Board of Directors

 
Brad Peters
CEO and Co-Founder, Birst

Brad Peters is the CEO and co-founder of Birst. Brad has spent the last 10 years building analytics products and solutions. Prior to working at Birst, he helped found and later led the Analytics product line at Siebel Systems which forms the basis of Oracle’s current OBIEE product family. Recognizing the limitations of enterprise analytics offerings and the revolutionary power of Cloud technologies, Brad founded Birst in 2005. Brad started his career as an investment banker for Morgan Stanley in the New York M&A practice. Brad regularly blogs for Forbes.com where he writes about Cloud and business software related issues.

Brad received a BS and MS in electrical engineering and computer science from UC Berkeley, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

 
 
Douglas Leone
Managing Director, Sequoia Capital

Doug is Managing Director of Sequoia Capital. He works with mobile, internet, software and communication companies. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1988, Doug held sales and sales management positions at Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Prime Computer. Doug has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, an MS in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University, and an MS in Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

 
 
John Hummer
Managing Director, Hummer Winblad

John, Managing Director, has been in the venture business since 1982. John graduated from Princeton in 1970 with an AB in English and ten years later, received his MBA from Stanford Business School in 1980. During the interim, John was a professional athlete, having been drafted in the first round of the National Basketball Association’s annual college draft in 1970, played six years and retired in 1976 from the Seattle SuperSonics.

 
 
Young J. Chung
Managing Director, DAG Ventures

Before joining DAG in 1999, Young worked at Goldman Sachs in the Investment Banking Division, focusing on financial analysis of mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, public and private financings, and other corporate transactions. While at DAG, he supported investments made in DAG I and II and led due diligence efforts in the early stages of DAG’s venture investment strategy implementation. In 2004, Young joined Entrisphere, a DAG portfolio company, where he focused on strategic initiatives to improve gross margins and reported to the CEO. He returned to DAG in 2005. Young has a BA from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

 
 
Doug Merritt
Senior Vice President, Cisco Systems

Doug is Senior Vice President at Cisco and is responsible for the go-to-market strategies for the company’s entire product and solutions portfolio. Prior to Cisco, Doug was CEO of Baynote. He joined the personalization startup from SAP where he was EVP Global On Demand Applications as well as a corporate officer and member of the Executive Council for SAP AG. Prior to SAP, Doug was at PeopleSoft, where he led the company’s $1 billion Human Capital Management division as Group Vice President/General Manager. Previously, he was founder, president, and CEO of Icarian, Inc (acquired by Workstream). Merritt also served in various leadership positions for Patrol Software (acquired by BMC Software), Powersoft (acquired by Sybase), Oracle Corporation, and Accenture/Andersen Consulting. Doug holds a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of the Pacific in California.