Board of Directors
Ben Nye
Ben Nye is a Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Ben
was a Senior Vice President at Veritas Software. Previously, he was COO and CFO of Precise Software
Solutions, and helped build Precise from a $10 M revenue private company to a $100 M revenue public
company prior to its sale to Veritas. Earlier in his career Ben was a Principal at Allied Capital, a
$3.5 B public investment firm. He also worked in the U.S. Treasury Department for Treasury Secretaries
Lloyd Bentsen and Robert Rubin, and as a consultant for Mercer Management Consulting. Ben graduated
from Harvard College and Harvard Business School, where he graduated with honors.
Salil Deshpande
Salil Deshpande is General Partner at Bay Partners. Salil has invested across two themes: (1) open source,
enterprise software, and middleware, and (2) infrastructure and apps over social graphs. These include dynaTrace
(continuous performance management), SpringSource (open source; acquired by VMware), G2One (open source; Groovy
and Grails; acquired by SpringSource), Sonatype/Maven (open source artifact management), Engine Yard (open source;
Ruby on Rails), MuleSoft (open source ESBs), Jambool (virtual currency and payments; acquired by Google), Lending
Club (peer to peer lending), Buddy Media (brand management on Facebook), and approximately a dozen others. Prior to Bay,
Salil was a hard core developer in CORBA and Java middleware, taught summer courses at Stanford University, and
was founder and CEO of Customware, a CORBA Services company (acquired by Visigenic, which later became part of
Borland), co-founder and CEO of The Middleware Company (acquired by Precise, now part of Symantec), and of
TheServerSide.com network of social media sites (acquired by TechTarget). Salil has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering
from Cornell University, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Shimon Alon
Shimon Alon serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Attunity. Previously Mr Alon was CEO of
Precise Software Solutions, a leading provider of application performance management. Following the
acquisition of Precise by VERITAS Software Corporation in June 2003, Mr. Alon served as an executive
advisor to VERITAS. Prior to Precise Software, Mr. Alon held a number of positions at Scitex and its
subsidiaries including President and Chief Executive Officer of Scitex America and Managing Director
of Scitex Europe. Mr. Alon holds a degree from the Executive Management Program at the Harvard Business
School.
Cosmo Santullo
Mr. Santullo brings more than thirty years of executive experience in building and leading successful
technology companies to dynaTrace. He recently spent four years as senior vice president of worldwide
sales and services with BMC Software, a leader in systems management. He began his career at IBM, building
and scaling large organizations for 20 years in a variety of sales and marketing roles, culminating
as general manager of IBM’s $8Bn North American personal systems division. Mr. Santullo subsequently
served as EMC’s senior vice president of global marketing. Prior to his role at BMC, Mr. Santullo spent
several years as a CEO, Board member, and advisor to a variety of early stage and public technology
companies.
John Van Siclen, President and CEO
With over twenty-five years of leadership in the computer system and software business, John Van Siclen brings a wealth of experience to dynaTrace. Over his career, Mr. Van Siclen has held senior executive positions at a number of highly successful growth companies such as Interwoven, Informix and NetFRAME Systems. In addition, he has served as CEO at publicly-traded and venture-backed companies, including Interwoven (NASDAQ:IWOV), Adesso Systems, and Perspecta (acquired by Excite@Home). As CEO, Mr. Van Siclen is responsible for driving dynaTrace’s leadership in Continuous Application Performance Management, and advancing customer success in applying dynaTrace’s solution to make application performance an integral part of the application development lifecycle. Mr. Van Siclen holds an AB from Princeton, and is a Founding Fellow in New England’s Clean Energy executive program.
Bernd Greifeneder, CTO and Founder
As CTO, Bernd Greifeneder leads dynaTrace’s vision for Continuous APM, and has guided dynaTrace R&D from its founding in 2005, earning numerous awards for software innovation. He also served as CEO from 2005 to 2008, leading dynaTrace to consecutive quarters of record growth. As Co-Founder of ARC, Bernd developed SQL.Bench.Web which, through subsequent mergers with Segue and Borland, has become the core technology behind products such as Borland’s SilkPerformer® and SilkCentral TestManager™. In addition, Bernd’s work on production monitoring became BMC TMART, a core offering of BMC Software. Bernd has nine technology patents pending in the United States, and holds an MS from Johannes Kepler University.
Investors
Bain Capital Ventures
Bain Capital Ventures is the Boston-based venture capital arm of Bain Capital, whose affiliates manage
over $50 billion of assets. Founded in 1984, Bain Capital and its affiliates have invested in over 250
companies with such notable successes as Doubleclick, Gartner Group and Staples. Bain’s history of investing
in early stage companies also dates back to 1984, having made over 121 venture-stage investments since
inception. In 2001, Bain Capital Ventures was formed as a separate arm of Bain Capital to focus exclusively
on growth investments. Bain Capital Ventures currently has close to $1 billion under management.
Bay Partners
Bay Partners, a Silicon Valley-based early stage venture capital firm focusing on software, consumer
Internet, semiconductor and wireless investments, has been building successful technology companies
since 1976, funding more than 350 startups. Bay leverages the operating backgrounds of its partners
and its extensive network of executives and advisors to help outstanding entrepreneurs create the leaders
in new, high-growth market segments. Notable successes from Bay´s portfolio include Brocade, Concord
Communications, Exodus, Sonicwall, Placeware, Informatica, Web Logic, Digital Island and NetScaler.
Bay is currently investing its eleventh venture fund and has over $1 billion under management.