Asheem Chandna

Who is Asheem Chandna?

Asheem joined Greylock in 2003. His areas of interest include enterprise infrastructure, datacenter, networking and security.

Asheem's company boards and investments include Imperva, Palo Alto Networks, Securent, TechProcess and Xsigo Systems. He is also on the board at Sourcefire (Nasdaq: FIRE).

He was previously on the boards at CipherTrust (acquired by Secure

Computing), NetBoost (acquired by Intel) and PortAuthority Technologies

(acquired by Websense).

Prior to joining Greylock, Asheem spent over fifteen years in

industry operating roles helping create, grow and lead multiple

technology businesses and product lines to market leadership positions.

Most recently, Asheem was vice-president of business development and

product management with Check Point Software Technologies.

During his 6.5 year tenure, Check Point became one of the world's

fastest growing and most profitable companies. Asheem founded the

business development and product management organizations, led

corporate marketing during high growth years, and directed Check

Point's product/business strategy, product management and industry

partnerships. Asheem is also credited with creating, growing and

leading Check Point's OPSEC Alliance into the largest and most

successful security partner program in the IT industry. Prior to Check

Point, Asheem was vice-president of marketing with CoroNet Systems (a

venture-backed startup acquired by Compuware), where he helped create

and define a new product category for application-aware network

monitoring. Previously, Asheem held strategic marketing and product

line positions with SynOptics/Bay Networks and ATT Bell

Laboratories.

Asheem is a Charter Member of TiE Silicon Valley. He is also on the Advisory Board for the RSA Conference and was a Judge for the 2005 and 2006 Wall Street Journal Global Technology Innovation Awards.

Born and raised in India, Asheem holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in

electrical and computer engineering from Case Western Reserve

University.