Loris Degioanni

CTO & Founder

Loris Degioanni is the CTO and founder of Sysdig, the cloud native visibility and security company. He is also the creator of the popular open source troubleshooting tool, sysdig, and the open source container security tool Falco. Prior to founding Sysdig, Loris co-created Wireshark, the open source network analyzer, which today has 20+ million users. Loris holds a PhD in computer engineering from Politecnico di Torino and lives in Davis, California.

Suresh Vasudevan

CEO

Suresh Vasudevan serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Sysdig, Inc. since February 2018. Prior to joining Sysdig, Suresh was the president and CEO of Nimble Storage, Inc. His tenure extended from March 2011 until its acquisition by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) in May 2017. During his time at the company, he led Nimble from a startup, through a successful IPO, and on to be a leading provider of next-generation flash storage systems and a pioneer in leveraging predictive analytics for infrastructure management, with more than $500 million in annualized revenues and over 10,000 customers. Prior to Nimble Storage, he was the CEO of Omneon (acquired by Harmonic Inc.), and previously served as a member of the executive team at NetApp, overseeing all product operations. During a decade-long career at NetApp, Suresh led the company’s product strategy and product development and was a key architect of the steady expansion of NetApp’s product portfolio into new markets. Before joining NetApp, Suresh served at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co. in New Delhi, Mumbai, and Chicago as a senior engagement manager. He holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, with honors, from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) in Pilani, India and an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Calcutta, India.

Ping Li

Board Member

Ping Li focuses on enterprise software application and datacenter platform investments. He is the lead investor and board member at Blue Jeans, Code 42, Heptio, Plays.tv, Semmle, Split.io, Sysdig and Trifacta. Ping is also active in the security space as an investor at Illumio, Lookout Mobile Security and Tenable Network Security (NASDAQ).

He was also responsible for numerous past investments with notable exits, including Arista (NASDAQ), Cloudera (NYSE), Nimble Storage (NYSE), Reactivity (acquired by Cisco) and RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce). Prior to Accel, Ping served as product line manager and director of corporate development at Juniper Networks.  He started his technology career in Asia working for Singapore Telecom and Goldman Sachs Asia’s technology practice.

Ping advises the Accel Scholars program at Stanford University, where he works with PhD students learning about entrepreneurship. He is from New Jersey and graduated from Harvard and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

https://www.accel.com/team/ping-li

Salil Deshpande

Board Member

Salil focuses on early-stage infrastructure software, open source, and crypto. Salil has been named to the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 venture capitalists in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018; and to the CB Insights list of 100 Top venture capitalists in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Over the last 13 years Salil has invested more than $350M into over 52 companies, early, including MuleSoft, Lending Club, Buddy Media, SpringSource, Redis Labs, SysDig, DynaTrace, Basis, Compound, Jambool, Dropcam, Tealium, Lightbend, Hazelcast, Groovy & Grails, Gradle, Sonatype, Frame, DataStax, Zeroturnaround, and Philz Coffee.

Eric Wolford

Board Advisor

Eric Wolford joined Accel in 2014 and focuses on enterprise infrastructure companies. He leverages his infrastructure and IT experience in working with founders across the enterprise stack, from next-gen analytics platforms like Jut, to emerging cloud security and threat detection companies like Netskope and Vectra. Eric also co-leads the Accel Tech Council.

Prior to Accel, Eric spent years in a variety of product and management roles at FastForward Networks, Inktomi and most recently, at Riverbed where he was president of the products group. There, he oversaw the growth of Riverbed’s flagship WAN optimization and app acceleration platforms, which grew to be a USD $1 billion+ business.

Eric is from the Bay Area, graduated from Pepperdine and has an MBA from NYU. 

accel.com/team/eric-wolford