Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Jason has been involved in building early-stage startups, evangelizing new product categories, and leading go-to-market planning for new technologies for over 20 years. He joined two of his four startups as one of the first dozen employees and as the first non-engineering, business executive. Both of these companies were acquired for hundreds of
millions of dollars, returning 3-10x to investors – Neoteris acquired by Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), and LightCyber acquired by Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW). Jason also led the public offering marketing efforts (S-1 development, analyst meetings, et al) for networking startup, A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN). Jason spent the early part of his career leading product management at Cisco Systems, and contributed to the spectacular absolute growth and market share dominance of Cisco’s multi-billion dollar fixed configuration switching platforms during the 1990s. During all of these experiences, Jason led product management and marketing efforts that ultimately led to the development of multiple new product categories and recognition by Gartner, Inc. as a category “Leader.”
In the middle of his career, Jason digressed from the startup executive operational path to pursue early-stage venture investing with Battery Ventures, a multi-billion dollar firm with offices globally. At Battery, he built and led the firm’s cleantech investment team. During this time, Jason invested in and served on the board of directors of 8 companies that resulted in 3 acquisitions and 2 others that are still thriving. The ultimate implosion of the cleantech startup sector was an incredibly harrowing but rewarding experience where Jason learned the ultimate entrepreneur’s lesson – that failure is a humbling and sometimes necessary pathway to finding success.
