VMTurbo Management Team

N. Louis Shipley

President and CEO

Lou Shipley 1000x1500Prior to joining VMTurbo, Lou was General Manager of Citrix Xen Products Group. Previously, he was President and CEO of Reflectent Software, an end user application performance monitoring company acquired by Citrix in 2006.  Lou was General Manager of the Citrix Management Systems group, then took on the role as General Manager of Citrix XenServer when Citrix acquired XenSource in 2007.  He joined Reflectent after working as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Highland Capital Partners.

Prior to Highland, Lou served as Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for WebLine Communications, a customer contact center software company acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999 for $325 million. Previously to WebLine, Lou served as Vice President of Americas and Pacific operations at Avid Technology. He joined Avid as a startup and oversaw growth to over $450 million in revenue. Lou also founded and served as President of Avid Japan, KK.  Lou is a graduate of Trinity College and Harvard Business School, and is a Guest Lecturer at MIT Sloan School. He serves as a Trustee at Westminster School in Simsbury, CT and is on the Board of Directors at Xtranormal.com.
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Shmuel Kliger

Founder 

Shmuel Kliger, VMTurbo CTO and FounderShmuel is currently focused on product and technology strategy, as well as strategic partnerships.  Previously, he founded and served as President and CEO of VMTurbo.  Prior to founding VMTurbo, Shmuel served as Vice President of Architecture and Applied Research in the EMC CTO Office. Prior to joining the CTO Office, Shmuel was the Chief Technology Officer of EMC’s Resource Management Software Group. Shmuel Kliger joined EMC with the acquisition of SMARTS. Shmuel Kliger was a Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of SMARTS.

As CTO of SMARTS Shmuel Kliger was responsible for setting SMARTS vision and strategy, managing SMARTS R&D organization, as well as Professional Services, Technical Support and Technology Partner Development. Prior to joining SMARTS, Shmuel was a member of the Distributed Systems Software Technology department at IBM Research developing middleware technologies. Shmuel also served as a senior researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, and Manager of Technical Support Services for International Business Software in Israel. Shmuel holds a B.S. in mathematics from Bar Ilan University, an M.Sc.and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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Mo Garad

CFO

Mo Garad, VMTurbo CFOMo brings over 15 years of financial management and business strategy experience to VMTurbo where as CFO he is responsible for finance and operations. Previously, Mo was CFO of dynaTrace, an application performance management software company acquired by Compuware for $265 million in July 2011, where he was the first U.S. employee and helped grow the business from less than a million dollars in revenue to a run rate of $32 million in four years. Mo also held executive roles at Bain Capital Ventures and VERITAS Software, which he joined after the acquisition of Precise Software.

At Precise, Mo served as VP of strategic planning/M&A and VP of finance. He was part of the management team involved in the IPO of the company in June 2000 and its acquisition by VERITAS for over $650 million in June 2003.
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Andrew Mallaband

Vice President of Global Service Providers and Managing Director of Northern Europe

Andrew leads the company’s global focus on the Service Provider market, as well as heading up the sales and operations for Northern Europe. Andrew has spent the last 15 years working to improve the productivity of IT operations. This included leadership roles at Logical Networks (acquired by Datatec), where he ran the Network and Systems Management group; SMARTS (acquired by EMC), who pioneered automated root cause analysis; and Opalis (acquired by Microsoft), the market leader in IT process automation. Andrew is employee number seven at VMTurbo and has worked closely with the engineering team and pilot customers to get the product to market and on early customer acquisitions in the US, Europe & Asia.

Jim McInerny

Vice President of Sales

Jim McInerny, VMTurbo VP of SalesPrior to joining VMTurbo, Jim served as the Director of Sales for EMC Corporation’s SMB Division (North America).  During his 10 years at EMC, Jim held multiple sales leadership positions, spending the last seven years building out the North American Inside Sales Division.  His duties included: recruiting and training hundreds of ISRs and managers; developing sales process and strategy across the division; and leading a 140 person sales organization which drove significant net new market-share for the company.

Prior to EMC, Jim spent seven years in sales and sales management for UUNET, where he helped build out the Southeast and New England sales and support teams.  Jim holds a B.A. degree from the University of New Hampshire and received his MBA from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.
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Yuri Rabover

Vice President of Product Strategy, Co-Founder

Yuri Rabover, VMTurbo VP of Product StrategyPrior to joining VMTurbo, Yuri managed the Advanced Solution group in the EMC CTO Office and worked very closely with EMC’s Architecture and Applied Research teams in prototyping and innovating across a broad range of technology stacks and solutions. He joined EMC with the acquisition of SMARTS. Yuri had a long and diverse career with SMARTS: he was a member of the founding team, managed engineering and product development, and was responsible for technology partnership development, managing relationships with strategic accounts.

Yuri worked in several other high-tech startups managing engineering and products in storage and system management, IP telephony and collaboration. Earlier in his career, Yuri managed a research lab at the Russian Academy of Sciences Informatics Institute, carrying out applied research in operating systems, resource management, and user interfaces.  Yuri holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and M.S. in computer science from Moscow Technical University of Electronic Engineering and a Ph.D. in computer science from Russian Academy of Sciences Informatics Institute.
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Chris Reisig

Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Chris brings his extensive experience developing and motivating high-performing sales teams at rapidly growing software companies to his role leading VMTurbo’s global sales efforts.  An accomplished sales leader with twenty years of technology industry experience both domestically and internationally, Chris joins with a proven track record of taking companies from $10 million to $100 million-plus in revenue. Before VMTurbo, Chris served as SVP of Sales and Business Development at Veracode, where he drove bookings growth by more than 500 percent. Prior, at Endeca (acquired by Oracle), he helped guide the company from its first customer to over $100 million in annual revenue. Earlier in his career, he served as a divisional vice president at PTC, opening and operating businesses across North America, Europe, APAC and Japan. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Saint Bonaventure University.

Derek Slayton

Vice President of Marketing

Derek Slayton, VMTurbo VP of MarketingDerek leads corporate, product and channel marketing at VMTurbo. Prior to joining the company, Derek was the senior director of product marketing and management at Citrix Systems where he drove the product direction, positioning and go-to-market strategies for the XenServer virtualization platform and cloud management solutions. Before joining Citrix, Derek ran marketing for Reflectent Software, an application performance management solution acquired by Citrix in May, 2006.

Derek joined Reflectent in 2004 from Enterasys Networks where he managed the company’s worldwide channel marketing efforts as director of global channel and field marketing. While at Enterasys he also oversaw the North American field operations and marketing organization helping the company to shift from a direct sales organization to a channel model and grow revenues to $600M. Prior to his tenure at Enterasys, Derek was responsible for the ProductSource offering at OrderTrust where he had P&L and product management responsibilities in bringing to market the company’s software-as-a-service offering for e-commerce retailers. Derek holds a bachelor’s degree in history and economics from Davidson College and an MBA from the F.W. Olin School of Business at Babson College.
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