Doug Merritt is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Aviatrix. Most recently, Doug served as Splunk President and CEO from 2015 to 2021. During his tenure as CEO, Doug led the transformation of Splunk from an on premise, perpetual license software company with the equivalent of $220 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR), to a cloud-based SaaS company with ARR of $3.12 billion. In his first year at Splunk, Doug served as the Senior Vice President of Splunk’s go-to-market functions including sales, marketing, support, business development, partners, and other customer facing functions.

Prior to joining Splunk, Doug served as Senior Vice President of Products and Solutions Marketing at Cisco from 2012 to 2014. From 2011 to 2012, he served as CEO of Baynote, a behavioral personalization and marketing technology company. From 2005 to 2011, Doug served as President of Products and Technology as well as a number of other executive roles and as a member of the extended Executive Board at SAP A.G. Among other accomplishments, during his tenure at SAP, he and his team developed and launched the GRC set of solutions for SAP, growing from zero to over $800m in license sales over a five year period. From 2001 to 2004, he served as Group Vice President and General Manager of the $1b+ in revenue Human Capital Management Product Division at PeopleSoft Inc. (acquired by Oracle Corporation) where he led the functional teams focused on engineering, product management and marketing, support and GTM overlay. He also co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Icarian, Inc. (since acquired by Workstream Corp.), a cloud-based company, from 1996 to 2001.

Doug holds a B.S. from The University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.

John Jendricks serves as the Chief Operating Officer for Aviatrix. Formerly Chief of staff for VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger, Jendricks initially joined VMware six years ago as vice president, business development and operations, alongside the Nicira acquisition. He has over 35 years of technology experience in driving innovative technologies to become industry-leading products.

Prior to joining VMware, Jendricks was responsible for business & commercial operations as Vice President, business development and operations at Nicira, Inc. Jendricks also spent many years as CIO in the industry, leading technology implementation at Adobe, Wellfleet (acquired by Synoptics), Juniper Networks and StrataCom (acquired by Cisco).

Cyrous Jamé is the Chief Financial Officer of Aviatrix, bringing 15 years of Finance leadership experience with a deep understanding of technology. Prior to Aviatrix, Cyrous spent 10 years at Google, most recently, leading the Strategic Finance team of Google Play. Also at Google he has held finance leadership positions across Ads, Media, and Consumer Hardware divisions. Prior to Google, he spent several years working on Wall Street as a Software and Internet technology analyst and investor. He started his career as a software engineer developing complex enterprise software applications.

Cyrous holds Bachelor’s degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from University California Berkeley, and a Masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Joshua Blatt brings more than 20 years of programming and management experience in networking and software engineering. Before joining Aviatrix, Josh was at Google where he managed Istio’s core team, and also led multiple community working groups and participated as a voting member in Istio’s TOC. In this role, he launched GCP’s managed Istio offering – Anthos Service Mesh. Prior to Istio, Josh managed Google’s Linux Kernel Networking team where he was responsible for optimizing and hardening both established and emerging Internet protocols, as well as the end host components of Google’s internal traffic shaping infrastructure.

Prior to Google, Josh managed Yahoo’s CDN organization where he evolved its CDN into a multi-region cache hierarchy capable of serving many terabits per second. He led multiple infrastructure teams to replace Yahoo’s original LAMP stack with NodeJS and Java, and helped build out the company’s CI/CD infrastructure.

As a programmer, Josh specialized in C/C++ UNIX-based L3-L7 networking and security intermediaries and components, with a variety of positions ranging across early stage startups and larger companies. Josh was originally self-taught, entering the industry with a BA in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania. He subsequently earned a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign while employed as a full-time programmer.

Lillian Leaños, SPHR serves as the Chief People Officer for Aviatrix. Lillian brings 20+ years of Human Resources and People Operations experience. For the past 7 years she has served as a CPO Consultant for Countsy providing venture-backed technology start-ups with HR outsourcing solutions. Prior to her role at Countsy she was the Vice President, Operations, People & Culture for Accretive Solutions, where she led the development of consistent and supportive employee and organizational initiatives.

Lillian is passionate about building a high-performance culture and teams that align with the goals of the organization. Lillian also enjoys spending her free time with regular exercise, family, engaging in sports, music and a good book.