Lessons learned in a long history with startups
- 14:00 9th October 2013165 - Lecture Theatre B
What ideas are worth doing? How do investors think of businesses? How should you manage your money? How should you hire? When do you hire sales and marketing folks? What to avoid!
Speaker bio
Ash has a long successful career of startups and leadership roles in the technology sector, including:Advisor to CEO Kontagent Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry July 2012 – Present
Chairman, Knobout July 2012 – Present Big data and analytics startup
Chairman Terabitz Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry July 2007 – Present
CTO Yahoo! Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Internet industry October 2011 – June 2012
CEO MSC Software Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry January 2009 – October 2009 Stepped in off the Board to restructure the company. Improved stock price from $4.50 to $8.40 per share with exit to PE firm. Exit price for company was $400M+
Board Member - chair of comp, member audit MSC Software Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry July 2005 – October 2009 Served on various committees including governance & nominating, audit and compensation. concluded with chairing compensation committee. Actively participated with recruiting of CFO and eventually replacing management.
CEO AFK Inc. California April 2002 – April 2008 Consulting company that provided services to PE firms for due diligence and acquisitions. Spun out Caching Appliance Business from NetApp with Francisco Partners and merged it with Blue Coat Systems.
CEO Level 5 Networks Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry December 2005 – June 2006 Stepped in to finish company product and merge with Solarflare
CEO Radiance Technologies Inc. Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Defense & Space industry July 2000 – November 2005 Founder and CEO of software company that focused on reliable delivery of large datasets across unreliable networks. Developed unique algorithms for routing and data delivery. Applied for several patents
Board Member Vivecon May 2000 – February 2004 Company developed analytics software and mathematical models to model risk in contracts. Recruited management team and worked closely with technical team to produce product.
CEO SpecialtyMD June 1998 – March 2000 CEO of startup that provided the very first video streaming solutions integrated with clinical trials information for specialty physicians. Company was sold to Chemdex for $120M+
Corporate Vice President Factory Automation Applied Materials Public Company; 10,001+ employees; AMAT; Semiconductors industry November 1996 – July 1997 CVP responsible for embedded software. helped with consilium acquisition.
VP Enterprise Business Silicon Graphics Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; SGI; Computer Hardware industry February 1992 – June 1996 Served in various capacities at the company including Director of Compilers & Development Environments, OS, Data Warehousing etc. Ran enterprise server business which was over $300M
Director Oracle Corporation Public Company; 10,001+ employees; ORCL; Information Technology and Services industry 1988 – 1992
Research Staff Member IBM Public Company; 10,001+ employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry May 1984 – July 1985 RSM at IBM Almaden Laboratory. Worked on parallel machines, computer science theory and scheduling problems.
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