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.
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.
Mike Olson
Cloudera
Mike was formerly CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. Mike spent two years at Oracle Corporation as Vice President for Embedded Technologies after Oracle’s acquisition of Sleepycat in 2006. Prior to joining Sleepycat, Mike held technical and business positions at database vendors Britton Lee, Illustra Information Technologies and Informix Software. Mike has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Jeff Hammerbacher
Cloudera
Prior to joining Cloudera, Jeff conceived, built, and led the Data team at Facebook. The Data team was responsible for inventing and building powerful data analysis applications on Hadoop. That system is the core data platform at Facebook for improving the user experience and driving revenue. Before he joined Facebook, Jeff worked as a quantitative analyst on Wall Street. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics from Harvard University.
Scott Dietzen
Pure Storage
Scott Dietzen is currently CEO at Pure Storage, and prior to that was a three-time successful entrepreneur with WebLogic, Zimbra, and Transarc. Most recently, he was President and CTO of Zimbra, a vendor of open source messaging and collaboration software. Zimbra (now part of VMware) was a pioneer of the Web 2.0 and Open Core paradigms. Zimbra was originally acquired by Yahoo!, where Dietzen served as interim SVP of Communications and Communities. Prior to Zimbra, Dietzen was CTO of BEA Systems — acquired by Oracle in 2008, where he helped craft the technology and business strategy for WebLogic. Dietzen came to BEA in 1998 via the acquisition of WebLogic, an innovator in Java and web application server technology. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

