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Menlo Park, CA, US

Direct a16z strategy, finance, accounting, operations, IT, tax, real estate and security teams.

Drove investment strategy, planning and operations for VMware, including capital allocation, strategic planning, emerging technology FP&A, M&A finance and integration, corporate strategy, real estate and workplace, global sites, strategic sourcing and pricing.Recent achievements: oversaw the acquisitions of Pivotal and Carbon Black (public company.

Responsible for investment strategy and planning for VMware, including corporate strategy, capital allocation, strategic planning, emerging technology FP&A (Office of CTO, blockchain, NFV), M&A finance integration. Created workforce planning effort for VMware's talent (~30,000 FTE) and footprint (~100 locations).

Lead the finance function for the SDDC (software defined data center) business, including VMware’s products in compute (vSphere), networking (NSX), management (vRealize), storage (vSAN) and converged infrastructure (EVO). Responsibilities include financial reporting and analysis, strategy, budgeting, controllership and M&A across the businesses.

Led the finance team for the networking and security business unit, including both NSX (resulting from VMware's acquisition of Nicira) and vCNS products for the software defined networking market. Core accountabilities include all FP&A, controllership and sales finance activities for the entity, as well as end-to-end P&L and balance sheet management and.

Redmond, Washington, US

Built and led direct revenue and business model teams across all consumer applications and services, including Skype, Lync, Bing, Outlook.com (Hotmail) and Skydrive. Responsible for the strategic and finance analytics to help drive the unified consumer portfolio forward, including FP&A, long-range planning, business case analytics and long-term business.

Redmond, WA, US

Led revenue and marketing operating expense teams for Skype Division, including Lync (unified communications), Skype (direct consumer revenue) and Advertising (indirect revenue from connected users). Responsible for developing business cases, creating financial and non-financial metrics to assess divisional health and proactively identifying and capturing.

San Francisco, California, US

Created and executed the corporate strategy and business support function for Dolby ($1B revenue technology company that enables premium audio for movies, television and music; NYSE: DLB). Worked closely with CEO, CFO and executives to develop, align and execute vision, goals, departmental imperatives and investment priorities. Built multiple end-to-end.

Redmond, Washington, US

Led FP&A team for $5 billion Business Productivity category (Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Office 365, Project). Built top-rated FP&A team to deliver analytics and insight into long-range planning, monthly, quarterly and annual forecasting and reporting for software portfolio. Identified and led strategy creation and execution discussions, including organic.

Redmond, Washington, US

Directed teams to create business strategy and coordinate M&A for all products, including productivity (Office, Project), business (SharePoint, Exchange, Lync) and enterprise applications (Dynamics ERP and CRM). Led cross-functional teams to create business plans for several products. Helped allocate resources to align market and competitive analyses with.

Firm description: Boutique sell-side M&A investment bank targeting middle-market clients. Acquired by Wells Fargo in 2006.Managed client relationships through M&A processes with owners, CEOs and CFOs. Directed teams to create analytical, marketing and due diligence materials; marketed clients to acquirers. Managed analysts, recruiting. Closed four.

Mba, Finance, Strategy, Marketing

Ba, Economics