Charlie Giancarlo has served as CEO of Pure Storage since August 2017. He has a three-decade track record of driving growth and innovation at leading global technology companies. Before joining Pure, Charlie served as Managing Director, Head of Value Creation and later Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners from 2007 to 2015, where he focused on business improvement and investment opportunities across strategic and operational initiatives for Silver Lake’s portfolio companies.
Prior to Silver Lake, for over a decade Charlie served in senior executive roles at Cisco Systems, including Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer. At Cisco, Charlie led Cisco’s multi-product growth, and was at the forefront of the Company’s R&D efforts for all product lines, with entry into new markets, including IP Telephony, WiFi, VPNs, TelePresence, and the SMB market.
Charlie received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Brown University, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
David Hatfield (a.k.a. “Hat”) has been in an executive management role at Pure since joining as President in January 2013. Dave is responsible for leading all go-to-market strategy and execution globally, including sales, solutions engineering, customer and partner success, channels and alliances, and the marketing and business development functions within Pure. Dave has been instrumental to Pure’s growth – as the company has scaled revenues from single digit millions and looks to target $1 billion in FY18, and the employee base has grown from less than 100 to the now thousands of Puritans worldwide -- faster than any other storage systems company in history.
With over 25 years of experience building high performance teams at innovative software and cloud infrastructure companies including Akamai Technologies, VERITAS Software, Symantec, Limelight Networks and others, Dave has a wealth of experience in successfully navigating hyper-growth and profitability. He has participated in 3 successful IPO’s (all remain independent companies to this day) and one of the largest enterprise software mergers in history.
Dave is an investor in many next generation technology companies and is a member of the PureGood Foundation Board of Directors.
Tim Riitters serves as CFO for Pure Storage, and leads the company’s financial and accounting operations worldwide. Tim joins Pure Storage from Google, where he spent 10 years in finance and was responsible for overseeing the company’s annual planning and budgeting processes. Additionally, he led the finance team responsible for predicting revenue trends and increasing revenue opportunities. Earlier in his career at Google, Tim was based in Dublin, Ireland and oversaw the company’s European financial operations, and served as CFO of its European payments business.
Prior to Google, Tim served as a product manager in Siebel Systems' business intelligence applications group and helped this team drive triple digit year over year growth in revenue. Tim began his career at Deloitte where he served both as a consulting manager and auditor and specialised in business intelligence application development, financial systems selection and implementation, business process redesign and M&A auditing and accounting.
Tim holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management (with Honors), and a Bachelor of Science in business from the University of Minnesota (with Honors).
Joe FitzGerald serves as VP, and General Counsel for Pure Storage and is responsible for overseeing and managing legal matters for Pure. With over 20 years of high technology related legal experience, Joe joins Pure after almost 12 years at Symantec (via the VERITAS Software acquisition), where he served as Senior Vice President, Legal & Public Affairs. During his time at Symantec, Joe successfully built a world-class IP program, growing Symantec’s patent portfolio from a literal handful of patents to almost 2000 today. In addition to active involvement in every major strategic transaction, Joe managed the technology licensing, product support, litigation, IP, and brand protection legal teams as well as the Global Government Affairs team that works with governments around the world on cyber security and other regulatory issues. In addition, Joe handled the strategic antitrust and competition related legal issues for this Fortune 500 software company.
Prior to Symantec, Joe worked in-house at a number of Silicon Valley companies including New Focus, Sun Microsystems and Nikon Research Corporation of America. Prior to Nikon, Joe was in private practice at Graham and James in Los Angeles. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University, and a JD from Catholic University of America.
Johanna Jackman is a globetrotting, results-oriented leader with an unrelenting passion for enhancing team and business performance. Johanna believes achievable scale is made by leaders who elevate company culture, include employees in the journey, and never stray from their vision. That is why she joined Pure.
Prior to becoming a Puritan, Johanna was Vice President, HR at LinkedIn. Joining post-IPO, she was responsible for scaling and managing various HR functions from hyper-growth to a mature business. During her tenure, she helped create a talent platform that saw a 10x employee base grow to 10,000. A core focus also included an external pivot, in partnership with sales, to deliver innovative HR products and solutions to customers.
Johanna’s experience also includes time at Microsoft where she specialised in talent management and business partnership for several years holding key roles in Seattle, EMEA and Australia. Johanna earned her bachelor’s degree in Business at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
John "Coz" Colgrove was one of the founding engineers at VERITAS Software (merged with Symantec in 2005), where his 20-year career culminated as Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for the company's Data Center Management Group. Coz was the primary architect for the hugely successful VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) and VERITAS File System (VxFS), and later served in various other engineering, management, and consultative roles. During his time at VERITAS, Coz became one of the industry's foremost experts on optimising I/O streams and data structures for the unique idiosyncrasies of rotational hard drives, a challenge he's now re-solving for solid-state Flash memory. Prior to VERITAS, Coz was with Amdahl Corporation, where he was a key contributor to the development of the UTS mainframe UNIX operating system kernel.
After leaving Symantec in 2008 to pursue personal interests, he joined Sutter Hill Ventures in the role of Entrepreneur in Residence. It was there he observed the growing acceptance of solid-state storage by enterprises that led him to co-found Pure Storage with John Hayes, with the goal of fully exploiting the advantages of the new technology. Coz is a graduate of Rutgers University, and holds over 70 patents in the areas of computer system and reliable data storage design.
Todd Engle serves as VP, Operations for Pure Storage, and is responsible for the company's overall strategic business operations, overseeing product forecasting, manufacturing and supply chain vendor relations. Todd joins Pure Storage after 12 years at Xiotech, where he served as VP of manufacturing. Under Todd's direction, Xiotech successfully expanded its global manufacturing operations, implemented an improved supply chain management system and streamlined its order fulfillment processes, achieving 99-percent on-time delivery and 95-percent production forecast accuracy rates.
Prior to Xiotech, Todd served as director of business operations at Computer Network Technologies, where he successfully automated the company's sales, revenue and production forecasting systems. He holds a BA in accounting from Metropolitan State University.
Todd Forsythe joined Pure Storage as Chief Marketing Officer in 2017 to continue amplifying Pure’s differentiated brand as the company expands its offering to new customers around the globe. Todd has a passion for combining creative innovation with intense analytical capacity. His experience in business-to-business marketing spans 30 years and he most recently served as SVP, Digital Marketing at Dell Technologies. He has also led Corporate Marketing functions at Dell EMC, Oracle and Salesforce.com. He started his career at Foote, Cone and Belding Advertising, has earned three business-to-business industry awards and is a board member for high-tech companies.
Todd holds a degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.
Colin Mead has more than two decades of international support and services leadership experience in the high tech industry, supporting global enterprise, government and managed services IT environments. He joins Pure Storage from Riverbed Technology where he was the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Support. Colin was responsible for all aspects of its $450M post sales support business including technical support, logistics, renewals, support partner program and system operations. While in this role, he was awarded the Technology Services Industry Association's (TSIA) highest award for customer service excellence four years running, in addition to being recognised by JD Power for providing an "outstanding customer service experience."
Colin is a graduate of Thames Valley University in the UK and St Mary's in Moraga, CA. He also held executive positions at Mirapoint and N.E.T.
Dan serves as Pure’s Vice President of Americas Sales. Prior to this role, he was responsible for Pure’s West and Central sales teams. Dan is a 20+ year veteran executive with experience in successfully leading global and regional teams varying from start-ups to large technology organisations. With a track record of growing markets both domestically and internationally, Dan excels at developing passionate, high performance sales teams.
Prior to joining Pure, Dan held several executive sales leadership roles, most recently serving as SVP, Global Sales at SOASTA, where he led the team from inception to operating in the Americas, EMEA, and APAC and ultimately to a successful M&A exit. Additional leadership roles include VP of North America at Limelight Networks through an IPO, West leader at Symantec, and VP of Sales at Gartner.
Matt Kixmoeller is a storage veteran who saw first-hand the last major storage technology media upgrade: the move from tape to disk in the backup market. Matt was Vice President of enterprise product management for Symantec's Information Management products, including the NetBackup and Enterprise Vault. Matt oversaw product strategy and vision, engineering direction, and go-to-market activities for this $1B+ global product line. During his tenure, Matt also held similar roles managing other Symantec products such as the Storage Foundation and CommandCentral Storage.
Matt joined Symantec in 2005 as part of the merger with VERITAS Software Corporation. Prior to joining VERITAS Software, he was co-founder of Centrata, a leading provider of IT service management software. He has also held positions with Adaptec and Gemini Consulting (now Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young). Matt holds a degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Yousuf Khan is CIO of Pure Storage. As the first to hold the role, Yousuf has helped Pure Storage scale infrastructure and processes through the fastest growth of any systems company in history. In addition to his instrumental role in the expansion and management of Pure’s internal infrastructure, Yousuf serves as a technical customer advocate, working closely with prospects and partners to provide strategic insight into challenging IT environments.
With more than 15 years in the industry, Yousuf brings with him expensive experience in building infrastructure and application development. Through constant, targeted engagement with CIOs and other IT decision makers, Yousuf helps shape future generations of Pure Storage innovation by providing direct, practical feedback from industry peers. A frequent speaker, Yousuf’s areas of expertise include emerging solutions like public cloud, private cloud and SaaS, with a specific focus on how successful CIOs have strategically combined those solutions with modernised onpremises storage to build the strategic infrastructure of tomorrow.
Prior to joining Pure Storage, Yousuf was the CIO of Qualys. The first to hold the position post-IPO, Yousuf led corporate infrastructure, IT security, business applications and sales operation. He also served as CIO of Hult International Business School, where he led global systems and established worldwide infrastructure across five continents. He graduated with a degree in Business Management from Kings College London.
Kevin leads our continued investments in penetrating Global 1000 Enterprises, expanding and deepening our strategic alliances across leading Independent Software Vendors (ISV’s), Hardware companies and Global Systems Integrators and expanding our rapidly growing Service Provider (think cloud computing) relationships, globally. Kevin has 19 years in executive roles at EMC and IO, including leading Global Accounts, OEM, Alliances and Systems Integrator GTM teams and serving as the Head of Operations and Integration for Isilon Systems. He has deep experience in delivering a consistent, global customer experience for customers, in creating leverage through the technology ecosystem and in rapidly scaling businesses from hundreds of millions to billions. He'll also serve as our lead executive on our expanding presence along the east coast, and will be based out of NYC.
Michael Sotnick is a channel veteran and was most recently Executive Vice President and Channel Chief at Moovweb. Prior to Moovweb, Michael was Vice President of Worldwide Channels and Alliances at Quest Software (acquired by Dell). He also served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at ActivIdentity, where he was responsible for all customer-facing operations including management of the direct sales and channel team.
Before joining ActivIdentity, Michael was the Senior Vice President of Small and Midsize Enterprise for SAP America, Inc. and was responsible for defining and executing SAP’s channel and partner strategy. Additionally, he was the architect and execution leader of SAP America’s multi-dimensional coverage model for this customer segment. This includes oversight of the SAP reseller channel and related operations.
Prior to SAP, Michael served as Vice President of Partner Sales for VERITAS Software
Corporation (acquired by Symantec in 2005). At VERITAS, Michael established the global multi-tier channel strategy and managed North American Partner Sales. He is a graduate of the University of Hartford in Connecticut.
James Petter joined Pure after 16 highly successful years as a sales leader in EMEA, with specific focus on the UK and Ireland on global account programs for companies including EMC, Cisco, Telstra and Coca Cola. James brings strong operational discipline to Pure Storage, with a proven ability to implement and execute sales strategies that support high growth and high margins. Throughout his tenure James has built a business based on 100% channel in the Commercial marketplace, has created a highly successful business in Public Sector in the UK, and personally has served as an Advisor to the central government.
A graduate of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, James served as an officer in the 2nd Royal Green Jackets for six years. He also holds a BSc from the University of Surrey and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management Studies from Bristol University.
Alp joins Pure Storage from Polycom, where he served as the president of Polycom Asia Pacific and Japan, running all sales and marketing, service and support operations across the region. Previously he was the vice president of the EMC Backup and Recovery Solution and Data Computing Division in EMC APJ, after the Data Domain acquisition where he led the team across the region. Before this, Alp ran the Channels business at EMC and was well known as the architect and driver behind EMC’s aggressive move into emerging and commercial markets through the channel from 2006 to 2009. His 25 years of industry experience also includes positions at Teradata, Oracle Corporation Australia and NCR Corporation.
Wilson joined Pure Storage in 2014 and is the VP of Latin America. Prior to Pure, Grava was responsible for Sales, Pre-Sales, Sales Ops, Marketing and Channel for Latin America & the Caribbean at NetApp. Before joining NetApp in 2011, Grava was the VP for Latin America at Symantec, a leader in security and systems management solutions. Previously, Grava was responsible for McAfee’s operations in LatAm. His career began at CA Technologies, where he held technical, Marketing, Acquisitions, Education and International Channel management positions. Grava holds an Executive MBA from ESPM and a BSc in Data Processing from the Universidade Mackenzie, both in Brazil.
Charlie Giancarlo has served as CEO of Pure Storage since August 2017. He has a three-decade track record of driving growth and innovation at leading global technology companies. Before joining Pure, Charlie served as Managing Director, Head of Value Creation and later Senior Advisor at Silver Lake Partners from 2007 to 2015, where he focused on business improvement and investment opportunities across strategic and operational initiatives for Silver Lake’s portfolio companies.
Prior to Silver Lake, for over a decade Charlie served in senior executive roles at Cisco Systems, including Chief Technology Officer and Chief Development Officer. At Cisco, Charlie led Cisco’s multi-product growth, and was at the forefront of the Company’s R&D efforts for all product lines, with entry into new markets, including IP Telephony, WiFi, VPNs, TelePresence, and the SMB market.
Charlie received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Brown University, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
Scott Dietzen is Chairman of the Board of Pure Storage and served as the Company’s CEO from 2010 to 2017. Under his leadership as CEO, Pure grew to thousands of employees and completed an IPO in 2015. Dietzen is a four-time successful entrepreneur with WebLogic, Zimbra, and Transarc. Before Pure, he was President and CTO of Zimbra, a vendor of open source messaging and collaboration software. Zimbra (now part of VMware) was a pioneer of the Web 2.0 and Open Core paradigms. Zimbra was originally acquired by Yahoo!, where Dietzen served as interim SVP of Communications and Communities. Prior to Zimbra, Dietzen was CTO of BEA Systems, where he helped craft the technology and business strategy for WebLogic that drove BEA from $61m in annual revenues prior to the WebLogic acquisition to over $1B.
Dietzen came to BEA in 1998 via the acquisition of WebLogic, an innovator in Java and web application server technology. Prior to WebLogic, Dietzen was Principal Technologist of Transarc (acquired by IBM), a developer of distributed transaction and file sharing systems. Dietzen has made appearances on Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business and NBC’s Press:Here, among others. He has also been a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Forbes. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.
John "Coz" Colgrove was one of the founding engineers at VERITAS Software (merged with Symantec in 2005), where his 20-year career culminated as Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for the company's Data Center Management Group. Coz was the primary architect for the hugely successful VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) and VERITAS File System (VxFS), and later served in various other engineering, management, and consultative roles. During his time at VERITAS Coz became one of the industry's foremost experts on optimizing I/O streams and data structures for the unique idiosyncrasies of rotational hard drives, a challenge he's now re-solving for solid state Flash memory. Prior to VERITAS, Coz was with Amdahl Corporation, where he was a key contributor to the development of the UTS mainframe UNIX operating system kernel. After leaving Symantec in 2008 to pursue personal interests, he joined Sutter Hill Ventures in the role of Entrepreneur in Residence. It was there he observed the growing acceptance of solid-state storage by enterprises that led him to co-found Pure Storage with John Hayes, with the goal of fully exploiting the advantages of the new technology. Coz is a graduate of Rutgers University, and holds over 70 patents in the areas of computer system and reliable data storage design.
Jeff Rothschild has served as Advisor and Venture Partner at Accel Partners since 1999. Mr. Rothschild was the Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering at Facebook from 2005 to 2015. Mr. Rothschild previously co-founded Veritas Software Corp., where his role included product strategy, sales and marketing. Prior to Veritas, he worked with a number of companies in the areas of storage management, system software, and networking. Mr. Rothschild holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University and is the Vice-Chairman of the university Board of Trust. Mr. Rothschild currently serves as a board member at Interana, a data analytics software company, and Lytmus, a skills assessment software company.
Mark Garrett is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Adobe Systems Incorporated. With more than 25 years of financial management experience in the technology sector, Garrett has worked with many of the industry's leading companies. Before joining Adobe in 2007, Garrett served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Software Group of EMC Corporation. From 2002 to 2004 and from 1997 to 1999, Garrett served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Documentum, Inc., including throughout its acquisition by EMC in December 2003. Garrett currently serves on the board of directors of Model N, Inc. He earned a BS in accounting and marketing from Boston University and an MBA from Marist College.
Anita Sands has served on our board of directors since July 2015. From April 2012 to September 2013, Dr. Sands served as Group Managing Director and Head of Change Leadership and a member of the Wealth Management Americas Executive Committee of UBS Financial Services, a global financial services firm. From April 2010 to April 2012, Dr. Sands served as Group Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Wealth Management Americas at UBS Financial Services. From October 2009 to April 2010, Dr. Sands served as Transformation Consultant at UBS Financial Services. From 2008 to 2009, Dr. Sands served as Managing Director, Head of Transformation Management at Citigroup’s Global Operations and Technology organisation.
Prior to that, Dr. Sands also held several leadership positions with RBC Financial Group and CIBC. Dr. Sands currently serves on the board of directors of Symantec Corporation, ServiceNow, Inc. and a non-profit organisation. Dr. Sands earned a B.S. in Physics and Applied Mathematics from The Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, a Ph.D. in Atomic and Molecular Physics from The Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland and a M.S. in Public Policy and Management from Carnegie Mellon University.
Frank Slootman has served on the ServiceNow board of directors since May 2011 and as Chairman of the Board since October 2016. Mr. Slootman served as Chief Executive Officer and President of ServiceNow from 2011 to 2017. From January 2011 to April 2011, Slootman served as a partner with Greylock Partners, and served as an advisor to EMC Corporation from January 2011 to February 2012. From July 2009 to January 2011, he served as President of the Backup Recovery Systems Division at EMC. From July 2003 to July 2009, Slootman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Data Domain, Inc., which was acquired by EMC in 2009. Prior to joining Data Domain, Slootman served as an executive at Borland Software Corporation from June 2000 to June 2003. From March 1993 to June 2000, Slootman held consecutive general management positions for two enterprise software divisions of Compuware Corporation. Slootman holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics from the Netherlands School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Mike Speiser is currently a Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures. Mike joined Sutter Hill in 2008 from Yahoo!, where he was vice president of community products including Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Profiles and Bix. Mike joined Yahoo! in February 2007 through the acquisition of Bix, where he served as president and CEO. Prior to co-founding Bix, Mike served as vice president and technical advisor to Symantec Chairman & CEO, John Thompson. Previously, he was vice president of product marketing and product management at VERITAS, which was acquired by Symantec. Mike also co-founded Epinions.com, worked as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and was an analyst with CS First Boston. Mike holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar, and a B.A. from the University of Arizona.
Mike Volpi is a Partner at Index Ventures in the San Francisco office, focusing on investments in the Enterprise Software and Consumer Internet companies. He also contributes to the firm's later stage growth fund and he currently serves on the boards of Path, Sonos, Lookout, Hortonworks, Soundcloud, Big Switch Networks, Zuora, Foodily, and Storsimple. Mike is also on the board of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC). Mike was previously a Director of Cloud.com (now part of Citrix).
Mike began his career at Hewlett Packard's optoelectronics division. He then moved to Cisco Systems where he was Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Routing and Service Provider Technology Group, where he led Cisco's business for the Service Provider market, and was also responsible for all of Cisco's routing and access products. In 2007, this was an $11 billion business for Cisco. Mike also served as the company's Chief Strategy Officer, where he was responsible for Cisco's corporate strategy as well as business development, strategic alliances, advanced Internet projects, legal services, and government affairs. During this tenure, Mike was instrumental in the creation of the company's acquisition and investment strategies, as Cisco acquired more than 70 companies during his tenure.
He has master's and bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.