Paul Maritz, was President and General Manager of EMC Corporation’s Cloud Computing division. Maritz was a senior executive at Microsoft from 1986 to 2000, where he served on the 5-person executive management team. He was founder and CEO of Pi Corporation, a company backed by Warburg Pincus, which was acquired by EMC in February 2008. In July of 2008 he was appointed President and CEO of VMware, replacing Diane Greene.
His last position at Microsoft was as vice president of the Platforms Strategy and Developer Group. Born and raised in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), he attended the University of Cape Town where he studied computer science. Prior to working at Microsoft, he worked for Intel developing early tools to help developers write software for the then-new x86 platform.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Apture | 7/07 | Angel | $500k | 3 |
