Asheem Chandna

Current

Founding Investor and Board of Directors at Delphix
Founding Investor and Board of Directors at AppDynamics
Investor and Board Observer 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 Imperva

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Past

Board of Directors at Sourcefire
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 at Bay Networks
Strategic Marketing and Product Management at SynOptics / Bay Networks
Product Management, Strategic Marketing at SynOptics Communications
Product Management, Strategic Marketing at SynOptics
Systems Engineering at AT&T Bell Labs

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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

My Company

Asheem Chandna’s Summary

Partner at Greylock Partners, a leading venture capital firm. Invest in enterprise IT companies.

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

Current company boards and investments include AppDynamics, Delphix, Imperva, Palo Alto Networks, Sourcefire (FIRE), Tech Process and Xsigo Systems. Previously company director at CipherTrust (MCAF), NetBoost (INTC), PortAuthority (WBSN) and Securent (CSCO). Also previously invested in Aruba Networks (ARUN).

Have helped create and grow multiple technology businesses and product lines to market-leading positions – both as a venture capitalist and as a former entrepreneurial executive. As a company board director, work closely and supportively with founders and management teams to help create and grow “category-leading” companies that provide customers with highly-differentiated product capabilities and superior business value. Help portfolio companies in multiple areas including hiring, strategy, customer acquisition, business development and company exits.

Additional prior company advisory roles and/or investments (in an individual capacity) include Alteon WebSystems (NT), BigBand Networks (BBND), FineGround Networks (CSCO), Neoteris (JNPR), Nirvana Business Solutions, Rainfinity (EMC), Secure Computing (MCAF), Selectica (SLTC), VitalSigns Software (BT) and Whole Security (SYMC).

Asheem Chandna’s Specialties:

Enterprise IT: infrastructure, cloud computing, SaaS, data center, management, networking, security, storage, virtualization.

Asheem Chandna’s Experience

Founding Investor and Board of Directors

Delphix

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)

Database virtualization company, based in Mountain View and currently in stealth mode. Founded by Jed Yueh and Charlie Zha. Their previous company Avamar was acquired by EMC.
Founding Investor and Board of Directors

AppDynamics

(Computer Software industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

AppDynamics is the only Application Performance Management (APM) solution built specifically for distributed Java / .NET applications deployed across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. AppDynamics is designed to deliver immediate value - you can be deployed in minutes and get end-to-end transaction performance visibility in real-time.

Based in San Francisco and founded by Jyoti Bansal, formerly product group architect and principal engineer at Wily Technology (acquired by CA).
Investor and Board Observer

TechProcess Solutions Ltd

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

India's leading electronic payment processing company. Spin-out from ICICI Bank.
Founding Investor and Board of Directors

Palo Alto Networks

(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

February 2005 — Present (4 years 10 months)

Palo Alto Networks is the leader in next-generation firewalls, enabling unprecedented visibility and granular policy control of applications and content – by user, not just IP address – at up to 10Gbps with no performance degradation.

Nir Zuk founded the company in February 2005 with a small seed financing and worked out of Greylock offices during 2005. The product idea was solidified and validated based on multiple meetings with leading IT customers during 2005 and the company closed a full Series A financing in January 2006.
Founding Investor and Board Observer

Xsigo Systems

(Privately Held; Computer Networking industry)

August 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

The leader in data center I/O virtualization. Founded by Ashok Krishnamurthi, formerly VP of engineering at Juniper Networks.
Partner

Greylock Partners

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

September 2003 — Present (6 years 3 months)
Board of Directors

Imperva

(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

April 2003 — Present (6 years 8 months)

Leader in application data security and compliance. Co-founded by Shlomo Kramer, who previously co-founded Check Point Software.
Board of Directors

Sourcefire

(Public Company; FIRE; Computer & Network Security industry)

April 2003 — October 2009 (6 years 7 months)

Snort creator, open source innovator, world leader in enterprise threat management solutions. Nasdaq:FIRE. Founded by Marty Roesch.

Was on the Sourcefire board of directors for 6.5 years. Company grew from $2M to ~$100M in annual revenues during tenure. Served on all three board committees: Audit, Compensation, and Nominating and Governance.
Board of Directors

Securent, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

April 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 8 months)

Securent quickly established itself as the leader in entitlement management. Competed against BEA, CA, IBM and Oracle.

Founded by two brilliant PhDs - Rajiv Gupta (CEO) and Sekhar Sarukkai (CTO). Product development was in Hyderabad, India. Securent generated very strong sales and customer wins in it's first year, at many leading IT accounts in North America. This led to several public companies having early M&A interest. Was acquired by Cisco in November 2007 for $100M cash - 19 months after the Greylock co-led Series A financing. A strong outcome for the founders, team and investors.
Board of Directors

PortAuthority Technologies

(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

April 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 10 months)

Leader in data leakage prevention (DLP). Competed against multiple venture-backed startups.

Acquired by Websense (WBSN) in January 2007 for ~$100M - 22 months after initial Greylock financing (co-led a recapitalization of prior company Vidius and relaunched as PortAuthority). Strong outcome for management team, employees and investors Strong execution by product team and management resulted in the highest premium (enterprise value / revenue multiple) exit in the DLP space vs. all other venture backed companies, despite the company starting much later in the space.
Board of Directors

CipherTrust

(Privately Held; Computer & Network Security industry)

February 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 8 months)

Leader in email and messaging security.

Founded in Atlanta by Jay Chaudhry, a very successful and talented serial entrepreneur. Company rapidly grew to the size of a small public company. Acquired by Secure Computing (SCUR) in September 2006 for $300M. Secure Computing was subsequently acquired by McAfee (MCAF).
VP, Business Development and Product Management

Check Point Software Technologies

(Public Company; CHKP; Computer & Network Security industry)

April 1996 — December 2002 (6 years 9 months)

During 6+ year tenure, Check Point grew from $10M to $500M+ in annual revenues. Founded the business development and product management organizations, led corporate marketing during high growth years and directed Check Point's product/business strategy, product management and industry partnerships. Credited with creating, growing and leading Check Point's OPSEC Alliance into the largest and most successful security partner program in the IT industry.
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 (INTC) 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

Bay Networks

(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

1994 — 1994 (less than a year)
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)
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; T; Telecommunications industry)

June 1988 — May 1991 (3 years )

Represented AT&T at IETF standards committees for TCP/IP management protocols. Created management requirements and architecture specifications for AT&T data and voice management products.

Asheem Chandna’s Education

Case Western Reserve University

M.S. , Computer Engineering , 1986 — 1988

Master's thesis: "An Ada Based Approach to MAP Network Specification and Simulation." New methods for the precise specification, detailed simulation and functional analysis of networking protocols.
Case Western Reserve University

B.S. , Electrical Engineering , 1982 — 1986

Activities and Societies:

ACM, IEEE, ZBT
Cathedral & John Connon High School

High School , 1970 — 1980