SolarWinds CEO and leadership

Progressive CEO and Board member with a 23+ year track record of delivering strong business results in startup, mid-size and large companies. Created and scaled businesses in enterprise software, Cloud/SaaS, Mobile Platforms and Applications, Software Defined Networking, Security, Unified Communications and Collaboration and Service Provider segments.

I am passionate about building innovative, customer focused, collaborative high performance leadership and cross-functional teams. My extensive global experience spans General Management (P&L management), Strategy, Product Development, Services, Operations, Market Development, Strategic alliances, Private Equity, Board memberships, and Mergers and Acquisitions.

Bart Kalsu is an Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer at SolarWinds. He has worked as Senior Director - Finance at RED HAT INC, Senior Audit Manager at Arthur Andersen LLP, and Former Member of the Board of Directors at Athlon Energy. Bart attended Oklahoma State University between 1986 and 1989.

Summary• Transformational Product executive with great track record in: identifying market trends, defining product strategy, launching new products, growing existing business, and creating SaaS/Enterprise business in Cloud, Data, Analytics, Security, and SDx areas.• All-rounded & Highly Results Oriented with experience across all Product functions: P&L Management, Product Management, Go-to-market strategy, Engineering, Business Development, Cloud Alliances, Product & SaaS Ops, User Experience (UX), and M&A.• Startup & Big Company experience: Member of the executive team (Growth & Transformation Companies), Startup founder, Advisor to VCs, PE, and Startups.Product Management & Business Experience• P&L: Led product portfolios generating $300M+ annual bookings. Increased Subscription Revenue from 15% to 45% YoY and Cloud Revenue from 0% to 13% YoY.• GTM: Product-market fit, GTM strategy (mid-market to large enterprise focused aligned with regions/verticals), and build-buy-partner strategy (thru MSSPs/CSPs/SIs/Alliances).• Analyst relations: Strong relationships with Analysts such as Gartner leading to upper right Gartner MQ, Cool vendor, etc. Engineering Execution• Delivered Hybrid Cloud/SaaS/Data/Security Platforms thrice to market within the last 5-years at scale, validated with marquee customers and partners.• Delivered 10+ large scale products, with high quality, under aggressive timelines; rapidly grew them to scale. Examples: Pulse Zero Trust Platform Ecosystem, Veritas’ Data Management Platform, Avni Software Defined Cloud, Juniper Service Deliver Gateway (L4-L7 services), etc.• Transformed Engineering teams to Agile, DevOps, Secure-by-design and Automation; reducing spend by 30% in 12 months, while bringing 99% predictability into release cycles (quarterly feature and monthly maintenance) and increasing feature velocity by 25%.• Provided Best in-class User Experience, Behavior Analytics, and Telemetry as part of the product platforms to re-define customer engagement, adoption and revenue growth.Global Team Management• Highly reputed: in assembling A+ leaders (including VP level) and managing teams (500+) to deliver large scale products across continentsInnovation• 25+ patents• Thought Leadership: Digital Transformation, Cloud, IoT, Data, Analytics, Security, Secure Access, Zero-Trust Access/ZTA, Identity & Access Management/IAM, Cloud Access Security Broker/CASB, MDM, and Secure Web Gateway, Information management, Governance/Compliance, GDPR, Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, VMWare, AI/ML, SaaS/Distributed Platform, etc.