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Jyoti Bansal is a serial entrepreneur and a silicon valley technology visionary. Jyoti believes passionately in software’s ability to change the world for the better. In 2008, he founded AppDynamics, an application intelligence company that provides enterprises with real-time insights into application performance. Jyoti led the company as Founder & CEO for the first eight years, and as Founder & Chairman for the last one year until its acquisition by Cisco for $3.7 Billion in January 2017.

Jyoti has been a recipient of many leadership awards, including Forbes’ “Best Cloud Computing CEO to Work For”, and “Best CEO” by San Francisco Business Times at the Annual Tech & Innovation Award. He was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year™ for Northern California in 2016.

Jyoti received his BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Prior to founding AppDynamics, Jyoti worked at various silicon valley startups as a software engineer and architect. Jyoti is the lead inventor on 20+ US patents.

As Chief Revenue Officer, Jason is responsible for leading and growing Harness’ sales function worldwide.

Prior to joining Harness, Jason was Chief Revenue Officer at Markforged, the industry-leading 3D printer manufacturing company, where he led the company’s worldwide sales, marketing, and business operations effort — scaling the company from 71 employees to over 200 and growing bookings 400% in the process. Prior to Markforged, Jason was the Global Vice President of Sales, Services, and Alliances at Twilio, the world’s leading developer platform for software embedded communications. Jason helped Twilio through explosive growth and a multi-billion dollar IPO.

Before Twilio, Jason ran Worldwide Field Sales at Meraki, which was acquired by Cisco for $1.2 billion in 2012. He has also held leadership roles at CA Technologies and BMC.

Scott is a global marketing and growth executive with a 25-year track record of creating and executing marketing and growth strategies that deliver results for both growth-stage, VC-backed startups and Fortune 100s alike. Most recently Scott was Head of Cloud Native and Developer Marketing at AWS, where he was responsible for leading the global marketing and growth efforts across a portfolio that spanned services like Containers, Serverless, and Developer Tools. Prior to AWS, Scott was part of the executive team that helped grow Metacloud to acquisition by Cisco, where he went on to build a global cloud marketing and growth function that helped create what has become a successful $15B software and subscription business.

An experienced leader, Scott has built and inspired teams to deliver strategies and campaigns that have achieved winning positions in SaaS and cloud infrastructure. He’s even helped lead a Presidential campaign.

John Bonney oversees the Harness company’s finance and accounting function. Prior to Harness, he oversaw rapid growth as the CFO at Mapbox as well as FinancialForce, the latter quadrupling revenues to over $100M during his tenure. Prior to that, he was the Division CFO of the Cloud Business unit at SAP where he oversaw over $1 billion of Cloud revenues across multiple business units, products, and geographies. Bonney joined SAP from Ariba as a senior finance executive who helped drive rapid expansion and ultimately the sale of Ariba to SAP for $4.3 billion.

As General Counsel, Jill is responsible for leading Harness' legal function. Throughout her career, Jill has advised leading technology companies in Silicon Valley, both public and private. Before joining Harness, Jill was the General Counsel at Avi Networks, which culminated in a successful acquisition by VMware. Prior to Avi Networks, Jill was a Senior Director at FireEye, where she managed the commercial team, built the global compliance and legal operations functions, managed international expansion and integration of acquisitions and strategic transactions. Prior to FireEye, Jill spent 12 years at NetApp and was a key contributor to the growth and expansion of the Legal Department. She was responsible for corporate securities, public company reporting and compliance, commercial contracts, and building the company-wide commercial legal team.

Jill received her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her J.D. from Santa Clara University.

Luan Lam is the Chief People Officer, responsible for all Harness People/Workplace Strategies & Operations.

In his most recent position at AppDynamics, he led the Talent Acquisition & Operations function where he was instrumental in scaling the company from 150 to almost 2,000 employees globally. He is also a talent advisor to Unusual Ventures.

Previously, Luan has served as an advisor for companies like PlanGrid, Headhuntr.io, and 8×8 Inc. He also served as a Guest Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley for the “Organization and Management” course with the International Diploma Programs. Luan holds a degree in International Relations from the University of California, Davis. He has written articles on the “War for Talent”; and has been featured in several publications including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and San Francisco Business Times, specifically on the art and science behind recruiting.

As a member of the executive team Manuel “Manny” Ruiz is responsible for Customer Success. He leads all post sales functions at Harness including the CSM, Support and Education teams.

Manny has over 20 years experience in the tech industry, originally in a variety of hands on technical roles working directly with customer implementations. At MobileIron he built the CS team from scratch to a 150 person worldwide organization. In that time MobileIron grew from 0 to over 15,000 customers and from a private company through a successful IPO. In addition he has held executive Customer Success leadership positions previously with Sauce Labs and InfluxData.

Thiya is responsible for leading the company’s global engineering organization, including its R&D; teams in San Francisco and Bangalore, India.Thiya previously spent five years scaling Zoom from less than 12 million ARR in the early days to post IPO growth, ultimately leading a team of more than 600 people, launching the company’s marketplace, and significantly expanding its ecosystem. Thiya has also held key engineering leadership roles at Saba, Plantronics, and Cisco.