Steve Mullaney brings 30 years of marketing, product management, and engineering experience in network infrastructure and security to Aviatrix. Most recently, Steve was the CEO of Nicira Inc., a network virtualization and software-defined networking company, from 2009 until it was acquired in 2012 by VMware for $1.26 billion. Nicira invented the concept of offering software-based services running on top of networking hardware. Mullaney became the senior vice president and general manager of VMware’s Networking and Security business unit following Nicira’s acquisition.

Prior to Nicira, he served as vice president, marketing, and interim CEO for Palo Alto Networks. During his tenure, Mullaney oversaw the company’s invention of the next-generation firewall market category, which helped cement Palo Alto Networks’ reputation as a thought leader and cybersecurity innovator.

Steve also held executive positions at Blue Coat, Force10, Cisco, Growth Networks, ShoreTel, Bay Networks and SynOptics, and began his career as a design engineer at GTE Government Systems. Steve holds a BSEE from the University of Rhode Island.

Sherry Wei was inspired to start Aviatrix in 2013 after a long career at Cisco. The idea behind the technology was to extend the enterprise datacenter to AWS without touching the underlying network infrastructure. Aviatrix was able to acquire a couple of enterprise customers using its hybrid cloud solution before receiving funding.

Sherry worked at Cisco for 13 years. She led and developed multiple Cisco first generation products, among them the first Intel-based Cisco Integrated System Router (ISR) and the first Cisco T1/E1 Voice and WAN Interface Module.Sherry joined Cisco as part of the acquisition of Ardent Communications where she was the first employee and wrote a significant amount of code. Prior to Ardent, Sherry was an early employee at Centillion Networks that was acquired by Bay Networks (Nortel). Sherry holds a Ph.D from Purdue University in EECS.

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 deep understand of technology. Prior to Aviatrix, Cyrous spent 10 years at Google. Most recently, leading the Strategic Finance team of Google Play, and also 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 degrees in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from University California Berkeley and Masters in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

Frank Cabri is Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Aviatrix, bringing over 25 years of experience in data security and cloud infrastructure to the role.  Prior to Aviatrix, Frank served as Vice President of Marketing at Imperva (NYSE: IMPV) as part of the Cloud Security business unit following Imperva’s acquisition of Skyfence. Before Imperva, he was part of the executive management team at Centrify as VP Worldwide Marketing, where he led the planning and execution of the company’s brand, demand generation, product marketing and go-to-market strategies for identity management across data center, cloud and mobile. Centrify was later acquired by Thoma Bravo in 2017.

Cabri has also held senior marketing and product management roles at Blue Coat (acquired by Symantec) and MCI (now Verizon) Communications.

Karl brings more than 20 years of industry experience in building and leading sales teams and businesses. A proven sales leader, he has driven the business of Infoblox, Palo Alto Networks and most recently Rubrik, enabling these companies to transform from startups to publicly listed companies. Before joining Aviatrix, he served as head of EMEA sales for Rubrik and Karl also started the EMEA business for Elasitica which was later acquired by Symantec. Karl has been instrumental in creating go-to-market strategies for early stage companies. As the Vice President, EMEA of Palo Alto Networks, he built a team of more than 200 members and a business of over $200M in annual bookings within five years. Karl also served as the Vice President, EMEA at Infoblox where he grew the business from inception to over $40M run rate in annual bookings in four years.

Romain is a proven engineering leader, with over 20 years of distributed systems, network virtualization and large-scale software infrastructure development experience. Prior to Aviatrix, Romain was the Uber Tech Lead for Service Mesh Security at Google. Prior to Google, Romain held Software Architect roles at Isovalent and Oracle and lead NSX network virtualization engineering teams at VMware and Nicira. Romain began his career as a research engineer for France Telecom, he spent 4 years in Japan at the Tokyo Institute of Technology and Orange Labs, then later as a software engineer for Google’s YouTube Infrastructure team.

Romain holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from Institut national polytechnique de Grenoble, a Masters of Research, Computer Science from Université Grenoble Alpes and a Masters in Computer Science from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble.

Nauman Mustafa is an experienced, “Technology Change Agent” who is passionate about adoption and expansion of cutting edge and disruptive technologies into modern businesses. With deep roots in Networking and Security, Nauman brings over 19 years of industry experience across Cisco, Nicira/VMware and Alcatel. He is well known to build top talent Solutions Architecture teams and mastermind execution of key initiatives that challenges the status quo and brings a fresh mindset. With strong focus on Human empowerment, Nauman has led several strategic initiatives around customer product expansion, modernization of solution architectures, partner mentoring, field enablement and new idea incubation.

Prior to joining Aviatrix, Nauman was a Director & Global Technology Adoption leader at VMware. In this role, he was instrumental in driving their Networking, Security and Cloud Native Portfolio from ground up to multi-billion dollar ‘likeable’ products. Before VMware, Nauman held several management and technical leadership roles at Cisco with focus on success of various voice/video, data center and cloud solutions.

Nauman holds a M.S Degree in EECS from SIUE as well as industry certifications CCIE, VCDX-NV and most recently ACE in Multi-Cloud domain.

Deepesh is an experienced leader with over 20 years of experience in service provider and enterprise networking with extensive experience in the areas of Cloud Services, datacenter networking and operations and mobile networking. Deepesh has built out several customer facing teams focused on network design and architecture, day 2 operations, support and DevOps within high growth startup environments.

Prior to Aviatrix, Deepesh served as the Director of Customer engineering at Uhana (acquired by VMware in 2019) where he managed an SRE team to design and deploy Uhana’s next generation wireless networks platform, harnessing the power of SDN, machine learning and predictive analytics to manage and optimize mobile networks for large Service Providers in the US, Europe and ANZ regions. Before Uhana, Deepesh was part of the Solutions Architect team at Nicira Inc. until its acquisition by VMware in 2012 and continued to lead a team of Solutions Architects in VMware’s Networking and Security Business Unit before joining Uhana. Prior to Nicira, Deepesh served as a technical lead in customer focused teams at Juniper and Tellabs.

Don Leone is Vice President of Business Development at Aviatrix, bringing over 30 years of proven sales and sales leadership experience to the role. Prior to this role, Don led the planning and execution of Aviatrix’s international sales strategy, establishing a customer base in all global markets. Prior to Aviatrix, Don was a sales leader at HP Enterprise Services (now DXC) leading Fortune 500 enterprises on their digital transformation and cloud migration strategy. He also has over 20 years of experience at Siemens with roles that included Director of Global Accounts and Director of Cloud Computing, helping the company transition from legacy voice technologies to Voice-over-IP.

Don has also held executive sales roles at startups United Messaging and Hosting.com. He holds a Social Sciences degree with an emphasis in International Business from UC Berkeley.

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.