Clari Leadership
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Leadership
Andy Byrne
CEO
Andy Byrne
CEO
Andy Byrne brings over 19 years of experience in sales, marketing, business development and management to his position as CEO of Clari. Prior to Clari, Andy was part of the founding executive team at Clearwell Systems – Gartner's highest ranking e-discovery company – which he helped grow from pre-product & pre-revenue in 2005 to $100 million run rate until its acquisition by Symantec (SYMC) in Q2 2011.
Prior to joining Clearwell, Andy co-founded Timestock, Inc., which was acquired by Computer Associates (CA) via the acquisition of Wily Technology. Timestock delivered world-class enterprise application management solutions to large fortune 500 corporations. Before Timestock, Andy was VP of Marketing at Desana Systems. Prior to Desana, Andy was VP of Product Management at Lucent Technologies. Andy came to Lucent Technologies via the acquisition of VitalSigns Software. Andy has also held sales, marketing & management roles at Bay Networks and at MiLAN Technologies, which was later acquired by Digi International.
Andy holds a BS in Economics from the University of Nevada and received his MBA with honors from San Jose State University.
Venkat Rangan
CTO
Venkat Rangan
CTO
Venkat Rangan brings over 30 years of technology innovation and leadership experience to Clari. Prior to Clari, Venkat was the Co-founder and CTO of Clearwell Systems, Gartner's highest ranking e-discovery company, which was acquired by Symantec (SYMC) in 2011. At Clearwell, Venkat's team developed several industry-leading innovations in search, machine learning & predictive analytics.
Prior to Clearwell, Venkat served as VP of Technology at Rhapsody Networks – a technology leader in the storage business that was acquired by Brocade (BRCD). Prior to Rhapsody, Mr. Rangan was the VP and Chief Architect at VitalSigns Software, which was acquired by Lucent Technologies.
Venkat also served as a lead Program Manager at Microsoft, responsible for WEBM, WMI and CIM technologies of Microsoft, and as an R&D Manager at Hewlett Packard's NetMetrix division. Additionally, he developed PC NFS communications stack for Sun Microsystems, and was a member of Wang Laboratories Advanced Technologies team.
Venkat holds 13 patents along with a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida and an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Kurt Leafstrand
VP of Products
Kurt Leafstrand
VP of Products
Kurt brings over 20 years of technology & product development experience to Clari. Prior to Clari, Kurt was an early member of the product team at Clearwell Systems – Gartner's highest ranking e-discovery company, which was acquired by Symantec (SYMC) in 2011. As Senior Director of Product Management at Clearwell, Kurt's leadership led to the development of world class products used by large Fortune 500 companies all over the world.
Prior to Clearwell, Kurt was the Director of Products at Emprtoris, which was acquired by IBM. Prior to Emptoris, Kurt worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company.
Kurt has been passionate about building great products since he developed a Visicalc clone on his TRS-80 at age 13. This continued on through high school, where he coded video games and accounting software, which led to him founding an enterprise e-commerce company, Forge, shortly after graduating from MIT.
Kurt holds an undergraduate degree in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management.
Malay Desai
VP of Engineering
Malay Desai
VP of Engineering
Malay brings more than 14 years of passion and experience designing & building great products. As Chief Architect at Clari, Malay is focused on the design, development and technical architecture of the Clari cloud and mobile infrastructure. Prior to Clari, Malay was an early member of the technical team at Clearwell Systems – Gartner's highest ranking e-discovery company, which was acquired by Symantec (SYMC) in 2011. As technical architect at Clearwell, Malay helped develop several industry-leading innovations in search, machine learning & predictive analytics.
Prior to joining Clearwell, Malay was a senior engineer at ATG, primarily focused on building large scale portal tools and industry-leading eCommerce search products.
Malay holds a B.E. in Electronics and Communication from Gujaret University and an MS in Computer Science from University of Southern California.
Amy Johnson
VP Customer Success
Amy Johnson
VP Customer Success
Amy brings more than 20 years of experience building and supporting Enterprise products with a passion for customers. She has successfully led organizations to truly embody a "customer first" mentality as she served in a variety of roles creating Enterprise software. She led the rollout of the Clearwell e-Discovery product as Director of Program Management at Symantec, and excelled in training internal support teams, field teams and customers. She spent time in Quality Assurance roles making sure products were fully tested in customer scenarios and built out an innovative beta program. She seeded the support organizations at two other successful startups - first at VitalSigns Software, co-founded by Jim Goetz of Sequoia Capital and then at Clearwell Systems, co-founded by Venkat Rangan. At both startups, Amy was able to infuse her level of customer focus and commitment into the organization servicing customers as a technical support engineer, field sales engineer, technical trainer, services professional consultant, and customer advocate.
Amy holds a B.S. in Computational Mathematics from Michigan Technological University.
Cornelius Willis
CMO
Cornelius Willis
CMO
Cornelius brings over 20 years of technology marketing experience to his position as CMO of Clari. Before Clari, Cornelius led product marketing and strategic communications for Google Cloud Platform at Google. Under Cornelius leadership, Google Cloud Platform entered two different Gartner leader’s quadrants, launched such innovative products as Google Cloud Spanner, TensorFlow, Google Kubernetes Engine and made inroads into global enterprise accounts including Walt Disney, HSBC, Twitter, and Coca Cola.
Prior to Google, Cornelius held executive leadership positions at Rackspace, VMware, and BEA, and has served as a co-founder, advisor, employee and investor to over a dozen startups in the infrastructure platforms, open source and business systems markets.
Cornelius started his marketing career with 10 years at Microsoft, first as a technical evangelist for Microsoft Windows, then as Product Manager for Visual Basic, and Director of Platform Marketing.
Cornelius holds an AB Degree in English from Stanford University, with concentrations in computer science and classics.
Alyssa Filter
CFO
Alyssa Filter
CFO
Alyssa Filter
CFO
Alyssa has been working with venture backed technology companies for over 12 years. She began her career as an auditor and also worked as Controller/Director of Finance for several startups before returning to public accounting. Prior to Clari, Alyssa spent four years providing outsourced CFO services to dozens of Companies.
Alyssa holds a degree in Business Administration (public accounting concentration) from Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo and is a CPA (inactive) in California.
Kevin Knieriem
CRO
Kevin Knieriem
CRO
Kevin brings more than 20 years of experience driving revenue growth and building successful sales teams for leading enterprise giants and high-growth startups. Most recently, he spent more than four years at Oracle where he held several leadership positions, including CRO at DataScience.com (acquired by Oracle in June 2018). In this role, Kevin led DataScience.com’s demand generation, field marketing, sales and customer success initiatives from pre-revenue through acquisition by Oracle. During this time, DataScience.com helped define and then lead the Forrester Wave for Predictive Analytics & Machine Learning Platforms. Prior to that, he spent over a decade at SAP where he led regional and national organizations.
Kevin holds BA in Food Marketing from Saint Joseph’s University. He’s a graduate of the executive leadership program at IESE Business School.
Laura MacKinnon
Chief People Officer
Laura MacKinnon
Chief People Officer
Laura is an experienced HR executive with over 20 years of experience leading and managing people organizations for high-tech firms including SignalFx, Coupa, Yahoo!, Logitech, Electronic Arts, and SGI.
Most recently, Laura served as Chief People Officer at SignalFx (acquired by Splunk) where she more than doubled the organization to over 300 employees and led the company’s People Operations, Talent, and Facilities teams. Previously, at UserTesting as the Vice President of People, Places & Culture she drove all aspects of the company’s People strategy and led strategic programs for enhancing the corporate culture and improving employee performance. Prior to that, she held executive leadership positions at Coupa Software, Logitech International, Yahoo! and Hyperion Solutions.
Laura holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University.
Board and Investors
Brian Paul
Brian Paul
Brian focuses on SaaS, data center/cloud infrastructure, and security for Tenaya Capital. Brian co-founded Tenaya Capital and, prior to that, was a partner at Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. Previously, Brian worked in Lehman Brothers' Technology and Healthcare Investment Banking groups and First Boston’s Mortgage Finance group.
Brian has been ranked on the Forbes Midas List of Top Tech Investors and selected as one of the 15 top venture capitalists on the East Coast by Business Insider.
Brian holds an M.B.A. with distinction from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management and a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves on the Wharton Entrepreneurial Advisory Board.
Jim Goetz
Jim Goetz
Jim Goetz is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. He has helped create and grow a number of technology companies and product lines to market-leading positions both as an entrepreneur and as an investor. He has led or co-led Sequoia's investments in AdMob (GOOG), Appirio (WIT), Barracuda (CUDA), Clearwell (SYMC), GitHub (MSFT), HubSpot (HUBS), Jive (JIVE), Karma (FB), Okta (OKTA), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), PeakStream (GOOG), Ruckus Wireless (RKUS), Nimble Storage (NMBL) and WhatsApp (FB). He is currently on the board of Carbon, Clari, Dashlane, Intel (INTC), Metaswitch, Observable, Palo Alto Networks (PANW), R2C, Pocket Gems and Versa. Jim has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Steve Singh
Steve Singh
Steve is an entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He was the founder and CEO of Concur, served on the Executive Board of SAP, and formerly the CEO of Docker. He's an investor in Seattle area startups and technology companies around the country. In addition, Steve serves as a strategic director at the Madrona Venture Group and is a member of the Washington Board of Trustees for the Nature Conservancy.
Jai Das
Jai Das
Jai is a managing director, president and co-founder at Sapphire Ventures. He invests in startups which he believes are developing ground-breaking products and services, and have embarked on their journey to become a company of consequence. He has more than 15 years of experience helping companies innovate their product and marketing strategies in order to scale and become market leaders. Eleven of Jai’s investments have become publicly traded companies and 9 have been acquired.
Jai is currently a member of the board (director or observer) at AllyO, Catchpoint, Clari, DataRobot, JFrog, Narrative Science, OpsRamp, Portworx, PubNub, Punchh, Splashtop, Sumo Logic and ThoughtSpot.
Jai’s previous investments at Sapphire include: Alteryx (NYSE: AYX), Apigee (acquired by Google), Box (NYSE: BOX), Connectiva Systems (acquired by Mara Ison), Cloudhealth Technologies (acquired by VMware), Control4 (NASDAQ: CTRL), Cyphort (acquired by Juniper Networks), ExactTarget (acquired by Salesforce), Five9 (NASDAQ: FIVN), GroundWork (acquired by Parallax), Ignite Technologies (acquired by Versata), Iron.IO (acquired by Xenon Technologies), Jaspersoft (acquired by TIBCO Software), JustDial (JUSTDIAL), MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce), Newgen Software (NSE: NEWGEN), Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), Paytm, Socrata (acquired by Tyler Technologies), Square (NYSE: SQ), and Tealeaf (acquired by IBM).
Prior to joining Sapphire Ventures in 2006, Jai worked at Oracle, Intel Capital, Agilent Ventures, and MVC Capital (a DFJ affiliated fund). He has a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from Brown University and an MBA from University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
Ajay Agarwal
Ajay Agarwal
Ajay leads the west coast office for Bain Capital Ventures where he focuses on early-stage software investing. Prior to Bain Capital Ventures, Ajay was head of sales and marketing at Trilogy where he grew annual revenues to $300 million and led Trilogy's product expansion into new areas such as enterprise pricing and incentive management. Prior to Trilogy, Ajay was a consultant with the Los Angeles office of McKinsey & Company.
Ajay has a BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Ajay also holds a patent for the "Method and Apparatus of Configuration Solutions."
At Bain, Ajay's passion is working with early-stage founders on team-building, culture, iteration of product market fit, and scaling the early go-to-market operations. His primary investment themes include commerce enablement, the revolution of the sales and marketing functions, and the use of big-data to transform business applications. In 2012 and 2013, Ajay was named to the Forbes Midas list of Tech's Top 100 Investors.
In addition to his firm and portfolio company responsibilities, Ajay serves as the National Board Chair for BUILD, a not-for-profit dedicated to helping underprivileged high school students attend college.
Ajay grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and is a die-hard Steelers fan. Ajay lives in Palo Alto, CA with his wife and three daughters. To read his blog, please click here.
Enrique Salem
Enrique Salem
Enrique joined Bain Capital Ventures in 2014, where he focuses on infrastructure software and services with a specialization in cybersecurity. Enrique was previously the president and CEO of Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) and brings more than 27 years of executive experience in technology and security to Bain Capital Ventures. Through his 19 years at the global leader for security, backup, and availability solutions, Enrique also served as the executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing and president of consumer products. Before Symantec, he was president and CEO of Brightmail, the leading anti-spam software company acquired by Symantec in 2004.
In March 2011, Enrique was appointed to President Barack Obama’s Management Advisory Board. He currently serves on the boards of several portfolio companies, including DocuSign, and serves independently on the boards of FireEye, Atlassian and ForeScout.
Enrique was named 2004 Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, and 2007 Corporate Executive of the Year by Hispanic Net.
When he isn’t focused on the technology industry, Enrique enjoys the outdoors and spending time with his two kids. You can often find him on skis or a bike.
Enrique received his Bachelor of Arts in computer science from Dartmouth College.
Aaref Hilaly
Aaref Hilaly
Aaref Hilaly is a partner at Wing Venture Capital, where he helps technical founders build companies around their ideas. He joined Wing in 2019 from Sequoia, where he served on the boards of several category-defining companies, including Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), Lightstep, MobileIron (NASDAQ: MOBL), Skyhigh Networks (acquired by McAffee), and ThousandEyes.
Before Sequoia, Aaref was the CEO of Clearwell, a leading e-discovery software company, where he worked with the Clari founders to build a profitable company with over $100M in annual recurring revenue. In 2011, Symantec acquired Clearwell for $410M and Aaref became VP Engineering in Symantec’s information management group. Prior to that, Aaref was the Founder and CEO of CenterRun, a pioneer in datacenter automation, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems.
Aaref holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Master’s degree in economics from McGill University and a BA degree from Oxford University.
Venkat Rangan
Venkat Rangan
CTO
Venkat Rangan brings over 30 years of technology innovation and leadership experience to Clari. Prior to Clari, Venkat was the Co-founder and CTO of Clearwell Systems, Gartner's highest ranking e-discovery company, which was acquired by Symantec (SYMC) in 2011. At Clearwell, Venkat's team developed several industry-leading innovations in search, machine learning & predictive analytics.
Prior to Clearwell, Venkat served as VP of Technology at Rhapsody Networks – a technology leader in the storage business that was acquired by Brocade (BRCD). Prior to Rhapsody, Mr. Rangan was the VP and Chief Architect at VitalSigns Software, which was acquired by Lucent Technologies.
Venkat also served as a lead Program Manager at Microsoft, responsible for WEBM, WMI and CIM technologies of Microsoft, and as an R&D Manager at Hewlett Packard's NetMetrix division. Additionally, he developed PC NFS communications stack for Sun Microsystems, and was a member of Wang Laboratories Advanced Technologies team.
Venkat holds 13 patents along with a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida and an undergraduate degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Andy Byrne
Andy Byrne
CEO
Andy Byrne brings over 19 years of experience in sales, marketing, business development and management to his position as CEO of Clari. Prior to Clari, Andy was part of the founding executive team at Clearwell Systems – Gartner's highest ranking e-discovery company – which he helped grow from pre-product & pre-revenue in 2005 to $100 million run rate until its acquisition by Symantec (SYMC) in Q2 2011.
Prior to joining Clearwell, Andy co-founded Timestock, Inc., which was acquired by Computer Associates (CA) via the acquisition of Wily Technology. Timestock delivered world-class enterprise application management solutions to large fortune 500 corporations. Before Timestock, Andy was VP of Marketing at Desana Systems. Prior to Desana, Andy was VP of Product Management at Lucent Technologies. Andy came to Lucent Technologies via the acquisition of VitalSigns Software. Andy has also held sales, marketing & management roles at Bay Networks and at MiLAN Technologies, which was later acquired by Digi International.
Andy holds a BS in Economics from the University of Nevada and received his MBA with honors from San Jose State University.
