Suresh Vasudevan
CEO, Nimble Storage

Varun Mehta
Founder and VP of Engineering, Nimble Storage

Kirk Bowman
Kirk Bowman has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He most recently served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations at Dell EqualLogic, where he was responsible for company revenue generating functions. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Model N and was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence advising early stage companies at Foundation Capital. Kirk also served as the Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations of VMware. He served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide Field Operations of Inktomi Corporation, and held positions at eXcelon and Parametric Technology Corp. He is currently a director of private companies Coverity, PanoLogic, Zetta, and Librato. Kirk holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University.

Jim Goetz
Jim Goetz of Sequoia Capital works with cloud, mobile and enterprise companies. Jim currently serves on the board of Appirio, Barracuda, Clearwell, eMeter, Jive, MetaSwitch, Nimble, Palo Alto, Sencha and Widgetbox. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2004, Jim served as a General Partner at Accel Partners where he led the investments in Entrisphere (ERIC), Peribit (JNPR), RGB, and Rhapsody (BRCD) and was part of the team responsible for BroadJump (MOTV), Timetra (ALA) and Topspin (CSCO). Earlier, Jim was a Founder of VitalSigns (LU) where he went on to serve as VP/GM of the VitalSoft division of Lucent. Prior to VitalSigns, Jim was the Vice President of Network Management for Bay Networks. Jim has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Ping Li
Ping joined Accel Partners in 2004, and focuses on big data/storage, cloud computing, mobile, and gaming. Ping has over 15 years of experience as a technology investor and operating executive, helping build market-leading technology companies and product lines. He serves on the boards of Cloudera, Nimbula, and ScaleXtreme, among others. Prior to Accel, Ping worked at Juniper Networks as a senior product line manager for their flagship M-series router products. Ping was actively involved in Juniper’s multi-billion dollar acquisition of Netscreen Technologies. He also served as a strategy consultant for McKinsey & Company, advising technology clients in their growth strategies. Ping has an extensive international background as well, with experience at Singapore Telecom and Goldman Sachs Asia. Ping holds an A.B. from Harvard University with honors, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Accel Partners is a venture capital firm dedicated to helping outstanding entrepreneurs build world-class technology companies. In order to meet this challenge with a “prepared mind,” Accel focuses the investment of over $3 billion under management in just two areas: Communications and Software/Internet. Accel’s relationship with the entrepreneur is built on a shared commitment to excellence, a common culture that has led to an unusually high proportion of successful ventures. Accel Partners has backed over 200 companies and has a history of leading investments in category-defining technology companies such as Real Networks, Veritas, UUNet, Foundry Networks, AMCC, Agile Software, and Macromedia. Accel’s mission is to both identify and be the very best partner to the category-defining companies of tomorrow. To learn more visit www.accel.com.

Lightspeed Venture Partners combines extensive venture capital and operating experience to assist entrepreneurs in creating industry-leading technology companies. Lightspeed manages $1.3 billion of committed capital and focuses on early stage investments in the US, Asia and Israel. The firm’s partners have invested in more than 100 technology companies over the past two decades and have contributed to the success of market leaders including Blue Nile, Brocade, Ciena, Doubleclick, eHealth, Galileo Technology, Growth Networks, Informatica, Kiva Software, LightLogic, Maker Communications, Metasolv, Phone.com, Quantum Effect Devices, Riverbed, Sirocco, Transmeta, Virsa and Waveset. For more information, please visit our website at www.lightspeedvp.com.

Sequoia Capital provides venture capital funding to startups who want to turn business ideas into enduring companies. As the “Entrepreneurs Behind the Entrepreneurs”, Sequoia Capital’s Partners have worked with innovators such as Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Bob Swanson of Linear Technology, Sandy Lerner and Len Bozack of Cisco Systems, Dan Warmenhoven of NetApp, Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo!, Jen-Hsun Huang of NVIDIA, Michael Marks of Flextronics, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen of YouTube, Dominic Orr and Keerti Melkote of Aruba Wireless Networks, Jonathan Kaplan of Pure Digital, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, and Omar Hamoui of Admob. To learn more about Sequoia Capital, visit www.sequoiacap.com/us/technology.