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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Rod Squires
Chief Executive Officer
Role:
Chief Executive OfficerEducation:
Wesleyan UniversityEducation:
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 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. -
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. -
Steve Francis
Chief Revenue Officer
Role:
Chief Revenue OfficerExperience:
- Chief Commercial Officer at Focus Learning
- Global Sales VP, Instaclustr at NetApp
- CRO / EVP of GTM at Instaclustr
- Sr Director, NA Commercial Sales for Cloud & Networking BU at VMware
Greatest professional accomplishment:
Having a voluntary attrition rate on my teams of well below 5% annually.Favorite motto:
“Ideas are easy. Execution is everything.”Superpower:
Docking boats on cold windy nights. -
Yasmin Rajabi
Chief Strategy Officer
Role:
Chief Strategy 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
CloudBolt: Where “what’s next” becomes “what’s now”
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