Leadership Team

Aaron Levie

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.

Dylan Smith

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.

Dan Levin

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).

Whitney Tidmarsh Bouck

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.

Jen Grant

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.

Jim Herbold

Vice President of Sales

Jim Herbold serves as Box's VP of Sales and Enterprise General Manager, where he is responsible for managing the sales, product development, and marketing of the Business edition.

Jim has more than 15 years of experience in sales and operations. He joined Box from EmailLabs, acquired by Lyris, where as General Manager he was responsible for all facets of the business. Jim also held a variety of sales roles at EmailLabs, and in four years grew revenues by more than 700% while maintaining a profit margin in excess of 30% each year. Prior to EmailLabs, Jim held a variety of sales and operations roles at AboveNet Communications, National Computer Board (Singapore), Centennial Communications, and MCI Telecommunications.

Jim holds a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College.

Arnold Goldberg

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.

Karen Appleton

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.

Jon Herstein

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.

Ron Gross

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.

Jeff Queisser

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.

David Lee

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.

Greg Strickland

Vice President of Business Operations

Greg Strickland is the Director 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.

Sam Ghods

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.

Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Since its founding in 1985, DFJ has been proud to back more than 500 companies across many sectors including such industry changing successes such as Hotmail (acquired by MSFT), Baidu (BIDU), Skype (acquired by EBAY), Overture (acquired by YHOO), and Feedburner (acquired by GOOG).

U.S. Venture Partners

U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) has helped build great companies for nearly three decades. Since its inception in 1981, USVP has invested more than .4 billion in more than 420 companies. Throughout, USVP's partners have worked diligently and consistently with early-stage companies, many of which have become industry leaders.

Scale Venture Partners

Based in Foster City, California, the ScaleVP team is a long-standing partnership with a consistent, top quartile track record of returns for the past decade. ScaleVP's market-tested investment strategy, extensive operating networks and go-to-market expertise help identify and build successful portfolio companies in technology and healthcare markets. The ScaleVP team's collaborative and active approach provides entrepreneurs a competitive advantage for growth and category leadership. Representative portfolio companies include Alimera Sciences, ExactTarget, Frontbridge, IPC The Hospitalist Company, mBlox, Monolithic Power Systems, National Healing, NComputing, Omniture, Orexigen, ScanSafe, Everyday Health, and Zogenix.

Emergence

Emergence Capital Partners, based in San Mateo, Calif., is the leading venture capital firm focused on early and growth-stage Technology-Enabled Services companies. Its mission is to help build market leaders in partnership with great entrepreneurs. Emergence partners have funded and helped build more than 50 TES companies, more than any other early-stage venture firm. Emergence Capital has assets of over million under management. Prior investments include companies such as Salesforce.com (CRM), SuccessFactors (SFSF), HireRight (HIRE), Yammer, Veeva and InsideView.

Meritech

Meritech Capital Partners is a premier late-stage venture capital firm that invests in category defining private technology companies. With over .6 billion under management, Meritech seeks to lead investments in companies with proven and differentiated technology, strong market presence, accelerating revenue and seasoned management teams. As one of the most active late-stage investors, Meritech provides informed guidance on a number of issues that the most promising private companies face as they continue to rapidly scale. Representative portfolio companies include Facebook, Fortinet, Greenplum, Netezza, NetSuite, Riverbed, Salesforce.com, SpringSource and TeleAtlas, among others. Meritech is located in Palo Alto, CA.

Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz is a venture capital firm that invests in high technology companies and is based on a vision for a new, modern venture capital firm that supports entrepreneurs through angel investments to large scale funding. Its general partners are Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz and John O'Farrell, all widely recognized experts in the creation, scaling, and operation of high growth technology companies such as Netscape, Opsware, Silver Spring Networks, and Excite@Home. Andreessen Horowitz has more than 30 investments with companies like Facebook, Foursquare, Groupon, Kno, Rockmelt, Skype, Twitter, and Zynga. The firm was established in June 2009 and is located in Menlo Park, CA.

Aaron Levie

Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer

Dylan Smith

Co-founder & Chief Financial Officer

Dan Levin

Chief Operating Officer

Josh Stein

Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Josh Stein is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, where his current board responsibilities include Box, Eventful, IZEA, Polaris Wireless, SugarCRM, Taoit, ViVOTech, and Yardbarker. He is also actively involved with the firm's investments in Fonality, iList and Glam Media.

Prior to joining DFJ, Josh was a Vice President at Telephia, where he managed a group providing strategic analysis and information to the nation's largest wireless carrier. Previously, Josh was a co-founder, Director and the Chief Strategy Officer for ViaFone (NYSE:SY), a DFJ portfolio company and a leading provider of wireless enterprise applications. Josh has previously held positions in product management at Microsoft and NetObjects, and was a management consultant in the San Francisco office of The Boston Consulting Group.

Josh holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Center for Venture Education and the Kauffman Fellows Program, the leading educational fellowship in venture capital.

Mamoon Hamid

Principal, U.S. Venture Partners

Mamoon joined USVP in 2005 and is a Partner at the firm.

Mamoon has led or co-led USVP's investments in Act-On Software, Box, Castlight Health, Supplyframe and Yammer and represents USVP on those company's boards. He also works closely with Contour Energy. He has been an advisor at Yelp since its inception and previously worked closely with Optichron (acquired by Netlogic).

Prior to joining USVP Mamoon spent eight years various engineering and marketing roles at Xilinx. There he was responsible for defining and implementing sales and marketing strategies that grew the company's consumer electronics and automotive market segment revenues five-fold to in a span of three years. Previously, Mamoon also worked for Deutsche Bank.

Mamoon holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, an MS in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He is also a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program.

A native of Pakistan, Mamoon spent the pre-college part of his life in Frankfurt, Germany and is multi-lingual in German, Urdu and Hindi.

Rory O'Driscoll

Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners

Rory is a veteran venture capitalist who is focused on mobile, internet, and enterprise software and services. During his career, Rory has contributed to the evolution of software-as-service (SaaS) business models at companies such as Frontbridge, Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR) and Placeware. Currently, he also sits on the boards of Arena, ExactTarget, Hubspan, Innovion, Jaspersoft, Lumension Security, mBlox, Omniture, Picolight, ScanSafe and Vantage Media.

He was previously an investor in Altra, Connect, eGroups, Frontbridge, Good Technology, Net6, NetGenesis, OuterBay, Pavilion, Placeware, and Zone Labs. Prior to Scale Venture Partners, Rory worked in Corporate Development at Bank of America and was founder and CEO of Mercia Ltd., a UK-based manufacturing company.

Rory was born and raised in Ireland and holds a BSc from the London School of Economics.