Executive Team
Chet Kapoor, CEO
As a leader and innovator in the high-tech industry, Chet has spent 20 years in leadership positions in innovative software and hardware companies including VP of Content Management and Search Products at IBM and VP/GM for the Integration Group of BEA Systems. In addition, he was CEO of Gluecode, an open source application server company that IBM acquired. Chet also served as a Vice President at webMethods and held various positions at NeXT.
Anant Jhingran, Data
Dr. Anant Jhingran (PhD Berkeley) joined Apigee from IBM where he was VP and CTO for IBM's Information Management Division and Co-Chair of IBM wide Cloud Computing Architecture Board. He was responsible for the technical strategy for databases, information integration, analytics, Big Data, and helped deliver IBM's PaaS capabilities. Dr. Jhingran has had a wide impact on IBM's business in warehousing, search, e-commerce and analytics on structured and unstructured data. He has received several awards including IBM Fellow, IIT Delhi Distinguished Alumnus Award, President's Gold Medal for highest GPA at IIT Delhi, IBM Academy of Technology, and has authored over a dozen patents and over 20 technical papers, including frequent keynotes in industry and academic conferences.
Brian Mulloy, Products
Brian has 15 years of experience ranging from enterprise software to founding a web startup. He co-founded and was CEO of Swivel, a website for social data analysis. He was President and General Manager of Grand Central, a cloud-based offering for application infrastructure (before we called it the cloud). And was Director of Product Marketing at BEA Systems. Brian holds a degree in Physics from the University of Michigan.
Chris Vogel, Solutions
Chris comes to Apigee with over 20 years of experience in High Tech Consulting, Customer Support and IT Leadership positions. Prior to Apigee, Chris was most recently VP of Business Systems for Blue Coat Systems, where he had responsibility for delivering all enterprise IT business system initiatives. Prior to Blue Coat, he led the Consulting and Sales Engineering teams for a SaaS Enterprise startup. Chris has specialized in building and developing strong client facing solutions teams for dynamic and fast-growing companies throughout his career, including BEA Systems, Broadvision and Oracle. Chris holds a degree in Applied Mathematics from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
Don Dixon, Finance
Don comes to Apigee with over 16 years of financial management experience. Prior to Apigee, Don most recently was VP of Finance for Blue Coat Systems, where he had overall financial responsibility for the Worldwide Sales and Services organizations. Prior to Blue Coat Systems, Don spent almost 11 years at BEA Systems, holding varying financial roles within the company, supporting field operations, and serving as Assistant Corporate Controller. Don began his career with KPMG in San Jose, where he received his CPA.
Ed Anuff, Mobile Platform
Ed Anuff is a respected technologist and a proven innovator. Prior to starting Usergrid, he was most recently executive vice president and general manager of Six Apart, which is known for creating the Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting software and Vox. Previously, he was co-founder of Widgetbox, a popular marketplace for widgets, and he was also co-founder of enterprise software company Epicentric, a leading provider of enterprise portal software. Anuff was also responsible for the launch of HotBot, one of the first news search engines, when he was an executive at Wired.
Gregory Brail, Technology
Gregory Brail brings a variety of experience to Apigee from more than 18 years in the industry. Prior to Apigee, Greg worked at BEA as technical lead for the WebLogic JMS team, and kicked off BEA's "Core Engine" initiative, which built a modular "micro-kernel" using core WebLogic technology. Prior to BEA, Greg served as Principal Architect for TransactPlus, a LabMorgan spinoff that offered guaranteed message delivery over the Internet. Greg began his career developing custom middleware libraries for Citibank, and then spent his formative years with transaction-processing pioneers Transarc, where he worked in the field, deploying production systems using Transarc technology at JPMorgan and elsewhere. Greg holds a degree in Computer Science from Brown University.
Jen Mazzon, Products
Jen is a product management geek with belt notches from Intuit, Google, and early stage startups Upstartle (makers of Writely, acquired by Google) and Rocket Lawyer. Jen learned marketing and product management fundamentals at Intuit, eventually leaving to join the Upstartle gang as Writely’s VP of Marketing. Post Google acquisition, Jen helped re-launch Writely as Google Docs and product managed dozens of releases on Google Docs and Google Maps teams. She led the product management, user experience and support teams at Rocket Lawyer before joining Apigee. Jen holds degrees from Yale University and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Joe Monzo, Sales
Joe is a seasoned technology industry veteran with over 25 years experience in sales, management and executive leadership. Joe has specialized in the launch and scale of emerging technology market opportunities for both, established firms and start-ups, executing with customers and partners to gain early market validation, building and scaling sales and revenue. Joe brings a diverse business background having held a variety of leadership roles at Nortel, Teleport Communications Group, Exodus Communications, as well as several early stage ventures. Joe holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration and Marketing from King's College, Wilkes-Barre, PA. He is married and lives with his wife and 4 children in Flourtown, PA.
Michael Gardner, Engineering and Operations
Michael is a seasoned technology leader with deep cloud platform operational expertise. He started his career leading teams working on programming tools and compilers for database centric languages, including nearly 10 years at Borland. Michael has spent the last decade working on SaaS based product lines and business models, primarily around eComm. At eBay he ran the Search technology group as well as a program that converted the entire 5M line eBay codebase from C++ to Java. At Liveops Mike ran a cloud-based call center platform and led the technical teams through significant evolution necessary to scale that telephony platform while maintaining high availability and high development velocity. At Ketera Mike led a team that reinvented the model for B2B ecomm. Following Ketera's acquisition Michael spent the summer as an EIR advising a number of startups.
Sam Ramji, Strategy
Sam brings over 17 years of industry experience in enterprise software, product development, and open source strategy. Prior to Apigee, Sam led open source strategy across Microsoft, where he and his team worked with Bill Gates, Ray Ozzie, and contributed code to the Linux kernel. He was a founding member of BEA's AquaLogic product team and has built large-scale enterprise and Web-scale applications, leading the Ofoto engineering team through its acquisition by Kodak. Other experience includes hands-on development of client, client-server and distributed applications on Unix, Windows and Macintosh at companies ranging from Broderbund to Fair Isaac. Sam holds a B.S. in Cognitive Science from the University of California at San Diego, and is a member of the Institute for Generative Leadership. He holds positions on the boards of the Outercurve Foundation for open source, on the Open Cloud Initiative, and is a contributing editor to the ACM's journal Ubiquity.
Scott Regan, Marketing
Scott brings 18 years of experience in marketing and product management of enterprise and consumer software platforms. Previously, he was responsible for Local and Maps products at Yahoo!. Prior to that, Scott led developer product marketing and developer relations at BEA. He has held product management positions with Escalate (acquired by GERS) and Microsoft's Visual Studio team. He began his career in Accenture's Telecom and Technology groups and is a graduate of the Duke Engineering and Stanford Business School.
Srinivasa Gandhi Sampath, Solutions
Gandhi brings over 15 years of experience in Product Development, Product Management and Solution Architecture for enterprise and web platforms. Previously, he was a Principal Solutions Architect in the GoToMarket team for Oracles Fusion Middleware products, covering the Asia Pacific region. Prior to that, he was a lead architect for the Portal and Adapter development at TIBCO. Gandhi has also worked as a consultant in companies such as IBM, Microsoft and Unisys. Most of his technology experience has been around building distributed systems; messaging middleware, web and web services based architectures. Gandhi holds a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Bharathidasan University, India.
Srinivasulu Grandhi, Engineering and Solutions
Srinivasulu Grandhi brings over 21 years of industry experience in software product development. Most recently, Grandhi worked at Amazon Transportation Technology Team and helped define their technical strategy and roadmap. As part of Windows and Windows Live division at Microsoft, Grandhi led various product development and program management teams delivering into Vista, IE7 and Windows Live Wave 4 releases. Grandhi held technical leadership roles at Elind & Torry Harris and architected and built various mission critical systems at Verifone and GE Medical Systems. Grandhi holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani.
Vasanthi Ramesh, Engineering
Vasanthi Ramesh has over 15 years of experience in software QA and product engineering. Prior to Apigee, Vasanthi worked at BEA as a technical lead in various WebLogic products. She led the QA for BEA's "Core Engine" initiative where she architected and built the framework for modular testing on OSGI platform.Vasanthi started her career writing code for data modelling of weather patterns in Meteorological department. She holds a Masters in Statistics from Central University, India and a Masters in Computer science from New Jersey Institute of technology."
Board of Directors
Chet Kapoor, CEO, Apigee Corporation
As a leader and innovator in the high-tech industry, Chet has spent 20 years in leadership positions in innovative software and hardware companies including VP of Content Management and Search Products at IBM and VP and GM for the Integration Group of BEA Systems. In addition, he was CEO of Gluecode, an open source application server company that IBM acquired, Vice President at webMethods and held various positions at NeXT.
Neal Dempsey, Managing Director, Bay Partners
Neal launched his venture capital career in 1989 at Bay. Through cycles of change, Neal's investment thesis has been to find entrepreneurs with domain expertise and the fine art of listening. At the end of the day, customers decide whether startups will succeed or not and without listening to customers, entrepreneurs are seldom successful. This thesis has served him well through investments in category creating companies like Brocade, Informatica and Shiva.
Neal balances the stresses of his workload by giving back to the community. In addition to serving as Managing General Partner at Bay, he serves on the Board of EMQ Children and Family Services (a.k.a. Eastfield Ming Quong). Neal's leadership helped establish the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program at the University of Washington Business School.
Promod Haque, Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Promod has 17 years of experience in the venture capital industry and currently serves as managing partner at Norwest Venture Partners. He joined Norwest Venture Partners in 1990. He has been ranked as a top dealmaker on the annual Forbes Midas List for the past five years, and in 2004, Forbes named him as the #1 venture capitalist based on performance over the last decade. In 2006, Promod was presented with a Global Leadership award from NASSCOM.
Promod focuses on investments in semiconductor and components, systems, software and services. He was an early investor and a board member of Cerent (acquired by Cisco), Siara Systems (acquired by Redback Networks), OnDisplay (acquired by Vignette), Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola) and Extreme Networks (Nasdaq: EXTR).
Other notable investments and previous board seats include Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM), Forte Software (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Information Advantage (acquired by Sterling Software), Arbortext (acquired by PTC), Open-Silicon (acquired by Unicorn Investment Bank BSC), Resonext Communications (acquired by RF Micro Devices), Showcase (acquired by SPSS), Yipes (acquired by Flag Telecom Group) and ZettaCom (acquired by IDT).
Robert Schwartz, Managing Partner, Third Point Ventures
President, RF Associates North, Inc.
Managing Partner, Third Point Ventures Robert Schwartz is Managing Partner of Third Point Ventures, the Sunnyvale, California-based venture capital arm of Third Point LLC, which is a registered investment adviser based in New York and manages over $8B in assets. Since 1984, Mr. Schwartz has also been the President of RF Associates North, Inc., a privately-held technical manufacturer’s representative firm. Mr. Schwartz is presently a director of several privately-held companies in the Third Pojnt Ventures Portfolio. Mr. Schwartz graduated in 1984 with highest honors from the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering.
Raj Singh, Co-Founder, Apigee Corporation
Raj Singh brings to Apigee a wealth of experience in founding and managing technology startups. His previous startups include StratumOne Communications, a chip maker for wide area networks (sold to Cisco); InterHDL Inc., an EDA tools maker for chip design (sold to Avant!); and Advancel Logic, a Java processor company (sold to Noise Cancellation Technologies). His bigger success was Fiberlane Communications that was later split into Cerent Systems, sold to Cisco, and Siara Systems, sold to Redback Networks. Raj was co-founder and president of Comstellar Technologies, an incubator for technology startups. Raj is the founder and a General Partner of Redwood Ventures, a technology investment venture firm.
Raj is a co-author of "Digital Design and Synthesis with Verilog HDL", a popular textbook that used by several universities for teaching graduate level courses on chip design. Raj worked as a Scientific Officer at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in Mumbai, India.