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Took a sabbatical to focus on personal passions such as wildlife exploration and preservation, and my cooking blog.

Lead the go to market team for the emerging Recruiting Solutions product line within Google Cloud.

Participated in all aspects of building the company and the product: from product strategy and roadmap, to recruiting, business planning and fundraising, to selling to the initial set of customers. bebop got acquired by Google for $397M.

- 7+ year tenure as one of the most recognized product and go-to-market leaders at VMware. - Played pivotal leadership roles in steering VMware's flagship server virtualization product line to cross the chasm and become the de-facto standard in every datacenter, growing revenue >10X from $400M/year to $5bn/year, and customer base increase from 5K to 300K. - 2011 to 2013 led product strategy and execution for all cloud infrastructure products (server virtualization + software defined storage and networking). Driving force behind the integration of all cloud infrastructure product into a suite. Shipped the first two versions of VMware's vCloud Suite. - 2005 to 2013 led go-to-market strategy (incl. packaging & pricing, positioning, messaging, product collateral, sales and channel enablement content, analyst and press evangelism, product launches) for all server virtualization products. Delivered all product launches from ESX2.5, to VI3, vSphere 4.x and vSphere 5.x- Built and led a high performing team of 140+ product managers, product marketers and technical marketers07/11 - 07/13: Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure Products. 01/09 - 07/11: Vice President, Product Marketing, server virtualization and management products12/06 - 12/08: Senior Director, Product Marketing, server virtualization and management products10/05 - 12/06: Director, Product Marketing, server virtualization products