KRISH RAMAKRISHNAN

Co-Founder and CEO

Krish brings more than 20 years of successful leadership and innovation to BlueJeans Network. Krish has been founder and CEO of several successful startup ventures, including Topspin, a datacenter virtualization player (acquired by Cisco in 2005) and Internet Junction (acquired by Cisco in 1995). Prior to BlueJeans, Krish was Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR) at Accel Partners, where he explored HD video technologies including the current idea behind BlueJeans and the GM for the Server Virtualization business unit at Cisco Systems, responsible for architecting Cisco's datacenter and desktop virtualization solutions.

Alagu Periyannan

Co-Founder and CTO

Alagu has over 20 years of research, product development, and strategy experience bringing innovative networking and video products to market. Prior to founding BlueJeans, he was Chief Technology Officer at Blue Coat Systems, leading its entry into the WAN optimization market. Prior to Blue Coat, Alagu worked at Entera, an Internet content delivery startup, where he built an R&D team to deliver streaming video caching products for the Content Delivery Network (CDN) market and he spent eight years at Apple in various R&D roles in networking and video over networks.

Robert Park

CFO

Robert Park brings more than 20 years of business and financial leadership experience. He joins Blue Jeans from Practice Fusion, the #1 cloud-based electronic medical record and healthcare platform for physicians and patients, where he served as chief financial officer. Prior to Practice Fusion, he held financial leadership roles at Chegg, helping lead the company through its initial public offering, PayPal, helping lead its hyper growth transition from eBay marketplaces payments to merchant services and international expansion, McKesson Corporation, and Ernst & Young.

Frank Vella

CRO

Frank is an accomplished global technology leader known for scaling sales operations in enterprise software companies. He brings 25+ years of experience driving revenue, go-to-market planning, restructurings, M&A and financings. He has a track record of leading with a strategic vision, achieving revenue targets, and delivering value to clients. Most recently, Frank was Vice President of Worldwide Sales for HPE Software where he led the direction and execution of Field Sales, Inside Sales, and Channel Sales teams. Prior to that, he was Chief Operating Officer of Virtustream where he oversaw global business operations and expansion of service and product lines.

Mark Strassman

CPO

Mark Strassman oversees BlueJeans’ product, design, and integrated portfolio strategy to ensure the company continues to build video-first solutions that connect and engage people. Before joining BlueJeans, Mark was Senior Vice President of Products at Blackboard, Inc, where he drove transformation from enterprise to SaaS business models, and from inside-out to a customer-driven, industry-focused strategy. Prior to Blackboard, Mark held various executive management positions at Autodesk, Inc. While managing Autodesk’s core products, AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, Mark reinvigorated the product line with groundbreaking design and functionality that resulted in a doubling of the business. He also held senior marketing and product management positions at Adobe Systems, where he worked on various products, including PageMill, Acrobat and GoLive.

Adam Hyder

SVP of Engineering

Adam drives BlueJeans' product development strategy, vision, engineering and cloud operations. Adam has a demonstrated track record of bringing large-scale, consumer and SaaS products to market and delivering growth. Before joining BlueJeans, Adam was Chief Technology Officer and Head of Product and Engineering at Jobvite, Inc. Prior to Jobvite, Adam served in senior management and executive roles at Yahoo where he ran Yahoo’s advertising platform and Yahoo HotJobs engineering. Adam started his career with Sun Microsystem, where he worked on Java technologies in its early days.

Debbie Murray

VP of People

Debbie is a proven leader who empowers organizations with innovative people engagement and retention strategies. She oversees the human resources, change initiatives, and talent strategies at BlueJeans and brings over 15+ years of experience leading large scale human resources and people management in the enterprise software space. Before joining BlueJeans, Debbie was VP of People at DataStax where she defined, developed, and drove organizational effectiveness. She has a BA in Organizational Communication from the University of San Diego.

Ted Tracy

VP of Engineering

Ted has over 25 years experience developing industry-leading communications software. Prior to BlueJeans, he was founder and GM of the Cisco TelePresence Exchange Business Unit (TXBU), where he developed video technologies used in Cisco's SP-grade B2B Exchange offering and created a highly Agile development process used to deliver TelePresence to the market through a SaaS business model. Prior to Cisco, Ted was a founding member of three communications start-up companies, two of which became very successful public companies. Most recently, Ted was a founder and VPE for Latitude Communications, receiving multiple patents for the MeetingPlace product line that featured voice, web and video conferencing applications for the enterprise.

James Campanini

VP & GM - EMEA

James joins BlueJeans Network with over 22 years networking experience and is responsible for continuing the growth of BlueJeans throughout the EMEA region. Prior to BlueJeans, James spent 17 years at Cisco Systems where he held various Senior Sales and Partner Management positions and was Managing Director for the WebEx business in EMEA and LATAM for three years. He was successful in driving the WebEx SaaS growth and developing a strong partner-led strategy. Most recently James was responsible for Cloud Strategy and Sales across Cisco EMEA, developing the ecosystem, programs and GTM for cloud services across the region.

Mike Kerr

VP of Customer Support

Mike brings over 35 years of leadership experience, delivering successful results for many communications startups. He joined BlueJeans in 2011, building and managing the global supportteam, providing product and service solutions worldwide. Prior to BlueJeans, he developed and managed the support organizations for several SaaS startups, including GoBeam (business VoIP pioneer) and RingCentral. Previously, Mike served in Accounting and General Manager positions with AirTouch, leading the operations of several wireless businesses.