Board of Directors
Dan Wright
Chief Executive Officer
Jai Das
Managing Director, Sapphire Ventures
Tony Florence
General Partner, NEA
Jit Saxena
Board Member, Investor, and Entrepreneur
Chuck Robel
Independent Director and Chair of the Audit Committee
Sigal Zarmi
Senior Advisor at Morgan Stanley
Mark Hawkins
President and CFO Emeritus Advisor for Salesforce
James I. Cash, Ph.D
Emeritus James E. Robinson Professor of the Harvard Business School
Dr. Amit Sinha
President, CTO, and Board Member at Zscaler
Dev Ittycheria
President & CEO, MongoDB
Tracey Newell
Board Member
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Chief Executive Officer
Dan Wright currently serves as CEO of DataRobot, the AI Cloud leader. He drives the strategic direction of the company to enable organizations around the world to solve their most pressing business and societal challenges with AI.
Dan has extensive experience driving growth and operational excellence at disruptive technology companies. Previously, he served as the COO of AppDynamics. During the nearly seven years that Dan worked at AppDynamics, it became the largest and fastest-growing application performance management (APM) vendor. It was named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for APM for seven years in a row and recognized as one of Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. In 2017, AppDynamics was acquired by Cisco for $3.7 billion. Following the acquisition, it continued its aggressive growth as a part of Cisco.
Dan is also an investor, board member, and advisor to leading startup companies such as Abnormal Security, Avi Networks (acquired by VMware), Ironclad, LogDNA, People.ai, and Quantum Metric. He is a Co-Founder of the Jordan Zapper Memorial Scholarship and a member of the Dean’s Council at Boston College.
Dan lives in San Francisco, CA, with his family.

Managing Director, Sapphire Ventures
Jai is a partner, president and co-founder at Sapphire Ventures. He invests in startups he believes are developing ground-breaking products and services, and have embarked on their journey to become a company of consequence. He has more than 15 years of experience helping companies innovate their product and marketing strategies in order to scale and become market leaders.
Thirteen of Jai’s investments have become publicly traded companies and more than 15 have been acquired. Jai is currently a member of the board (director or observer) at Catchpoint [catchpoint.com], CircleCI [circleci.com], Clari [clari.com], DataRobot, Narrative Science [narrativescience.com], OpsRamp [opsramp.com], PubNub [pubnub.com], Splashtop [splashtop.com], [sumologic.com] Tetrate [tetrate.io], ThoughtSpot, [thoughtspot.com] UJET [ujet.co], Uptycs [uptycs.com], and Verbit [verbit.ai]. He also led the firm’s investments in Privacera [privacera.com] and Netskope [netskope.com].

General Partner, NEA
Tony is a general partner at NEA and leads the firm’s Consumer Internet and Venture Growth Equity investment practices. Tony focuses on investments in the internet and software sectors and is on the board of directors for several companies, including Care.com (NYSE: CRM), Casper, CCP Games, DataRobot, Duolingo, EverFi, Goop, Jet.com, Letgo, Moda Operandi, Raise.com, Tamara Mellon, and Wallapop. He led the firm’s investment in Quidsi (Diapers.com), which was acquired by Amazon in 2011, Jet.com, which was acquired by Walmart in 2016, and Cvent (NYSE: CVT), which was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2016. Prior to joining NEA, he was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and was Head of Technology Banking in New York. He was also a member of the North American Management Committee for investment banking. Tony received an MBA and an AB in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Board Member, Investor, and Entrepreneur
Jit has a long and successful career of entrepreneurship and business leadership in growing new global industries. As founder, chairman, and CEO of Netezza, the leading provider of data analytics and monitoring appliances, Saxena led its initial public offering and its acquisition by IBM for $1.7 billion in 2010. Saxena also founded and led Applix, a leader in analytical CRM software, which he took public in 1994. At this stage in his career Jit is interested in working with strong teams with big ideas and plans to build a very scalable business.

Independent Director and Chair of the Audit Committee
Chuck Robel is currently the Chairman of the Board of GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name registrar and one of the world’s largest web hosting providers for consumers and small businesses. Previously he was the Chairman of the Board of McAfee Inc. prior to its approximately $8 billion acquisition by Intel. In addition, he was the Lead Director of Informatica, Inc., the largest independent data integration company prior to its acquisition by the Permira private equity group for $5.5 billion in 2015. In 2016 he was Chairman of the Audit Committee of Blue Coat, a leading security vendor, assisting with its proposed IPO prior to its sale to Symantec for approximately $4.7 billion. Until early 2017 he was the Lead Director for AppDynamics during both its IPO listing process and subsequent $3.7 billion sale to Cisco. Previously he had served as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee at Palo Alto Networks, Borland, Adaptec, Jive Software, Model N, and DemandTec.

Senior Advisor at Morgan Stanley
Sigal Zarmi is an award-winning CIO with over 30 years of experience in large-scale digital transformation, strategic planning, technology operations, leadership and talent development. She is currently a Senior Advisor at Morgan Stanley and a nonexecutive board member at ADT Inc. and Hashicorp. As recently as June 2021, Zarmi served as the International CIO and Global Head of Transformation for Morgan Stanley. Prior to Morgan Stanley, she held executive leadership positions at PwC and GE Capital.

President and CFO Emeritus Advisor for Salesforce
Mark Hawkins serves as President and CFO Emeritus Advisor for Salesforce. Hawkins has more than 35 years of experience leading finance organizations at global software and technology companies including Salesforce, Autodesk, Logitech, Dell, and Hewlett-Packard. During Hawkins’ tenure at Salesforce, the company entered the S&P 500 and Dow Jones 30 Industrial indexes and its market capitalization value increased by over $200 billion.

Emeritus James E. Robinson Professor of the Harvard Business School
James I. Cash, Ph.D. served on a number of public, private and non-profit boards, including Wal-Mart, General Electric, Chubb and Microsoft. Among his non-profit boards he served as an Advisory Council member of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture since its founding in 2003 until 2020, and as a Trustee for Massachusetts General Hospital and Partners Healthcare. Under the umbrella of The Cash Catalyst, he runs personal development programs for executives in Global 500 organizations. Dr. Cash is an Emeritus James E. Robinson Professor of the Harvard Business School, where he served as Chair of the MBA Program, and Chair of Harvard Business Publishing, before his retirement as Senior Associate Dean in 2003.

President, CTO, and Board Member at Zscaler
Dr. Amit Sinha currently serves as President, CTO, and Board Member at Zscaler. He has over 20 years of technology, strategy, and entrepreneurial experience leading category-creating businesses at Zscaler, Motorola, AirDefense and Engim. Dr. Sinha has a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the inventor of over 30 U.S. patents.

President & CEO, MongoDB
Dev Ittycheria has over two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, investor, and leader specializing in high-growth software companies. He currently serves as the President & CEO of MongoDB. Prior to MongoDB, Ittycheria was the Co-founder & CEO of BladeLogic and the President of BMC Software. He is also the Lead Independent Director at Datadog and has served on the boards of several other leading technology companies, including AppDynamics and athenahealth. Ittycheria founded his first technology company in 1998, and his leadership and board roles have resulted in five IPOs and two significant acquisitions.

Board Member
Tracey Newell brings over 20 years driving go-to-market strategy at high-growth software companies to DataRobot. She currently serves on the boards of SailPoint, Sumo Logic and Highspot, and is an advisor for Blackrock’s Long Term Private Capital Group. Newell is the former President of Informatica, where she was responsible for global sales, marketing, sales operations and customer success. Prior to joining Informatica, Newell was EVP of Global Field Operations at Proofpoint and was recognized as a Top 100 Sales Leader by The Modern Sale. She also serves in a non-profit organization known as Impact100, whose mission is to bring women together to make an impact in their local and global communities.