Ashmeet Sidana

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Mr. Ashmeet Sidana is the Founder & serves as Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital. He serves as Board Member at Kognitos. He served as a Board Member at ShiftRight. He serves as Board Member at Nexla. He serves as Board Member at Parallel (San Francisco). He also serves as an Advisor at Good Startup. He serves as an Advisor at Dataworkz. He serves as a Board Member at Nimbella. He served as Board Member at Passage AI. He served as Board Member at Sail Internet. He served as Board Member at Glasnostic, Concentric, and Prismo Systems. He served as a Board Observer at Kontain and Onymos. He serves as Board Member & Advisor at Tignis. His experience includes managing venture capital funds, serving on multiple Boards of Directors, and helping build the industry-leading products VMware ESX Server and Silicon Graphics WebFORCE. Before his last decade as a venture capitalist, he was an operating executive with hands-on operating experience as a Chief Executive Officer and entrepreneur. He came to venture from VMware, where he ran product management for their flagship product-ESX Server. Before VMware, he founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Sidana Systems, Inc. He started his career at Hewlett Packard and Silicon Graphics as an engineer. His previous investments include Azure (NYSE: AZRE), Palerra (acquired by Oracle), Freewheel (acquired by Comcast), InQuira (acquired by Oracle), Altor (acquired by Juniper), Appurify (acquired by Google), PrivateCore (acquired by Facebook) and StackStorm (acquired by Brocade). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Baffle, RuperBot, Sail Internet, vFunction, and Xockets. His current investments include Baffle, Binaris, Rubrik, Diamanti, Gyroscope, Kentik, Menlo Security, Netsil, Nexla, Prismo Systems, RuperBot, Sail Internet, SignalFx, vFunction, Xockets, and YotaScale. He received an MBA from Wharton, MS in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BS in Computer Science summa cum laude from USC. He served as an Advisor at Cypherpath. He serves as Board Member & Advisor at Yotascale.