Primary Job Title SVP, Business Development and Alliances Primary Organization 
Quobyte
Location Cupertino, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Ilan Shmargad is the SVP of Business Development and Alliances at Quobyte. He is a strategic, creative, rainmaker (3 strategic exits of $100M+) and high performance exec. with over 25 years of leadership in technology companies, effectively developing and scaling business globally.
Ilan played a critical executive role in these strategic exits:
Neebula systems: acquired by ServiceNow (NYSE NOW) for $100M Kidaro: acquired by Microsoft for $100M Identify Software: acquired by BMC (NYSE: BMC) for $150M
He scaled early/late-stage startups from zero up to $52M bookings; Personally closed deals worth 10s Millions of dollars with partners and customers; Headed US/International business operations for startup/spin-off initiatives of public companies; Built and led BD/Channels operations contributing 34%-57% of total revenues; Hired and managed highly motivated, top performing teams of up to 48 people; Part of corporate strategy/development teams, identifying/working with in-bound candidates; Cofounded disruptive social network B2B startup, defining the early positioning, GoToMarket strategy, signed 100s of prospective customers, developed key partnerships; Involved in effectively raising funds from strategic investors/VCs/Angels at high valuations
