Board of Directors
Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner, Battery Ventures
Neeraj Agrawal is a General Partner at Battery Ventures, leading investments for the firm in enterprise software/SaaS, technology-enabled services and Internet companies. He was a founding investor in BladeLogic (acquired by BMC). His additional investments include Applimation (acquired by Informatica), Bazaarvoice, Brightree, Guidewire Software, Groupon (GRPN), Internet Brands (NASDAQ: INET), Omniture (acquired by Adobe), RealPage (NASDAQ: RP), and Wayfair (formerly CSN Stores).
Neeraj joined Battery in 2000 and prior to that, he worked as a product manager at Real Networks, an operating executive at SkyTV, and a management consultant with Booz-Allen. Neeraj holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from Cornell University as well as an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School. He is a Charter Member of TiE, an active advisor to several local entrepreneurs, and was named to the Forbes Midas List in 2011.
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Susan L. Bostrom
Sue Bostrom is former executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Cisco Systems. With almost 14 years at Cisco Systems in a variety of roles and more than 20 years of strategic marketing experience, she was responsible for developing and communicating Cisco’s vision and strategy through positioning, branding, advertising, and product marketing. She also had responsibility for the Worldwide Government Affairs organization and Cisco’s Small Business Council. Ms. Bostrom also served as the executive sponsor of the Women’s Initiative at Cisco from 2001 through 2004.
Prior to her role as Cisco’s chief marketing officer, Ms. Bostrom built and led the Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), bringing vertical expertise and Internet business best practices to Global Fortune 500 companies and heads of state. Previously, Ms. Bostrom held leadership positions at FTP Software, National Semiconductor and McKinsey & Company.
She currently serves on the board of directors for Varian Medical Systems, Cadence Design Systems, Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She also serves on the advisory board of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) and the Stanford Graduate School Business Advisory Council.
Ms. Bostrom holds an MBA degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and BS degree in marketing from the University of Illinois, graduating in the top 1% of her class.
Phil Fernandez, President and CEO, Marketo
Phil is a Silicon Valley veteran, with 30 years of experience (including a couple of successful IPOs) in building and managing breakout technology companies. Before Marketo, he was president and COO of Epiphany, a public enterprise software company known for its visionary marketing products. Formerly, Phil was COO and SVP of products and services at Red Brick Systems and held leadership positions at Metaphor Computer Systems, Stanford University Medical Center, and Masstor Systems. He is author of Revenue Disruption, published by John Wiley and Sons, which delivers bold new strategies for any company to transform its sales and marketing to accelerate revenue growth. He has been named one of the "50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management" three years running and BtoB Magazine acknowledged him as a “Who’s Who” in B-to-B Demand Generation in both 2010 and 2011. Phil holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University.
Tae Hea Nahm, General Partner, Storm Ventures
Tae Hea Nahm is a founding general partner of Storm Ventures focusing on mobile and SaaS. His current mobile investments include: AirPlug, Averail, Com2uS, MobileIron, Modo Labs and Silego; and prior, AireSpace/founding CEO (Cisco), Berkana/co-Chairman (Qualcomm), MCubeWorks (CoreLogic) and JetCell (Cisco). His current SaaS investments include: Cloudwords and Marketo – and Averail, MobileIron and Modo; and prior, Access360 (IBM), EchoSign (Adobe) and OSA Technologies (Avocent). He was previously a partner at Venture Law Group and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, and holds an AB in Applied Math from Harvard College and a JD from University of Chicago Law School.
Doug Pepper, General Partner, InterWest Partners
Doug Pepper has been with InterWest's IT group since 2000, investing in SaaS, digital media and consumer Internet companies. Pepper has led investments including Marketo, Tapjoy, Flurry, Varolii, Spredfast, Brand.net, and INVIDI. He also co-led InterWest's investment in Lombardi Software which was acquired by IBM. Pepper has played a defining role in InterWest's investment activities in the SaaS and Digital Media spaces. Previously, Pepper has worked in business development at Amazon.com, helping launch Amazon's Auctions and Z-Shops businesses. Prior to Amazon.com, Pepper was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York focusing primarily on technology and healthcare. In this role, Pepper also spent time in Hong Kong, working with technology clients in China, India and Korea. Pepper received his B.A. from Dartmouth College, and his M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Roger Siboni
Roger S. Siboni has been a member of the Marketo Board of Directors since 2011. Roger was the Chairman and former CEO of Epiphany, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent customer interaction software. Before joining Epiphany, Roger was Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of KPMG Peat Marwick—a $9 billion, 85,000 person worldwide accounting and consulting organization. As COO, Roger led the firm to consecutive years of record revenue and profitability. Prior to becoming Deputy Chairman, as head of KPMG's Technology Practice, he grew that business by over 250 percent in his four years of leadership. Roger currently serves on numerous boards including Dolby and Cadence Design Systems, and has served on the boards of FileNet, Macromedia, ArcSight, InfoGroup, Active Software and Postini. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Roger is past Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Walter A. Hass School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.
Wes Wasson, Former Chief Marketing Officer, Citrix
Wes Wasson is the former senior vice president and chief marketing officer of Citrix, an industry leader in mobility, collaboration and cloud computing, and one of the top ten SaaS vendors in the world. During his tenure at Citrix, Wes was a key driver of the business, product and go-to-market strategy that helped Citrix grow from a single-product company, to a multi-billion dollar industry leader. A frequent keynote speaker who consistently ranked among the top CMOs in high tech, Wes has also been recognized by the Bay Area News Group as the top executive leader in Silicon Valley based on surveys of Silicon Valley companies and their employees.
The former Sun Microsystems and Network Associates executive brings an extensive track record of success to the Marketo board, with nearly 20 years of experience building and growing enterprise software companies. At Sun, Wes served as vice president in the Java Enterprise System line of business, where he helped Sun achieve number one market share positions across several industry segments. Prior to Sun, he held several senior leadership positions at Network Associates, where he helped them grow from a $200M single product company into a $1B industry leader in networking and security in just under four years.