Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box, which he originally created as a college business project with the goal of helping people easily access their information from any location. Box was launched from Aaron's dorm room in 2005 with the help of CFO Dylan Smith. He is the visionary behind Box's product and platform strategy, which is focused on incorporating the best of traditional content management with the most effective elements of social business software. He has spoken about content and collaboration tools at events such as Fortune Brainstorm Tech, Web 2.0, Dreamforce, Accenture Global Summit, South by Southwest, and Svase.
Aaron studied business at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California before taking a leave of absence.
Co-founder & Chief Financial Officer
Dylan Smith is Chief Financial Officer and co-founder of Box, where he leads finance, investor relations and other miscellaneous operations. He has been instrumental in Box's growth and development since starting the company with co-founder Aaron Levie while in college. He has been named one of BusinessWeek's top 5 Entrepreneurs under 25, and was also a finalist for Silicon Valley's CFO of the Year. Prior to Box, Dylan spent his time earning Box's seed funding through various entrepreneurial endeavors.
Dylan received a bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University.
Chief Operating Officer
Prior to his engagement with Box, Dan served as interim CEO of Picateers. Before that, he spent 6+ years at Intuit in a variety of roles including Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Small Business Group, Vice President and General Manager of the Quicken Health Group, and Vice President of Product Management.
Previously, Dan spent thirteen years in venture-backed startups, including senior executive roles at ReplayTV which was acquired by Sonic Blue (SVP and CTO), GuestConnect which was acquired by 4th Network (founder and CEO) and Books That Work which was acquired by Sierra On-Line (co-founder and President).
Enterprise General Manager
Whitney Tidmarsh Bouck is the General Manager of Box Enterprise, driving the growth strategy for Box in the enterprise market across sales, marketing, product, and services. Prior to joining Box, Whitney spent 15 years with Documentum and then EMC (via acquisition) and held a variety of positions, including Worldwide Vice President of Product Marketing, General Manager of two of the organization's most important product lines, and most recently as Chief Marketing Officer of the Information Intelligence Group at EMC. Previously, Whitney had a variety of technology and leadership roles at Sybase and Oracle.
Vice President of Marketing
Jen Grant is the Vice President of Marketing at Box, where she is responsible for leading brand strategy, sales marketing, public and analyst relations, and product marketing.
Prior to Box, Jen spent four years at Google where she was head of marketing for the Apps team responsible for marketing Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Blogger, Reader, Picasa, Orkut, and OpenSocial. In 2007, she received a Google Founders Award – the most prestigious award offered at Google. Prior to Google, Jen was a Product Manager at Stata Labs, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2004, Director of Marketing at Thin Multimedia and a co-founder at DealMaven, which was acquired by FactSet.
Jen received her MBA from Wharton and earned her bachelor's degree from Princeton.
Vice President of Technology
Sam Ghods is the Vice President of Technology at Box, where he manages the design and architecture of Box's application and technology stack. Prior to joining Box, Sam was a developer at essembly.com, which is now part of Project Agape. Before essembly.com, Sam was the lead developer at zexsports.com, where he was responsible for development, server management, and architecture.
Sam attended the University of Southern California, where he studied computer engineering and computer science for two years before joining Box in 2006.
Vice President of Inside Sales
Lesley Young is Vice President of Inside Sales at Box. Prior to joining Box, Lesley held the position of VP Sales at Huddle. Before that, Lesley was VP Corporate Sales at MySQL, acquired by Sun in 2008 which was then acquired by Oracle in 2009. Lesley was a member of both the Oracle and Sun acquisition teams.
Previously, Lesley spent ten years in venture-back startups pre- and post-IPO, where she held the position of VP WW Corporate Sales and Operations and Remedy Corporation where she held Strategic Account and Field sales positions.
Vice President of Sales
Jim Herbold is the VP of Sales at Box, responsible for driving all revenue growth and scaling global sales operations. Jim was hired in 2007 to transition the company from a consumer focus to one squarely aimed at knowledge workers and IT administrators. Prior to Box, Jim was the VP of Sales and Enterprise GM of EmailLabs, a cloud/SaaS provider of email marketing automation solutions. Jim was also involved in running AboveNet's Asia Pacific sales and data center operations and has also lived in Singapore, working for the National Computer Board investing in local technology startups.
Jim graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in geography and anthropology.
Vice President of Engineering
Arnold Goldberg is the Vice President of Engineering at Box, where he is responsible for the engineering and QA teams.
Prior to joining Box he was the VP of Platform Engineering at LinkedIn. Before LinkedIn, he spent 7 years at eBay initially focusing on site technology and architecture and eventually managing the Systems Development Team as Sr. Director-Engineering. His focus was on scaling people, processes and technologies to support eBay's hyper-growth.
Arnold received a BS in Computer Engineering at the University of Florida.
Vice President of Platform
Chris Yeh is Vice President of Platform at Box, where he is responsible for platform product strategy, partner ecosystem development and third-party innovation.
Chris joined Box from Yahoo!, where he was the product lead for Yahoo! Groups, Delicious and other community products. Chris was also formerly the head of the Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN), the company's third-party developer program. Prior to Yahoo!, Chris was VP of Marketing at Tacit Software, which was acquired by Oracle in 2008, VP of Product Management at Blue Martini Software, and a principal at strategy consulting firm Mercer Management Consulting. A long time ago, Chris was employee 9999 at Oracle.
Chris holds an MBA from Wharton and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
Vice President of Business Development
Karen Appleton is the Vice President of Business Development at Box, where she initiates, evaluates, and structures new business opportunities, including strategic alliances and partnerships.
Prior to Box, Karen was Vice President of Development and a member of the executive team at Prosper Marketplace and was responsible for a full range of growth activity. She also served as National Marketing Director for the corporate group at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, LLP. At Lexis-Nexis, she launched the firm's internet product, managed top-tier accounts, and ran business development for the state of Hawaii.
Karen earned a master's degree in organizational development from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree in international business from Towson University. She holds an advisory board seat with The Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives and serves on the Board of Directors for SV2.
Vice President of Customer Success
As Box's Vice President of Customer Success, Jon guides the client services, technical support and implementation teams. Box has a fast-growing customer community, and Jon works to ensure that all of Box's Enterprise and Business customers are phenomenally successful.
Jon brings more than 20 years of experience in technology-related services to Box, and has worked with some of the biggest names in the tech world, including Accenture, Informatica and most recently NetSuite, where he served as VP of Professional Services for North America and EMEA. Jon was a Steering Committee Member for a number of NetSuite's most important customer implementations, and was also a member of NetSuite's Operating Committee. Before NetSuite, Jon led the turnaround of Informatica's European consulting practice during a multi-year expatriate assignment, which eventually led to a 65% jump in revenue.
Jon received his BS in Computer Science from University of Maryland, College Park, where he graduated with honors.
Director of Support
Ron Gross is the Director of Support at Box, where he is responsible for driving Box's overall customer support strategy.
Prior to Box Ron spent six years at Excite where he was one of the first employees and founded the Customer Support and Engineering QA departments for the Excite portal and other offerings. After this Ron founded and developed the support departments for internet start-ups Friendster and later BitTorrent.
Ron received his bachelor's degree in Business/MIS from San Jose State University.
Vice President of Technical Operations
Jeff Queisser is the Vice President of Technical Operations at Box, where he is responsible for Box's core technology, architecture and infrastructure. Jeff became interested in computer programming at a young age, selling his first software at the age of ten, and later formed Q-Squared, a successful IT consulting company based in Seattle.
Jeff attended Western Washington University before leaving to join Box in 2006.
Director of Product Management
David Lee is the Director of Product Management at Box, where he is responsible for driving Box's product strategy.
Prior to Box, David spent three years at Yahoo's Display Advertising team. As Yahoo's lead product manager for video advertising, he launched new ad offerings that improved the performance of video ad campaigns on Yahoo by an average of 300% and implemented a partnership deal with Comcast. Before Yahoo, David worked at WebEx and was responsible for rolling out WebEx's MeetMeNow service, a solution targeted at the SMB segment. Early in his career, David worked as a systems engineer at Boeing's Commercial Aircraft division.
David earned his MBA from Haas School of Business at University of California, and received a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from University of Southern California.
Vice President of Business Operations
Greg Strickland is the Vice President of Business Operations at Box, where he is responsible for financial analysis, accounting, human resources, operations, strategic initiatives and assisting with fundraising.
Prior to Box, Greg spent several years helping build the first national wine bar chain as Interim-CFO and Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis. He was responsible for site selection analytics, corporate human resources, financing, liquor license procurement, accounting and strategic initiatives.
Greg received his bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
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