Kathryn Hirsch Email Address

Vice President, Sales Strategy, Enablement and Operations

Rubrik provides the industry's first Converged Data Management appliance, delivering automated backup, instant recovery, unlimited replication, and data archival at infinite scale. Rubrik is built by key engineers behind Google, Facebook, VMware, and Data Domain. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Rubrik has raised over $51 million from Greylock Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and enterprise IT luminaries, including John W. Thompson (Microsoft Chairman, Symantec Former CEO), Frank Slootman (ServiceNow CEO, Data Domain Former CEO), and Mark Leslie (Leslie Ventures, Veritas Founding CEO). Rubrik has been named to Gartner's Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2016.

I am senior-level technology leader with 20+ years in operations, sales, marketing, business unit leadership, products and marketing. My employers have included large-scale global organizations as well as startups. The common thread throughout my diverse background is change. Whether helping to start-up a company, turn around an underperforming business, or facilitate rapid growth, I’m at my best when serving as a change catalyst, setting the vision, developing the plans and overseeing teams to execute effectively. Specialties: Strategic Planning /Execution * Go-to-Market Strategies * New Market Penetration * M&A Integration Leadership * P&L Management * Sales Operations * Sales Enablement * Large Channel OEM/VAR Organizations * Enterprise Software * Product Portfolio Rationalization * Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) * Cloud-based Technologies * Process Design/Reengineering| Organizational Structure and Design * Cross-Functional Team Leadership * KPI Improvements