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Chief Technology Officer

Replace unstructured work patterns with intelligent workflows. Improve service levels, energize employees, and enable your enterprise to Work At Lightspeed.

CTO at Shopify - Make Commerce Better for Everyone === Was SVP Engineering at Slack - Where Work Happens Was Chief Technology Officer for ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) - the Enterprise Cloud Company. Previously was Chief Technology Officer - Infrastructure for Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), the leader in social gaming. Lived inside of a VC firm and was a Venture Partner at Panorama Capital (previously JPMorgan Partners) who focused on network and systems technology investments. Founder of Vyatta, the leader in open source networking (acquired by NASDAQ: BRCD). CTO and VP Internetwork Engineering for Digital Island (NASDAQ: ISLD). Spent 7 years at Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) in the early days. Co-authored “Cisco Router Configuration” (Cisco Press) and “Network Management: A Practical Perspective” (Addison-Wesley). Granted a patent in the field of data routing with other patents pending in the field of network route optimization. Specialties: Cloud computing, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Internet architectures and infrastructure.