MEET OUR LEADERSHIP

Buno Pati is Chief Executive Officer of Infoworks. Prior to assuming the role of CEO in 2019, Pati held Executive Chairman and Chairman roles at the company from its inception in 2014. Pati brings over 25 years of experience as a CEO, entrepreneur, board member, and investor in technology companies; he is also a Partner at private investment firm Centerview Capital Technology. Prior to Infoworks Buno was CEO and co-founder of Numerical Technologies, a company that redefined how integrated circuits are designed and manufactured, and served as the company’s CEO and Chairman leading the company from inception to a successful IPO (NASDAQ: NMTC). He also helped launch Nexus Venture Partners, a pioneer in Indian venture capital, and has served as Advisor to that firm since January 2012. Early in his career, Buno was an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Harvard University and a postdoctoral research associate at Stanford University.

Amar Arsikere is Founder and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Infoworks. Prior to founding Infoworks in 2015, Amar held leadership roles at Zynga where he built one of the world’s largest database infrastructures. Before Zynga Amar led the engineering team for Google’s Enterprise in the Cloud initiative where he was responsible for building the first data warehousing and analytics platform on Bigtable. Amar pioneered the automation approach for data migration and modernization; he founded Infoworks to make this innovation commercially available to solve the complexity of data in the cloud for enterprise customers.

Ned Hooper is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Infoworks and is also a Founding Partner at Centerview Capital Technology. Previously Ned served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Cisco Systems where he was responsible for business development activities including M&A, equity investments, and the incubation of innovative technologies. Ned brings over 20 years of experience as a senior executive and investor in technology companies and is a board member of numerous private companies.

Kevin Holder is Senior Vice President of Technical Field Operations and Customer Experience at Infoworks leading the field technical organization and customer experience teams. Kevin brings over 20 years of experience in big data and analytics across technology, healthcare, financial services, and logistics industries. He previously served as VP of World Wide Technical Field Operations at Couchbase, where he built a global technical field team spanning pre-sales, post-sales, education, and sales enablement and was instrumental in establishing Couchbase as a leader in the NoSQL space. Before Couchbase, Kevin spent 15 years at Informatica in leadership roles ranging from product management, professional services, strategic account management, vertical market development, and technical pre-sales.

Ash Kumar is Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Infoworks and brings over 20 years of experience in the global enterprise technology, networking, and systems industries. Ash is a creative, results-driven senior executive with a proven track record in sales & operational performance management and complex deal management. Prior to joining Infoworks, Ash led Global Sales and Operations for Affirmed Networks, acquired by Microsoft. Ash has also held leadership positions at Nokia, Amdocs, and UXP Systems. 

Pranav is the Vice President of Engineering at Infoworks. He brings over 20 years of experience working with large enterprises in building data engineering workloads, operational data stores, data lakes, and data warehouses. Prior to Infoworks, Pranav led global technology teams at Target Corporation focusing on enterprise services including automation. He spent 12 years at Walgreens in various engineering and development roles where he built a double mission-critical program to automate, integrate and master data across multiple lines of businesses, and built enterprise services to be served across all the channels.

David Dorman was named Chairman of the Board of Infoworks in January of 2019 and brings over 38 years of senior executive, operational, Board and investment experience. Mr. Dorman is presently Chairman of the Board at CVS Health Corporation and a member of the boards at Dell Technologies and PayPal Holdings, Inc. He has previously served in various executive leadership roles in the Telco industry, including Chairman and CEO of AT&T, Chairman of the Board of Motorola, Chairman, President and CEO of Pacific Bell, and President of Sprint Business.

Amar Arsikere is Founder and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Infoworks. Prior to founding Infoworks in 2015, Amar held leadership roles at Zynga where he built one of the world’s largest database infrastructures. Before Zynga Amar led the engineering team for Google’s Enterprise in the Cloud initiative where he was responsible for building the first data warehousing and analytics platform on Bigtable. Amar pioneered the automation approach for data migration and modernization; he founded Infoworks to make this innovation commercially available to solve the complexity of data in the cloud for enterprise customers.

Bill Davidow has been a high-technology industry executive and a venture investor for more than 50 years. He founded Mohr, Davidow Ventures in 1985 and is the author of five books. While at Intel Corp., Bill served as senior vice president of marketing and sales, vice president of the microcomputer division and Vice President of the microcomputer systems division. Prior to Intel Corp., Bill held managerial positions at Hewlett Packard and General Electric. Bill serves on the boards of California Institute of Technology, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and The California Nature Conservancy. He also sits on the Board of Overseers of the UCSF Medical Foundation.

Ned Hooper is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Infoworks and is also a Founding Partner at Centerview Capital Technology. Previously Ned served as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Cisco Systems where he was responsible for business development activities including M&A, equity investments, and the incubation of innovative technologies. Ned brings over 20 years of experience as a senior executive and investor in technology companies and is a board member of numerous private companies.

Greg Papadopoulos joined NEA as Venture Partner in 2010 after more than twenty years of experience in the technology industry and academia. He focuses on early-stage systems, software and semiconductor companies. Prior to NEA, Greg was EVP and CTO of Sun Microsystems, where he guided the company’s $2B R&D portfolio. Before Sun, Greg was an Associate Professor of EECS at MIT, where he worked on massively parallel dataflow computing architectures. He also helped found a number of companies, from video conferencing (PictureTel) to computational fluid dynamics (NASDAQ:EXA), and was an engineer with HP and Honeywell.

Buno Pati is Chief Executive Officer of Infoworks. Prior to assuming the role of CEO in 2019, Pati held Executive Chairman and Chairman roles at the company from its inception in 2014. Pati brings over 25 years of experience as a CEO, entrepreneur, board member, and investor in technology companies; he is also a Partner at private investment firm Centerview Capital Technology. Prior to Infoworks Buno was CEO and co-founder of Numerical Technologies, a company that redefined how integrated circuits are designed and manufactured, and served as the company’s CEO and Chairman leading the company from inception to a successful IPO (NASDAQ: NMTC). He also helped launch Nexus Venture Partners, a pioneer in Indian venture capital, and has served as Advisor to that firm since January 2012. Early in his career, Buno was an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Harvard University and a postdoctoral research associate at Stanford University.