Our team

A serial entrepreneur and global executive, Alexander has been CEO at two previous firms and has run global sales teams for three companies that went IPO. He held analyst and executive positions at leading research companies such as The Boston Consulting Group and Forrester Research along with Silicon Valley startups such as ValiCert, Sygate, and SyncTV.

Peter is an MIT and Stanford trained technologist who has worked in a variety of software verticals including security, enterprise, email, and video. He has built products and teams at a number of large technology companies such as RSA Security and Perot Systems, as well as at small startups like Tout, Securant, and Swapt.

John has an extensive track record of driving rapid revenue growth at innovative technology companies. Most recently, John led sales and business development for the Americas at ThreatMetrix. John’s team delivered over 75% of the company’s revenue, contributing to the $830 million acquisition by LexisNexis Risk Solutions in 2018. Prior to ThreatMetrix, Lindner served in executive positions at Solariat, IBM, Celequest, and Inktomi.

A seasoned software-marketing executive with 25 years’ experience across a variety of technology areas. David is an award-winning innovator in the use of social media and digital mediums for B2B marketing. His campaigns have been covered in the NY Times, AdWeek, across social media & Hollywood. Throughout his career, David has helped to generate billions of dollars through acquisition and IPOs.

William brings nearly 20 years of experience leading product and engineering teams in the Financial Services. During that time, William led product development for one of the first biometric based payment processing platforms. Co-founded a start-up, Golden Gateway Financial, which provided Reverse Mortgage services. While at PayPal, William led the redesign and implementation of all platform services and capabilities, micro-services and a hybrid cloud architecture. As Vice President of Product of Valimail, William defines and leads product development and strategy. When not working, he is doing one of two things: golfing or spending time with his two young boys, Dominic and Gabriel.

Steve has a history of building profitable companies. He’s built 6 early-stage technology companies—one that has gone IPO, 2 that have gone to acquisition, and 2 that have remained profitable including InfoBlox, Metric Insights, and IP Infusion. He’s also been an advisor within the VC community and advises startups on go-to-market best practices.

James heads our Talent and People function and brings years of recruiting and HR experience growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. He’s scaled organizations and built global recruiting teams at the seed-stage to post-acquisition with companies such as Pivotal, Nitro, FiveStars, Safeway, and various companies in the hospitality industry.

A serial entrepreneur and global executive, Alexander has been CEO at two previous firms and has run global sales teams for three companies that went IPO. He held analyst and executive positions at leading research companies such as The Boston Consulting Group and Forrester Research along with Silicon Valley startups such as ValiCert, Sygate, and SyncTV.

Peter is an MIT and Stanford trained technologist who has worked in a variety of software verticals including security, enterprise, email, and video. He has built products and teams at a number of large technology companies such as RSA Security and Perot Systems, as well as at small startups like Tout, Securant, and Swapt.

John De Santis is a company builder with experience in networking, network operations software, data center infrastructure software, identity management, and security. He has over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing, software development, and general management at venture-backed technology start-ups as well as public companies.

Prior to HyTrust, he was VP, Cloud Services for VMware, Chairman & CEO of TriCipher (acquired by VMware), a venture partner and entrepreneur-in-residence at Trident Capital, and CEO of Sygate (acquired by Symantec).

Brian focuses on enterprise investments, including infrastructure and application software. He enjoys helping teams navigate the challenges they face as they build their companies. Brian co-founded Tenaya Capital, and prior to that was a partner at Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. Brian holds an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. from Wake Forest University.

As a Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, Jason is an active investor in enterprise cloud computing and mobility, commerce, open source software, SaaS, security and social networks. Jason is Shasta’s lead investor in and currently serves on the Boards of Valimail, CloudPassage, Glint, Leanplum, Nextdoor, Smule, and Zuora, among others. He is also responsible for numerous past investments with successful exits.

Prior to joining Shasta in 2005, Jason was VP, Strategy and Operations at Walmart.com, where he took the online retailer from zero to large scale revenue in five years.