including president of EMC's Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) Division.

BJ earned an engineering degree from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.