Turning Cloud Chaos Into Cloud Clarity

CloudBolt helps companies confidently build, manage, optimize their cloud environments.

CloudBolt badges for Leader and Fast Mover from GigaOm 2025 radar report

ABOUT

About CloudBolt

For more than a decade, CloudBolt has been dedicated to helping companies build, manage, and optimize cloud environments across public, private, hybrid, and sovereign infrastructures. Unlike newcomers focused on one cloud or one layer of the stack, we understand the full spectrum of enterprise cloud—from data centers to hyperscalers—so organizations can operate it all as a unified, consistent fabric.

By combining powerful automation, orchestration, and AI/ML-driven intelligence, CloudBolt empowers teams to deliver services faster, maintain strong governance, and continuously optimize cloud and Kubernetes environments as they scale. Our Augmented FinOps capabilities further accelerate how enterprises evolve from Cloud First to Cloud Right—where building efficiently, managing confidently, and optimizing continuously becomes the standard.

Your cloud is complex. We exist to help you build it, manage it, and optimize it—every step of the way.

List of accolades, awards and badges for CloudBolt

LEADERSHIP

Meet the Leadership Team

Rod Squires

Chief Executive Officer
Brendan Dolan

Chief Financial Officer
Kyle Campos

Chief Technology Officer
Shawn Petty

Chief Customer Officer
Mark Zembal

Chief Marketing Officer
Keno Helmi

Chief Revenue Officer
Yasmin Rajabi

Chief Operating Officer

Rod Squires

Chief Executive Officer

Role:
Chief Executive Officer

Education:
Wesleyan University

Experience:
25 year track record in transforming, strengthening, and growing companies from early stage to $100M+ annual revenue, resulting in four exits, a $550M outcome, and an $11B market cap.

Greatest professional accomplishment:
Helping Pentaho completely pivot from a highly commoditized reporting vendor to an emerging Big Data integration and analytics offering, from $6M to $140M ARR. From $17K average ACV to $160K ACV. From 70 customers to 1,500.

Favorite motto:
“Nothing worth achieving comes easy.”

Superpower:
Listening
Brendan Dolan

Chief Financial Officer
Role:
Chief Financial Officer

Education:
BBA IONA University; MBA Columbia University

Experience:
- Chief Financial Officer; CloudCheckr (acquired by NetApp)
- Chief Financial Officer; Viventium
- President, PerTrac Financial Solutions (acquired by eVestment/NASDAQ)
- Chief Financial Officer, CapitalIQ (acquired by Standard &Poor’s/McGraw Hill)
Greatest professional accomplishment:
I have led multiple technology companies through their growth stages to successful exits.

Favorite motto:
“Strive for greatness, lead with integrity.”

Superpower:
Operational optimization – Optimizing business operations to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
Kyle Campos

Chief Technology Officer
Role:
Chief Technology & Product Officer

Education: Nothing to brag about – High School graduate, started working at a startup right out of high school.

Experience:
- EVP of Technology, Smarsh
- Digital TechOps, CSAA
- Director of DevOps, BioIQ
- Director of Quality Operations, rSmart
Greatest professional accomplishment:
Added $2bil+ of enterprise market value through successful launch and scale of enterprise SaaS business line, moving product from newcomer to market leader in under 3 years.

Favorite motto:
Don’t let success go to your head or failure go to your heart.

Superpower:
Optimal dishwasher loading – no combination of dishes is above his ability to fit and ensure appropriate direct cleanability resulting in no dirty dish left behind.
Shawn Petty

Chief Customer Officer
Role:
Chief customer officer

Education:
Colorado State University

Experience:
- Offering Owner, IBM
- Senior SAN Architect (Disaster Recovery), Raytheon
- Senior Storage Engineer, Harris Corp
Greatest professional accomplishment:
US Navy Veteran (VFW – Desert Storm and Desert Shield)

Favorite motto:
“Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Superpower:
Gift of gab
Mark Zembal

Chief Marketing Officer
Role:
Chief Marketing Officer

Education:
BA Marketing – University of St. Thomas

Experience:
- CMO, SecureAuth
- Principal/Founder, Parasol Consulting
- VP, Global Marketing & Communications, Acxiom
- Co-founder, Mindspace Advertising
Greatest professional accomplishment:
Instrumental in the marketing and positioning of six companies that enjoyed successful exits (agency and/or client-side involvement)

Favorite motto:
“Argue for your limitations and they are yours.”

Superpower:
Building high-performing teams that punch well above their weight class.
Keno Helmi

Chief Revenue Officer
Role:

Chief Revenue Officer

Experience:
- HP Software – VP of Global Accounts,
- Duetto – Chief Revenue Officer
- Platform 9 – Chief Revenue Officer
- Espressive – Chief Revenue Officer
Greatest professional accomplishment:

Running a $750M P&L with 140 Sales Professionals serving HP’s 500 Largest Global Accounts.

Favorite motto:
- “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, either way you’re right.” – Henry Ford
- “The Sale begins at No.” – Keno Helmi
Superpower:

Helping individuals see that the only limitations they truly face are almost always self-imposed. Why? Because I truly believe the fight begins in the mind and not in the physical world.
Yasmin Rajabi

Chief Operating Officer

Role:

Chief Operating Officer

Education:

Babson College

Experience:

COO at StormForge, Sr. Director of Product at Puppet, Engineering Manager at Staples

Greatest professional accomplishment:

Navigated the company through financial instability, launching a new product, positioning the company for recovery and future growth.

Favorite motto:

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

Superpower:

Relentlessness

CAREERS

CloudBolt: Where “what’s next” becomes “what’s now”

Some of the world’s largest enterprises rely on CloudBolt to help them build, manage, and optimize modern cloud environments with confidence. Every advancement we make strengthens our mission to simplify the cloud journey—from faster provisioning, to smarter governance, to continuous optimization across hybrid, multi-cloud, and Kubernetes. But this work is never finished. Delivering what’s next requires a team of people who bring diverse skills, deep curiosity, and a commitment to solving real customer challenges. If you’re driven to help organizations build better, manage smarter, and optimize continuously, we’d love to talk.

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