CEO, Sauce Labs Inc
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- CEO at Sauce Labs Inc
- Past
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- Entrepreneurial Advisor at Independent
- VP Marketing / Business Development / Founder at Caw Networks
- VP Business Development at ichat inc.
- Director Asia Pacific at Auspex
- Sr. Product Manager at Auspex
- Account Executive, Westchester Cty, NY at Sun Microsystems
- Customer Marketing Manager at Sun Microsystems
- Education
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- University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Ledyard High School
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John Dunham’s Summary
Innovative, results-oriented entrepreneur with broad spectrum of executive-level success in worldwide: marketing, sales, finance and business development. I founded Sauce Labs to be a platform where I can apply that experience to help a young, enthusiastic and talented team achieve their goals; find out just how far their will, wits, grit and determination will take them.
John Dunham’s Specialties:
Industries: Systems, Software, Storage, Networking
Functions: Marketing, Finance, Operations, Sales, Business Development, International. I place a strong emphasis on Core Values identification, articulation, and exploitation to build strong, vibrant business cultures.
John Dunham’s Experience
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CEO
Sauce Labs Inc
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
We make it easier to deliver quality web applications. People tell us that care and feeding of functional (Selenium) test infrastructure and test completion times are their two biggest headaches. We're changing that.
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Entrepreneurial Advisor
Independent
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
January 2004 — June 2008 (4 years 6 months)
Advisor / board member for early-stage startups: security infrastructure life-cycle management appliance [$8M venture funding, strategy, market development], storage management appliance start-up, and board member for importer of layer-seven networking technology to Japan.
Help entrepreneurs turn great ideas into great companies. Bring successful executive experience in Marketing, Sales, International, Business Development, Finance and Operations, Coach entrepreneurs to create a values-based foundation, focus their idea, and build a functionally-balanced, achievable strategy. -
VP Marketing / Business Development / Founder
Caw Networks
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)
September 1999 — November 2002 (3 years 3 months)
Cofounder, board member Caw Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) Lead Marketing, Sales, Finance and Business Development. Raised $25M in venture, private and partner investment including Series B in October 2001 at a 100% premium over Series A. Negotiated and managed the sale of the company to Spirent Communications at a profit to investors and employees alike during the worst tech downturn in history. Hired the Marketing team that defined, managed and introduced Caw’s first products, garnering three Best of Show awards and voluminous press coverage, selling $2.7M in first year sales. Managed the Japanese market; responsible for 40% of first year revenues. Championed and lead the New Markets Group to successfully bring Caw’s technology into the Enterprise market.
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VP Business Development
ichat inc.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
January 1997 — May 1999 (2 years 5 months)
VP, Business Development, ichat Inc. (chat and instant messaging pioneer, now Apple) (Austin, TX) Recruited and signed Lotus, Oracle, and Japanese distributor technology licensing deals. Drove Netscape, Microsoft, Real Networks and Yahoo! marketing relationships, facilitating a majority of the 20M ichat client downloads. Proposed and executed technology licensing program.
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Director Asia Pacific
Auspex
(Computer Hardware industry)
December 1991 — April 1994 (2 years 5 months)
Drove Auspex APAC sales from a standing start to over $18M / year in 3 year period with only an SE as a resource.
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Sr. Product Manager
Auspex
(Computer Networking industry)
1990 — 1992 (2 years )
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Account Executive, Westchester Cty, NY
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; Computer Networking industry)
1987 — 1990 (3 years )
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Customer Marketing Manager
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; JAVA; Computer Hardware industry)
1985 — 1987 (2 years )
