Dremio Shortens the Distance to Data

Billy Bosworth has spent 30 years in the data industry in roles including engineer, CEO, and public company board member. He joined Dremio’s board of directors in June of 2019, then accepted the CEO role in February of 2020. He has helped Dremio scale rapidly, including ushering in $200 million in new capital bringing its total market valuation to $1 billion for the first time. Prior to Dremio, Billy served as CEO of Datastax for more than eight years growing the company from less than $1 million to more than $130 million in ARR. Prior to DataStax, he was the General Manager of Databases at Quest Software. In addition to leading Dremio, Billy currently serves on the board of the consumer credit reporting agency, TransUnion (NYSE: TRU). He previously served on the board of Tableau Software for several years through its acquisition by Salesforce in 2019.

Tomer Shiran served as the Dremio’s CEO for the first 4.5 years, overseeing the development of the company’s core technology and growing the team to 100 employees. Previously, he was the fourth employee and VP Product of MapR, a Big Data analytics pioneer. Tomer held numerous product management and engineering roles at IBM Research and Microsoft. He is the founder of two websites that have served millions of users and 100K+ paying customers. He holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Computer Science from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and is the author of numerous U.S. patents.

Lilie Lopez works closely with the CEO and executive team to advance the company’s top initiatives, and facilitate alignment with Dremio’s Board of Directors. Prior to joining Dremio, Lilie was Executive Administrative Manager at DataStax where she managed projects and activities for executive staff, the board, and committees. She also worked as a legal assistant with Sayar Fausto LLP and with local governments in Sunnyvale and Palo Alto. Lilie holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of California, Berkeley where she is an active member of the Cal Alumni Association.

With more than 20 years in leadership roles at enterprise technology companies, Colleen Blake brings a range of diverse experiences in HR, IT, Marketing and Services. In her first year at Dremio, Colleen helped grow the company’s headcount 150% and expand its team across 9 countries as CHRO. Before Dremio, She held senior leadership positions at GuideSpark, ServiceRocket, and Brocade Communications. Colleen is a recipient of the Silicon Valley Women of Influence Award and was recognized as one of the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 award for the D&I efforts she led while at Brocade. Colleen holds a B.Sc. in Marketing and Communications from Santa Clara University and hosts a weekly podcast on work+life integration.

Thirumalesh Reddy has extensive experience in executive engineering management roles, as well as building and leading global teams from a range of technology companies. Previously at Instart (acquired by Akamai), he served as SVP Engineering and cloud operations. Prior, Thirumalesh served as VP of Engineering at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and established a mature engineering organization geared for rapid product development and innovation with a focus on product quality and organizational development. Early in his career, Thirumalesh held several technology leadership roles at VMware. He is serving on multiple advisory boards and is the author of 23 U.S. patents.

Edward Sharp has been CFO of Dremio since 2020, where he previously served as an advisor. With three decades of tech industry experience, he brings a broad business and strategic mindset blended with a scaling and operational execution focus to Dremio. Prior, Edward was CFO at Avi Networks where he guided company growth from $1M to $25M in 3 years, culminating in an acquisition by VMware. He also held executive roles at PMC-Sierra (acquired by Microsemi), and NetApp (NTAP). He started his career at McKinsey & Co. Edward also serves on the board of Eideticomm, a computational storage early stage company.

Alan Gibson has broad experience scaling go-to-market teams in both North America and EMEA regions. He has more than 20 years of software experience holding leadership roles in Sales, Product Marketing, and Sales Engineering. Prior to joining Dremio, Alan spent 11 years with Alteryx, where he led the EMEA organization through multiple years of high growth. Prior, he built both enterprise and strategic sales teams across North America, and helped grow the organization from $15M to over $500M ARR, including an IPO in 2017.

Anita Pandey has more than 20 years of go-to-market experience across marketing and business development roles. She specializes in scaling emerging technologies to category leadership and cloud transitions at both public companies and start-ups through successful acquisitions and IPO. Previously, she managed her consulting practice and held executive advisory roles at Atlassian, NTT security, Sequoia backed unicorn, Forter and open-source AI leader, H20.ai. Prior, Anita was CMO of the Cisco Cloud Security Business Unit where she led global marketing, inside sales, and the GTM teams through double digit growth. She also held marketing & inside sales leadership roles at a variety of start-ups including cloud migration leader, Velostrata (acquired by Google), and Wi-Fi leader, Ruckus through to IPO. Anita also serves on the board of Fintech start-up, Ignify Technologies.