At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CFO’ operating in the Cloud Infrastructure space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Zane Rowe
Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of VMware
Mr. Rowe has served as a member of our board of directors since September 2016. Mr. Rowe has served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of VMware since March 2016. Before joining VMware, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of DellEMC from October 2014 through February 2016. Prior to joining DellEMC, Mr. Rowe was Vice President of North American Sales of Apple Inc. from May 2012 to May 2014. He was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United Continental Holdings, Inc., an airline holdings company, from October 2010 until April 2012 and was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Continental Airlines from August 2008 to September 2010. Mr. Rowe currently serves on the board of directors of Sabre Corporation.
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About VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Robert Sison
Chief Financial Officer of BigPanda
Robert Sison is the CFO at BigPanda.
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About BigPanda: BigPanda offers a platform that helps IT Ops, NOC, and DevOps teams detect, investigate, and resolve IT incidents faster and more easily.
Mark Khavkin
Chief Financial Officer of Pantheon
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About Pantheon: Pantheon is the WebOps platform where marketers, designers, and developers drive results with WordPress and Drupal websites.
Hunter J. Louis
Chief Financial Officer of Passport
Hunter Louis is Chief Financial Officer at Netuitive, Inc., responsible for all finance, legal, and administrative functions of the company. Prior to joining Netuitive, Hunter served as Vice President of Finance and Principal Accounting Officer for OTG Software, Inc. in Rockville, Maryland, a publicly held software company acquired by Legato Systems, Inc. Hunter began his finance career as an auditor for Deloitte & Touche in Washington, D.C. Since leaving public accounting Hunter has built financial organizations and held financial leadership positions at several Washington, D.C.-area companies, including Robbins-Gioia, Inc., Columbia Capital Corp., and SpaceWorks, Inc. Hunter has devoted his 20-year career to helping small companies build strong financial infrastructures and providing the financial guidance necessary for emerging companies to manage rapid growth. Developing business strategies, raising capital, negotiating contracts, managing expenses, and safeguarding corporate assets through the establishment of strong financial systems and controls are critical skills that Louis has applied in small and emerging businesses. Louis holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Tech.
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About Deloitte, Netuitive, OTG Software, Passport: Passport specializes in enterprise business applications and payments for parking and transportation.
Jorda Cire
CFO of AllCloud
Jody Cire serves as the Chief Financial Officer at AllCloud.
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About AllCloud: AllCloud is a cloud solutions provider specializing in cloud stack, infrastructure, platform, and Software-as-a-Service.
Jorda Cire
CFO of AllCloud
Jody Cire serves as the Chief Financial Officer at AllCloud.
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About AllCloud: AllCloud is a cloud solutions provider specializing in cloud stack, infrastructure, platform, and Software-as-a-Service.
Eric Yeaman
CFO of Silver Peak
Eric Yeaman has served as Chief Financial Officer since joining Silver Peak in 2005. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Turnstone Systems. Eric has held various senior financial positions at Atheros Communications, Atmosphere Networks (acquired by Ditech Communications), Whitetree Networks (acquired by Ascend Communications), and KPMG. Mr. Yeaman became a CPA in 1995.
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About Silver Peak: Silver Peak is the Global Leader in Broadband and Hybrid WAN Solutions.
Nancy Hamilton
Chief Financial Officer/Board Member of Ubiterra
Ms. Hamilton joined Ubiterra as CFO in May, 2012. She has over 25 years of finance and accounting experience and serves as the Company’s CFO. She has held executive financial positions for numerous software companies in the Denver-Boulder area. Most recently she was CFO for Local Matters, Inc., a multinational, Denver-based software company for the Yellow Pages industry.
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About Ubiterra: Ubiterra develops cloud-based technologies to manage data needs of the oil and gas industry.
Scott Parrish
Chief Financial Officer of 2nd Watch
Scott Parrish is CFO at 2nd Watch. Parrish served as the Chief Financial Officer at Azaleos Corporation. Scott Parrish joined Azaleos in January 2006 and is responsible for its General and Administrative operations, including Finance & Accounting, Human Resources, Legal and Facilities. Scott Parrish has over 12 years experience in providing financial, administrative, and operational leadership to technology businesses ranging from early-stage to established billion dollar corporations. Prior to joining Azaleos, Scott Parrish served as Finance Director at F5 Networks, where he led treasury, international accounting, SEC and SOX compliance functions, and due diligence and integration matters pertaining to its M&A activities. While at F5, Scott Parrish played a key role in supporting its growth from $5 million to $400 million in revenues including its IPO and Secondary public offerings. Scott Parrish began his career as a Consultant for Ernst & Young, LLP.
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About 2nd Watch: 2nd Watch is an AWS Premier Partner and a Microsoft Azure Gold Partner that provides consulting and managed cloud services to enterprises.
Laura Schulhof
CFO of Ambra Health
Laura drives the financial and accounting, legal and HR functions of Ambra Health with a strong background in strategic finance. Prior to joining Ambra in January 2017, Laura was Chief of Staff of the CEO at Endurance International, a publicly-traded SaaS hosting and IT services business for SMBs. While there, she worked closely with the functional leaders of each department and focused finance and operations for the company’s growth ventures. She also worked closely with the BD, Finance and Legal teams to complete the acquisition of Constant Contact in 2015. Prior to joining Endurance in 2015, Laura was an investment banker for Credit Suisse in the Technology group based in San Francisco. While there, Laura was a part of many IPOs, equity and debt financings (including of EIGI) and M&A transactions on both the buy and sell side. Laura is a graduate of Princeton University.
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About Ambra Health: Ambra Health is a medical data and image management SaaS provider company.
Edmundo Aja
Chief Financial Officer of Kipu Health
Edmundo Aja is the Chief Financial Officer at Kipu Systems.
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About Kipu Health: SaaS platform for behavioral health and addiction treatment centers providing EHR, patient engagement and RCM solutions.
Tom Snyder
Co-founder , COO & CFO of Xantrion
Tom manages Xantrion’s consulting team and finances. He has architected dozens of business computer networks. He developed our client focused Complete Care service, which provides unlimited support and a guarantee of satisfaction at a fixed monthly cost. He also pioneered internal policies such as open book financial reporting and profit sharing, which resulted in a high level of team member retention and satsifaction. Prior to founding Xantrion, Tom was Director of Consulting for an I.T. consulting firm. He also worked as a management consultant for McKinsey and CFO of CoForge. Prior to that, he was an operations manager for Chevron. Tom has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
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About Xantrion: Xantrion specializes in outsourced managed IT services and cybersecurity for mid-sized companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Travis Adlman
COO/CFO of NodeSource
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About NodeSource: Building products focused on Node.js security and performance for the Enterprise.
Ron Vincent
CFO of Crexendo
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About Crexendo: Crexendo provides a business optimization suite of cloud-based services including e-commerce, web marketing, and cloud communication.