Asheem Chandna

Current

Founding Investor and Board of Directors at Singularity
Investor at TechProcess Solutions Ltd
Founding Investor and Board of Directors at Palo Alto Networks

Founding Investor and Board Observer at Xsigo Systems
Partner at Greylock Partners
Board of Directors at Sourcefire
Board of Directors at Imperva

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Past

Board of Directors at Securent, Inc.
Board of Directors at PortAuthority Technologies
Board of Directors at CipherTrust

VP, Business Development and Product Management at Check Point Software Technologies
Board of Directors at NetBoost
Product Management at Compuware
VP, Marketing at CoroNet Systems
Strategic Marketing and Product Management at SynOptics / Bay Networks
Strategic Marketing at Bay Networks
Product Management, Strategic Marketing at SynOptics Communications
Product Management, Strategic Marketing at SynOptics
Systems Engineering at AT&T Bell Labs
Consultant at AT&T Bell Laboratories

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Education

Case Western Reserve University
Case Western Reserve University
Cathedral & John Connon High School

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Websites

Asheem Chandna’s Summary

Interested in meeting:
- Smart entrepreneurs with original ideas.
- Experienced executives with proven track records.
- Individuals committed to excellence.

Current company board seats and investments include Imperva, Palo Alto Networks, Sourcefire (FIRE), Tech Process and Xsigo Systems. Previously company director at CipherTrust (acquired by Secure Computing), NetBoost (acquired by Intel), PortAuthority Technologies (acquired by Websense) and Securent (acquired by Cisco).

Asheem Chandna’s Specialties:

Enterprise IT infrastructure, cloud computing and services, datacenter, networking, security.

Asheem Chandna’s Experience

Founding Investor and Board of Directors

Singularity

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Autonomic application deployment and scaling in virtualized environments.
Investor

TechProcess Solutions Ltd

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

India's leading electronic payment processing company.
Founding Investor and Board of Directors

Palo Alto Networks

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years 7 months)

The next generation firewall.
Founding Investor and Board Observer

Xsigo Systems

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

August 2004 — Present (5 years)

The leader in data center I/O virtualization.
Partner

Greylock Partners

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

September 2003 — Present (5 years 11 months)
Board of Directors

Sourcefire

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; FIRE; Computer & Network Security industry)

April 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)

Snort creator, open source innovator, world leader in enterprise threat management solutions. Nasdaq:FIRE.
Board of Directors

Imperva

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

April 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)

Leader in application data security and compliance.
Board of Directors

Securent, Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

April 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 8 months)

Leader in entitlement management. Acquired by Cisco in November 2007.
Board of Directors

PortAuthority Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

April 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 10 months)

Leader in information leakage prevention. Acquired by Websense (Nasdaq: WBSN) in January 2007.
Board of Directors

CipherTrust

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

February 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 8 months)

Leader in email and messaging security. Merged with Secure Computing (Nasdaq: SCUR) in September 2006.
VP, Business Development and Product Management

Check Point Software Technologies

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CHKP; Computer & Network Security industry)

April 1996 — December 2002 (6 years 9 months)
Board of Directors

NetBoost

(Information Technology and Services industry)

July 1997 — September 1999 (2 years 3 months)

Next generation network processor solutions. Acquired by Intel in September 1999.
Product Management

Compuware

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CPWR; Computer Software industry)

October 1995 — April 1996 (7 months)
VP, Marketing

CoroNet Systems

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

October 1994 — October 1995 (1 year 1 month)
Strategic Marketing and Product Management

SynOptics / Bay Networks

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NT; Computer Networking industry)

June 1991 — October 1994 (3 years 5 months)
Strategic Marketing

Bay Networks

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

1994 — 1994 (less than a year)
Product Management, Strategic Marketing

SynOptics Communications

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

1991 — 1994 (3 years)
Product Management, Strategic Marketing

SynOptics

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

1991 — 1994 (3 years)
Systems Engineering

AT&T Bell Labs

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Computer Networking industry)

June 1988 — May 1991 (3 years)
Consultant

AT&T Bell Laboratories

(Public Company; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

1988 — 1991 (3 years)