Simon is the CEO and founder of HYCU, the world's fastest growing multi-cloud data protection company. Simon has more than 20 year's experience in go-to-market strategy development, product marketing and channel sales management for the tech industry. An MBA graduate, he has worked with leading companies such as Comtrade Group, Forrester Research, Putnam Investments and Omgeo. In Jan. 2016, Simon led the Citrix acquisition of Comtrade Software, a company providing management packs for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM).Simon founded, HYCU in 2018 as a pioneering enterprise software company specializing in data backup, recovery and monitoring for multi-cloud environments. In March of 2021 HYCU received an $87.5M A round investment led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV). In June of 2022 HYCU received an $53M B round with existing investors BCV, Acrew Capital and new investors Atlassian Ventures, Cisco Investments. Okta Ventures closed out the Series B in October of 2022 to bring the total investment to date to $140M. Simon received an MBA in international business from IE (Instituto de Empresa) Business School and an undergraduate degree in operations technology from Northeastern University. Held both Series 6 and 63 licenses and is the author of “John’s Book,” an acclaimed full length novel published in 2004. His latest book, "Averting the SaaS Data Apocalypse, released in September 2023, quickly became an Amazon Best Seller and is available on Amazon.Simon is a board member at Uncornered, an active member of YPO, and a Research Fellow at Boston College. Areas of expertise include: market expansion, marketing and business plan design, marketing strategy, new business development, international expansion, emerging markets, public sector, private sector, go-to-market strategy, digital marketing, above the line marketing, below the line marketing, product management, marketing communications, product strategy, sales and marketing alignment, consulting, people management, lead generation, lead development, driving revenue, strategic alliance building, government liaison, rebranding, direct marketing and direct sales.