Karthik Rau Email & Phone Number

Berlin, De

Contentful is the intelligent composable content platform that unlocks all of an organization's digital content to deliver impactful customer experiences, making content a strategic business asset. The Contentful Platform, Contentful Studio, and the Contentful Ecosystem combine the flexibility of composable content with the intelligence of AI, empowering digital teams to drive business momentum through collaboration, speed, and scale. Contentful powers innovative content experiences across brands, regions, and channels for organizations around the world, including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500.

San Francisco, California, Us

Acquired by Splunk for $1.05 billion in October 2019Oct 2019 - Feb 2022Focused on integrating the former SignalFx teams, products and technology into Splunk, and supporting the cross-functional strategy behind Observability.Jan 2013 - Oct 2019Led SignalFx as Founder and CEO from company inception until Splunk's acquisition of the company for $1.05 billion in October 2019. We built a pioneering solution for cloud infrastructure and application monitoring, grew the business to support hundreds of customers, scaled the company to ~270 employees across 10 countries, and raised $178.5M from premier investors Andreessen Horowitz, CRV, General Catalyst and Tiger Global Management. We are now the cornerstone of Splunk's developer-oriented product and go-to-market efforts.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

Delphix is a database virtualization software company that does for the data tier what VMware does for servers. As organizations move to virtualize their most mission critical enterprise applications, they need a solution to virtualize the terabytes of data that go alongside their enterprise databases. This need is particularly acute for non-production environments, where development, reporting, and integration projects are typically delayed based on the amount of time and resources required to stand up fresh data environments for several different projects. Delphix provides a unique solution that allows organizations to self-service provision full data environments with a few clicks of the mouse, with no DBA skills required, and all from a shared storage footprint. Organizations can deliver more enterprise application projects on time, quality, and budget, using existing personnel and infrastructure.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

- Member of VMware executive staff from 2004-2009, playing a broad leadership role in the company's growth to ~$1.9B/year in revenues.- Led VMware's worldwide marketing organization from late 2007 - early 2009, managing a worldwide team of ~250 employees across all geographies with an annual marketing budget of ~$75M- Led product management and overall strategy for VMware's server product line (platform + management products) through 2007. Specifically responsible for architecting VMware's management product line strategy and leading PM and go-to-market strategy for the landmark VI3 product suite release, products which drove VMware server sales from less than $100M/year to more than $1.5B/year.- Led several of VMware's early acquisitions and considered several more potential acquisitions as part of my products role.- One of the principal participants in VMware's 2007 IPO, the largest tech IPO of 2007. Co-authored business section of S-1 prospectus and participated in road-show. 08/07 - 02/09: Vice President of Worldwide Marketing09/06 - 08/07: Vice President of Product Management - All Server & Server Mgmt Products12/05 - 09/06: Senior Director of Product Management, Marketing & Alliances - Server Management Products11/04 - 12/05: Director of Product Management, All VMware products12/03 - 11/04: Group Product Manager, Server Management Products07/03 - 12/03: Senior Product Manager, Server Management Products08/02 - 07/03: Product Manager, Server Management Products

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Product manager at Loudcloud from 2000-2002, an early venture into cloud computing led by Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen which was later repurposed into Opsware and ultimately acquired by Hewlett Packard for $1.6B in 2007.