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Leadership Team

We were founded in the greater Denver area by a team of experts with decades of collective (broad/diverse) experience in data center architecture and software design. Our leadership team strives to bring innovation, simplicity, and change to all aspects of business, both within and outside of our organization.

Rick Hegberg, CEO

Rick Hegberg

Chief Executive Officer

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Dave Larson, President

Dave Larson

President

Dave is a Networking, Security and Storage industry veteran with more than 30 years’ experience leading innovation initiatives in emerging technology markets. Dave has had a blended focus for both business and technical strategy and has moved between CTO and business leadership roles for industry leading companies Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, 3Com Corporation, TippingPoint,Spirent, Corero, Sandburst (acquired by Broadcom), Tizor (acquired by Netezza/IBM) and Xedia (acquired by Lucent).

AJ Dye, CFO

AJ Dye

Chief Financial Officer

AJ is a results-driven operator and growth investor with over 20 years of global experience across a wide range of technology and tech-enabled services sectors. AJ has supported over $250 million of aggregate revenue growth in the C-suite and as a board member/observer, led over $60 million of debt and equity investments, and advised on M&A transactions and capital raises totaling over $1 billion. AJ is a passionate servant leader in the technology ecosystem, serving on several boards, including Share Mobility, KoreLock, and the Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association. He holds a BSBA from CU-Boulder and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Sumit Puri, Founder and CTO

Sumit Puri

Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Sumit is a data center industry veteran with over 30 years of experience. He has led technology roadmap development for major industry leaders, including Broadcom, LSI Logic, Fujitsu, and Toshiba. Sumit has a proven track record of bringing successful products to market, working across diverse teams in both large-scale enterprises and startups.

Tim Pitcher, CRO

Tim Pitcher

Chief Revenue Officer

Tim boasts a distinguished career as a Chief Revenue Officer, specializing in helping companies scale rapidly through strategic market penetration and partnerships. He has proven track record of building high-performing sales functions from the ground up and provides the strategic leadership and coaching necessary to build resilient, integrity-driven organizations. Tim has played roles in major industry milestones, including the $2.3B acquisition of 3PAR by HP and the $870M sale of SolidFire. He joined NetAppin 1998 to help build their EMEA and Northern Europe business and also worked at HPE and SUN Microsystems.

Eric Shiroke, CCO

Eric Shiroke

Chief Commercial Officer

Eric is a global executive leader with the ability to positively impact startups and Fortune 500 companies in sales, GTM strategy, business operations and establishing and leading high-performance teams. He consistently takes complex situations and distills them into actionable strategies such as the transition from a hardware-based cap-ex sales motion to a software-based op-ex sale. Eric is widely recognized for his ability to work cross functionally with other stake holders in developing and implementing GTM strategy as well as extensive M&A activities. He has served at Chief Customer Officer at Cinchy, VP of Sales Operations at NetApp, and held multiple Vice President roles at SanDisk(acquired by Western Digital) and Pliant Technology (acquired by SanDisk).

Board of Directors

With a broad range of expertise, our Board of Directors includes some of technology's leading luminaries.

Board of Directors

Ashish Puri, Board Member

Ashish Puri

Chairman, Partner, Lightrock
Ryan Pollock, Board Member

Ryan Pollock

Managing Director, Unifi Ventures
Rick Hegberg, Board Member

Rick Hegberg

CEO, Liqid
John Byrne, Board Member

John Byrne

Independent Director | Founder and CEO I Strategic Advisor | Senior Executive with Global Leadership

Board Advisors

Jens Gruenkeimer, Board Advisor

Jens Gruenkeimer

Global Head of Procurement, AWS
Rob Soni, Board Advisor

Rob Soni

General Partner, Matrix Partners
Edgar Masri, Board Advisor

Edgar Masri

Former CEO, Liqid
Roland Acra, Board Advisor

Roland Acra

Former SVP and CTO,
Cisco Data Center Group

Board Observers

Marty Friedman, Board Observer

Marty Friedman

Managing Director, Partner, Meadow Lane Advisors
Rob Adams, Board Observer

Rob Adams

Partner, InterAlpen
Andrea Gluscevic, Board Observer

Andrea Gluscevic

Investor, Lightrock

Our Investors

Peek behind the curtain

Our team is comprised of individuals with diverse backgrounds and skill sets. Each member makes up our backbone, contributing to why we are leaders in composable infrastructure technology and how we deliver continuous innovation to the data center sector.

A network that moves us

We are fortunate to be technology partners with some of world's leading IT organizations. These key relationships aid in bringing our ideas to fruition, allowing us to tremendously impact the digital world.

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