Management
Steve Mullaney
Chief Executive Officer
Steve Mullaney has 25 years of marketing, product management, and engineering experience in network infrastructure and security. Prior to Nicira, Steve held executive positions at Palo Alto Networks, Blue Coat, Force10, Cisco, Growth Networks, ShoreTel, Bay Networks and SynOptics. Before SynOptics, he was a design engineer at GTE Government Systems. Steve holds a BSEE from University of Rhode Island.
Martin Casado
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Martin Casado received his PhD from Stanford University in 2007 where his dissertation work led to the technology on which Nicira is based. He received his Masters from Stanford University in 2005. While at Stanford, Martin co-founded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006. Prior to attending Stanford, Martin held a research position at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on network security in the information operations assurance center (IOAC).
Alan S. Cohen
Vice President, Marketing
Alan Cohen joins Nicira with over 20 years of marketing, product management, and business management experience in networking and software. Prior to Nicira, Alan held executive positions at Cisco, Airespace, Tahoe Networks, IBM, U S WEST, and Coopers & Lybrand. He served on the Board of Directors of GGP (NYSE: GGP). Alan holds graduate degrees from NYU and The American University School of International Service, and a BA from SUNY Buffalo.
Bruce Davie
Chief Service Provider Architect
Bruce Davie has over 20 years of networking industry experience, and was a Cisco Fellow prior to joining Nicira. At Cisco, he led the team that developed the MPLS architecture and worked closely with leading service providers to enhance the capabilities of their networks. In addition to his work on MPLS, Bruce contributed to the standards on IP quality of service and has written over a dozen Internet RFCs. He currently chairs the ACM's Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) and is an ACM Fellow. He is also the author of several networking texts and a visiting lecturer at MIT. Bruce received his Ph. D. in computer science from the University of Edinburgh in 1988.
Rob Enns
Vice President, Engineering
Rob Enns joins Nicira after eleven years at Juniper Networks. At Juniper, Rob held several executive leadership roles, including Vice President Engineering of Junos Core, and Vice President Engineering of the Edge & Aggregation Business Unit. In these roles Rob built multiple international engineering teams responsible for delivering a diverse portfolio of networking software and systems. Prior to Juniper Rob spent ten years as principal engineer at Berkeley Networks, Fore Systems, IBM, and Bell-Northern Research. Rob holds a masters degree in computer science from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.
Paul Fazzone
Vice President, Product Management
Paul Fazzone has over 13 years of experience with data center and virtualization networking products. He currently drives Nicira's product management efforts. Prior to joining Nicira, Paul was the Director of Product Management at Cisco responsible for the Nexus data center access and virtualization switching products and strategy including the Nexus 1000V. Paul holds a BA in computer science from Saint Anselm College.
John Jendricks
Vice President, Business Development & Operations
John Jendricks is responsible for Nicira's business operations following similar positions over several decades at Adobe, Wellfleet, StrataCom, Cisco, Juniper and Force10. He graduated from California Polytechnic University.
Nick McKeown
Co-Founder
Nick McKeown is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Faculty Director of the Stanford Clean Slate Design Program. He received his bachelor's degree from Leeds University (1986), his MS (1992) and PhD (1995) from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1986-1989 he worked for Hewlett-Packard Labs in Bristol, England. In 1995, he helped architect Cisco's GSR 12000 router. In 1997 Nick co-founded Abrizio Inc. (acquired by PMC-Sierra), where he was CTO. He was co-founder and CEO of Nemo ("Network Memory") , which is now part of Cisco. Nick is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), the IEEE and the ACM. In 2005, he was awarded the British Computer Society Lovelace Medal, and in 2009 the IEEE Kobayashi Computer and Communications Award.
Denis Murphy
Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Denis Murphy has over 20 years of technology sales and sales management experience. Prior to Nicira, Denis held executive positions at Riverbed, BlueArc, EMC and Mercury Interactive. Denis holds an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BSEE from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Scott Shenker
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Scott Shenker is a Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his bachelor's degree from Brown University (1978), his PhD (1983) in theoretical physics from the University of Chicago, and spent a postdoctoral year at Cornell University. He became a member of the research staff at Xerox PARC in 1984, left to found and direct the AT&T Center for Internet Research at ICSI in 1999, and then joined the U. C. Berkeley faculty in 2004. Scott was awarded the ACM SIGCOMM award in 2002, the IEEE Internet Award in 2006, and an honorary doctorate by the University of Chicago in 2007. In terms of commercial experience, Scott has worked closely with AT&T and has been a consultant with Cisco.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Steve Mullaney
Chief Executive Officer
See bio above
Martin Casado
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer
See bio above
Nick McKeown
Co-Founder
See bio above
Ben Horowitz
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Ben Horowitz is a co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs become successful CEOs and build important and enduring companies. Andreessen Horowitz provides seed, venture and growth-stage funding to the best new technology companies, and the firm currently has $1.2 billion under management across two funds. Among its 80 investments are Airbnb, Facebook, Foursquare, Groupon, Jawbone, Lytro, Pinterest, Twitter and Zynga. Horowitz has a BA in Computer Science from Columbia University and an MS in Computer Science from UCLA. He serves on the board of many companies including Foursquare, Jawbone, Lytro, Magnet, Nicira and Tidemark. Horowitz also pens his own blog, Ben’s Blog (www.bhorowitz.com), where he covers everything from how CEOs should hire executives to how to minimize politics in your company. He lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and three daughters.
Andy Rachleff
Member of the Board
Former General Partner of venture capital firm Benchmark Capital, Andy is on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches a variety of courses on technology entrepreneurship. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and is the Vice Chairman of their endowment investment committee. Andy earned his BS from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.