Board of Directors
Aneel Bhusri
Greylock Partners
Aneel Bhusri joined Greylock in 1999 from PeopleSoft, where he was named vice chairman after several years as the company’s senior vice president in charge of product strategy, business development and marketing.
Aneel currently serves on the boards of Cloudera, Data Domain (acquired by EMC), Data Robotics, Simply Continuous, SunEdison and Workday. In addition to PeopleSoft, Aneel formerly served on the boards of PolyServe (acquired by HP), Corio (acquired by IBM), OutlookSoft (acquired by SAP), Marimba (acquired by BMC Software), Perfigo (acquired by Cisco), SeeBeyond, (acquired by Sun Microsystems) and Vantive (acquired by PeopleSoft). Aneel also represented Greylock’s investment in Unicru (acquired by Kronos). Aneel was named to the Forbes Midas List in both 2009 (#8) and 2008 (#16).
At PeopleSoft, Aneel was responsible for developing product strategy as well as guiding corporate and product marketing. He also led the company’s business development efforts in key areas such as new product development, vertical market initiatives and corporate expansion. Prior to PeopleSoft, Aneel held positions in both venture capital and corporate finance.
Aneel holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science and Arts in electrical engineering and economics from Brown University.
Andrew Braccia
Accel Partners
Andrew Braccia joined Accel in 2007, bringing with him a decade of operational and leadership experience. His primary areas of investment interest include consumer Internet and software businesses with a focus on Web search, digital media and online advertising. In addition to Cloudera, Andrew currently sits on the boards of High Gear Media, a next-generation automotive content and advertising network; OpenX, the world’s leading open source ad server; SB Nation, the leading sports blog network; and TRUSTe, a provider of online privacy certification.
Prior to Accel, Andrew held a variety of senior roles in business development, general management and operations with Yahoo! He began his career with Yahoo! in 1998, as a member of the company’s early business development team. Most recently he served as the vice president of Yahoo! Search, where he was responsible for all business and operational aspects of Yahoo!’s consumer search business. In this capacity, he played a key role in helping to lead the company’s entry into the social search arena with the launch of Yahoo! Answers and the acquisition and integration of Del.icio.us.
Previously, as vice president of business operations for the Yahoo! Search and Marketplace group, Andrew oversaw the business planning and financial performance of multiple Yahoo! businesses. Andrew also served as vice president and general manager of Yahoo!’s Marketplace division, which includes Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Real Estate and Yahoo! Autos – all leading commerce sites in their respective categories under his leadership.
Andrew graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.
Ping Li
Accel Partners
Ping Li joined Accel in 2004 and focuses primarily on information technology infrastructure and digital media platforms. His areas of interest also include datacenter virtualization, cloud computing, distributed data management and Internet datacenter scalability. He currently is an investor/board member of BitTorrent, Cloudera, Mochi Media, Mu Dynamics, Raptr, Verivue and YuMe, and he is actively involved in Imperva. Ping was also responsible for Accel’s investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco).
Prior to Accel, Ping was a senior product line manager and director of corporate development at Juniper Networks. He managed Juniper’s flagship M-series router product portfolio. In addition, Ping worked on Juniper’s acquisition of NetScreen Technologies (a $3.5 billion transaction) and led all subsequent security and routing product and R&D integration activities. He also worked as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies.
Ping holds an A.B. from Harvard University, with honors, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Scott Dietzen
Scott Dietzen has extensive leadership experience, having helped build, sell, and transition three major Internet technology companies. Most recently, he was SVP, Applications at Yahoo!, where his responsibilities included Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Flickr, Answers, Groups, and Zimbra. He came to Yahoo! via the acquisition of open source email startup Zimbra, where he served as President and CTO. Before that Dietzen was CTO of BEA Systems — acquired by Oracle in 2008 — which he came to with the acquisition of Java and web application server pioneer WebLogic. Dietzen holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon.
