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Mubadala Investment Company — a $302 Billion sovereign investor — manages a diverse portfolio of assets and investments in the United Arab Emirates and abroad, to generate sustainable financial returns for its shareholder, the Government of Abu Dhabi.In my role as a senior operating partner, I led digital transformation, Data & AI, and GTM programs for the Mubadala's Direct Investments platform and its portfolio companies.

Utimaco is a global supplier of cyber security solutions, including on-premises and cloud-based hardware security modules and key management solutions as well as compliance solutions for telecommunication providers in the field of regulation.

EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of almost three decades of delivering consistent and attractive returns across multiple geographies, sectors and strategies. EQT has investment strategies covering all phases of a business’ development, from start-up to maturity. As of closing of the combination with BPEA, EQT had EUR 114 billion in assets under management, within two business segments – Private Capital and Real Assets.I joined EQT as the first US-based member of its Digital leadership team. In my role, I partnered with investment professionals to identify, define and execute trajectory-changing strategies across the global portfolio of companies and new investment opportunities with emphasis on product innovation, software development, enterprise IT, cybersecurity, customer experience and data.

(Sold to PSG in 2022)If you’ve ever created content on the Internet, the chances are you’ve used one of Tiny's products. They deliver the building blocks of great content creation experiences and helped launch Atlassian, Medium, Evernote, and more – Tiny is the maker of TinyMCE, MoxieManager and Tiny Drive.

(Sold to Harness in 2024)Armory provides an enterprise distribution of Spinnaker, the cloud native, open source, continuous delivery platform that creates a paved road for developers to deploy with speed and resilience.

Part Customer Success executive, part business strategist, I helped the company with its product portfolio transition to cloud and directly oversaw customer adoption, retention and growth of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) business in North America.

Lucidworks is an advanced search platform that provides the enterprise-grade capabilities needed to design, develop and deploy intelligent search apps — at any scale.

(Sold to Vista Equity Partners in 2017 and subsequently rebranded as Khoros)Lithium builds trusted relationships between the world’s best brands and their customers, helping people get answers and share their experiences. Customers in more than 34 countries rely on Lithium to help them connect, engage, and understand their total community. With more than 100 million unique monthly visitors over all Lithium communities and another 600 million online profiles scored by Klout, Lithium has one of the largest digital footprints in the world. Using that data and the company’s software, Lithium customers boost sales, reduce service costs, spark innovation, and build long-term brand loyalty and advocacy.As Chief Customer Officer and SVP of Business Development, I was responsible for leading Lithium’s strategic programs to ensure both long-term customer success and the ongoing growth of Lithium's business through its partner ecosystem. I worked closely with our customers and partners in over 20 countries on establishing lasting relationships and driving business outcomes. I had direct responsibility for Lithium’s Business Development, Support and Customer Operations organizations. I was a member of the Executive Staff reporting to the CEO.A few professional achievements:* Our innovative customer success strategy was featured in the Chief Customer Officer 2.0 book by Jeanne Bliss: http://amzn.to/1mQAjBk* Lithium Cohort Benchmarking is based on a robust customer analytics toolkit that my team developed to predict customer behavior, identify retention challenges and surface expansion opportunities. This toolkit has been adopted by a significant part of the company and incorporated into day-to-day business processes: http://bit.ly/1OXsk2n* Lithium formed a strategic alliance with Microsoft and brought to market an integrated social customer engagement solution that combines best-of-breed social community and CRM capabilities: https://prn.to/3WvwkfH

In my role as the Lithium's Chief Customer Officer, I was responsible for leading Lithium’s strategic programs to ensure long-term customer success. I focused on continually enhancing and solidifying Lithium’s customer-centric culture by orchestrating the entire customer value chain across functions and geographies.

In my role as the Lithium's CIO, I was responsible for the company's SaaS platform that supported over 100 million unique monthly visitors, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Worldwide Customer Support and Sustaining Engineering.

(Sold to SolarWinds and is now a part of the full-stack SolarWinds APM Suite, including Pingdom and AppOptics)Loggly was a log management and analytics solution, providing hosted aggregation, analytics, search, and visualization of terabytes of machine data applications, and infrastructure.

(Sold to Bow River Capital in 2024)Accelo is a cloud-based ServOps software tailored specifically for the SMB professional services industry.

Assisted with managing the speaker program at one of the largest information security conferences in the world, Black Hat USA 2010 and 2011.

(Sold its hardware division to Imation in 2011 and its software capabilities to Proofpoint in 2015)Ranked as one of the best venture-funded companies in The Wall Street Journal's "Next Big Thing 2011" survey, IronKey secured data and online access for individuals, enterprises, and governments.I built from the ground up and led numerous corporate functions including Technical Operations, Information Security, Technical Support, Account Management, Business Applications, Information Technology and Open Source Compliance.During my tenure at IronKey, we grew the company from pre-product to over $20M annual revenue and 130 employees. I was a member of the Executive Staff reporting to the CEO.

(Went public on NASDAQ (YDLE) and subsequently got sold to Envestnet in 2015. Envestnet got sold to Bain Capital in 2024)Yodlee created the industry's first, patented, personalized finance platform for global money management. Yodlee is powering cloud-based services for 7 of the top 10 U.S. financial institutions and more than 35 million consumers. During my tenure, I played multiple management roles in Technical Operations, Corporate IT, Security and Support organizations. Highlights:* Responsible for deployment, management and expansion of two mission critical data centers that serviced over six million online users* Managed and successfully completed over 300 infrastructure and client deployment projects, such as datacenter buildouts, migrations and consolidations, client launches and upgrades, enterprise backup and recovery, Storage Area Networks, hardware encryption and key management, system and network monitoring* Led the service delivery function from code-complete to post-launch* Developed numerous operations and information security processes and procedures* Oversaw operations engineering and operations support functions* Built and managed the company’s Corporate IT team with offices in California and Bangalore, India* Developed and oversaw Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery strategies; including planning, processes and procedures, on-site and remote tests, vendor management and audit compliance* Developed and managed a multi-million dollar annual operations budget* Designed, implemented and managed change management processes* Built the first Yodlee security, release management and offshore production support teams and processes* Responsible for vendor contract negotiations and relationship management* Worked closely with Yodlee's marquee clients on new deployments and upgrades* Represented the company during numerous third-party security and operations audits (SAS70, PCI, OCC, BITS FISAP, SysTrust)

Outcome was an early-stage venture-backed startup that developed web applications and service-oriented architecture platform for financial services companies. Their ideas and technology are now carried on by Akana (previously SOA Software).My responsibilities included planning and management of Outcome's partner integration, partner development, technical support and information technology infrastructure.

(Went public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, ultimately reaching a $14 billion market valuation)Intershop is a technology pioneer that produced the world’s first integrated e-commerce software solution for major retail and consumer brands. Originally founded in Germany, it relocated its headquarters to United States and rapidly expanded its global presence, revenue and workforce. * Joined the company's US operations as one of the first members of its IT team* Facilitated hyper growth and expansion that transitioned a small start-up into a global e-commerce powerhouse with over $100 million in annual revenue and 1,000+ employees* Implemented the company's first groupware system, Microsoft Exchange. Went on to roll it out at five international locations and oversee a global groupware management team* Designed and implemented an innovative remote access solution by integrating VPN and Roaming Internet Access technologies. That led to nearly instant ROI and numerous case studies in trade publications such as Windows NT Magazine, Mobile Computing, Telephony and IT World* Acted as a technical integration lead for the corporate M&A activities* Designed, built and supported the infrastructure for the company's first customer summit with over two thousand attendees* Oversaw and successfully completed many enterprise-wide IT projects such as Year 2000 compliance, CRM, business intelligence and expense management