The Cloud ROI Company™
About CloudBolt
For more than a decade, CloudBolt has been passionately focused on helping companies extract ever-increasing value from the cloud. And unlike many newcomers, CloudBolt understands the need to be proficient not only in public clouds but private ones as well (data center, sovereign, etc.) so that companies can treat their cloud as a unified fabric to optimize costs without slowing down innovation. Leveraging advanced automation and orchestration and utilizing AL/ML, our Augmented FinOps solution is further accelerating how customers evolve from Cloud First to Cloud Right.
Your cloud has an ROI problem. We exist to help you solve it.
FASTER is in our DNA
Focused
Relentlessly orientate to the success of our customers and partners. Determine priorities for maximum advantage.
Accountability
Do what we say. Take actions and own the outcomes, both good and bad, then learn from the outcomes.
Strategic
Think through every decision with the end in mind – especially the ones that advance our vision and mission.
Trust
Strive to be trusted resources and advisors to our customers and partners, ensuring we are dependable resources to each other.
Execution
Clarify the activities that we need to accomplish and say “no” to things that are not aligned with our priorities.
Repeatability
Orientate our operations to continuously scale by learning, growing and evolving our business practices.
Meet the Leadership Team
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Craig Hinkley
Chief Executive Officer
Role:
Chief Executive OfficerEducation:
Bachelor of Information Technology, Swinburne University of TechnologyExperience:
– CEO, WhiteHat Security, 2015-2022
– VP & General Manager, LogLogic a division of Tibco Software (acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2015), 2013-2015
– VP & General Manager, HP Enterprise – Networking DivisionGreatest professional accomplishment:
Turn around and transformation of WhiteHat Security which led to a growing and profitable business that was acquired by NTT, Security Division at an above-market multiple.Favorite motto:
Life is about progress, not perfection – I am a work in progress.Superpower:
Seeing things for what they are and being able to rapidly “connect the dots”. -
Brendan Dolan
Chief Financial Officer
Role:
Chief Financial OfficerEducation:
BBA IONA University; MBA Columbia UniversityExperience:
- 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 OfficerEducation: 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. -
Pritesh Upadhyay
Chief Revenue Officer
Role:
Chief Revenue OfficerEducation:
MIS, Minnesota State UniversityExperience:
- CRO, Zenoss
- CRO, Optanix
- Director of Sales and General Manager, Sirius Computer Solutions
- VP Sales, CA Technologies
Greatest professional accomplishment:
Converted Optanix from a direct sales model to channel-focused, creating a high-producing network of over 50 channel partners, which ultimately resulted in a successful exit for the company.Favorite motto:
“One team. One Dream.”Superpower:
Ability to adapt and thrive in any situation. -
Shawn Petty
Chief Customer Officer
Role:
Chief customer officerEducation:
Colorado State UniversityExperience:
- 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. EisenhowerSuperpower:
Gift of gab -
Mark Zembal
Chief Marketing Officer
Role:
Chief Marketing OfficerEducation:
BA Marketing – University of St. ThomasExperience:
- 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.
CloudBolt: Where “what’s next” becomes “what’s now”
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