The Cloud ROI Company™

CloudBolt’s mission is simple: Help customers maximize cloud value.
ABOUT

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.

CORE VALUES

FASTER is in our DNA

Some people call it culture. At CloudBolt, we call it our DNA – Daily Normal Activities. Our people strive to exemplify these every day. And we hire with these characteristics in mind. Each day, we’re obsessed with being one-day better, one-day FASTER.
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Focused

Relentlessly orientate to the success of our customers and partners. Determine priorities for maximum advantage.

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Accountability

Do what we say. Take actions and own the outcomes, both good and bad, then learn from the outcomes.

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Strategic

Think through every decision with the end in mind – especially the ones that advance our vision and mission.

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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.

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Repeatability

Orientate our operations to continuously scale by learning, growing and evolving our business practices.

LEADERSHIP

Meet the Leadership Team

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    Craig Hinkley

    Chief Executive Officer

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    Brendan Dolan

    Chief Financial Officer

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    Kyle Campos

    Chief Technology Officer

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    Pritesh Upadhyay

    Chief Revenue Officer

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    Shawn Petty

    Chief Customer Officer

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    Mark Zembal

    Chief Marketing Officer

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    Craig Hinkley

    Chief Executive Officer

    Role:
    Chief Executive Officer

    Education:
    Bachelor of Information Technology, Swinburne University of Technology

    Experience:
    – 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 Division

    Greatest 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”.

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    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

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    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.

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    Pritesh Upadhyay

    Chief Revenue Officer

    Role:
    Chief Revenue Officer

    Education:
    MIS, Minnesota State University 

    Experience:

    • 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.

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    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

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    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.

CAREERS

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

Some of the largest enterprises in the world trust CloudBolt to help them maximize the value they are able to realize from their cloud strategies. Every innovation and breakthrough helps get us one step closer to our goal of helping every customer achieve maximum Cloud ROI, but our work is never-ending. It takes a team of the right people with complementary skillsets to help uncover the next ROI-enhancing opportunity and make it real. If you have a customer-first mindset, are excellent at what you do, and are driven to make what’s next become what’s now, we should talk.

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