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Rajiv is the President and CEO of Nutanix. He joined in December, 2020 from VMware, where he served as Chief Operating Officer of Products and Cloud Services. Prior to this role, Rajiv led VMware’s Networking and Security business, one of the fastest-growing units in the company, as executive vice president and general manager. Before joining VMware, he served as Executive Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure and Networking at Broadcom, where he established Broadcom as a leader in data center, enterprise and carrier networking. In his prior General Manager roles at Cisco, he led multibillion dollar product lines in switching, data center and storage and optical networking. Earlier in his career, he held various leadership positions at Nortel, Tellabs and IBM. Rajiv earned his BTech in Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology and his Master’s and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow and holds 36 patents, primarily in optical networking.

Mikkel Svane is an author and entrepreneur. He wrote a book called "Startupland" and currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Zendesk, which he cofounded in 2007. Svane was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1971.

Daniel Springer serves as CEO of DocuSign where he leads more than 4,000 employees worldwide to empower organizations of every size and industry to modernize their systems of agreement with the DocuSign Agreement Cloud, helping them make every agreement 100% digital. Springer has more than 25 years of executive leadership and experience in driving innovation and hyper growth across technology and, specifically, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry. Prior to DocuSign, Springer served as Chairman and CEO at Responsys for ten years where he transformed and scaled the business from private start up to the leading cross-channel marketing automation platform globally as a publicly traded company. Springer then led the sale of Responsys to Oracle for $1.6 billion. During his tenure, Springer was honored as both a Bay Area Most Admired CEO and Best CEO. Previously, he was Managing Director of Modem Media and also served as CEO at Telleo, Inc., CMO at NextCard, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He started his career at DRI/McGraw-Hill and Pacific Telesis. Springer holds an MBA from Harvard University and an AB in Mathematics and Economics from Occidental College. Springer serves or has served as a board member at both public and private companies, including iCIMS, Ansira, YuMe, ELOAN (Banco Popular), Heighten, Persado, and eGroups (Yahoo!), as well as at nonprofits, including YearUp, The Urban School, Shop.org, AdTech, The Randall Museum and The San Francisco Friends School.

Leslie Stretch joined the Board of Directors in February of 2021. Mr. Stretch, who has had a storied career leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) organizations, is currently president and chief executive officer at customer experience (CX) management leader, Medallia, which he took public in 2019. Mr. Stretch joined Medallia in 2018 and guided the company to a successful IPO in July 2019. The company has emerged as a leader in the Customer and Employee Experience management platform market; in December, the company was named a Leader in Gartner’s first Magic Quadrant for Voice of the Customer and has an enterprise value north of $7 billion. Prior to Medallia, Mr. Stretch was the President and CEO of Callidus Software, an early leader in the sales commissions space, for 11 years. Callidus was acquired by SAP for $2.6B in 2018.

Career summary: Ramin is an experienced strategic & operating leader of both small & large organizations, has a strong track record of developing innovative products in both emerging and mature markets and has successfully led & integrated multiple technology tuck-ins and company acquisitions. With 20 years of industry experience he has proven track record for incubating & growing significant new & emerging businesses w/in leading companies. He also serves on the boards of various startup companies and "has quickly become known as a visionary product leader in the valley and the industry".Ramin is currently the President & CEO of Sumo Logic, an industry leading SaaS based cloud analytics company backed by great VC's and has an impressive list of customers and partners. Previously, Ramin was the Sr. Vice President & GM at VMware where he developed the product and business strategy & led the fastest growing business. Previously, Ramin held multiple Executive roles w/ leading companies such as HP Software, Mercury Software, Tibco Software, iPlanet Software, AOL & Netscape. Employment Summary:Senior Vice President & General, Cloud Management Business UnitRamin was responsible for the developing VMware's industry leading Cloud Mgmt Business unit.Vice President of Products and Strategy, HP SoftwareRamin was responsible for ~$1.6B software business and his organization/business consisted of the Openview, Mercury, Opsware, Peregrine and other software suite of products. Director of Products & Solutions - Tibco SoftwareResponsible for all product marketing, management and industry/solutions marketing for three product lines.Product Line Marketing Manager - iPlanet Software (AOL/SUN Alliance) Responsible for product marketing of the e-commerce suite of products.Product Line Marketing Manager - Netscape CommunicationsResponsible for product marketing of the e-commerce suite of products