In a business like venture capital, it’s all about people and how they work together as a team. That’s why I am thrilled to announce some new members of our team & two promotions!
Cack Wilhelm has joined us as Principal, with a focus on cloud infrastructure investments. Cack was with us last summer before finishing her MBA at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. During her summer here at ScaleVP, Cack focused on the twin themes of business processes being automated by algorithms and big data being analyzed for insight. Cack draws from her recent experience in tech sales at Hadoop company, Cloudera and before that, at Oracle. Her technology, sales and startup background is a perfect addition to our infrastructure team and our portfolio.
Cack is also a dedicated runner, racing professionally for Nike for two years at the 5,000m distance and competing in track & field and cross-country while an undergraduate at Princeton. She already has visions of us competing in corporate challenges so expect to see more of us on the track!
Next up, Rose Yuan joins us as Associate. Most recently Rose was an analyst with J.P. Morgan Chase in technology banking where she worked as part of the advisory team on the sale of ScaleVP portfolio company, ExactTarget to Salesforce. Rose will work with us on investments across the portfolio in the SaaS, Cloud and Mobile sectors.
And while we are excited about the new members of our team, we continue to invest in our existing team and are proud when they succeed, since they represent the future of our business.
Ariel Tseitlin has been promoted to Partner. He joined us almost a year ago from Netflix where he was Director of Cloud Solutions. Ariel has been a great addition to the team getting involved in all aspects of the business from joining portfolio boards, to working with Andy Vitus on further evolving our IT sector focus, and even recruiting an EIR for Scale. He has sourced a number of interesting new companies so expect us to be announcing a new investment with Ariel as the ScaleVP lead sometime soon.
I am also proud to announce that we have promoted Susan Liu to Senior Associate. Susan has become a key member of our investment team, working closely with our SaaS team on the sourcing and evaluation of deals. She has worked on a number of ScaleVP investments including Bill.com, Bizible, DemandBase and particularly WalkMe, which she sourced directly at an industry conference.
Finally, congrats to EIR Bill Burns who recently accepted the new CISO position at Informatica. Ariel introduced us to Bill who had been the Director of Information Security at Netflix. Bill was our most recent EIR, spearheading a research project where he examined the priorities for 100 CISOs, what innovations they’re focused on, and how they are planning to help businesses take smart risks. He hosted weekly brown bag lunches to educate us on the inner workings of information security organizations and keep us all informed on what he was learning from the contacts he has made through his work with the ISSA CISO Forum and RSA. The result from his research was insightful and continues to shape our investment thesis around security. As is always the case, our EIRs remain part of our network. Last week, Bill joined Ariel & Cack in co-hosting a roundtable dinner to talk about security with some of our closest IT relationships. Thanks, Bill, we wish you well!
