Michael Grant's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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VP of Products @ Appthority (acquired by Symantec) Pioneered app-centric enterprise mobile security solutions as a recognized product leader in the enterprise Mobile Threat Defense market. Appthority's security-as-a-service Mobile Threat Protection (MTP) product, using machine learning and dynamic runtime analysis technologies, enabled customers to protect both corporate and employee personal data from mobile device, app and network threats. From August 2014 to October 2018 (4 years 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaExecutive in Residence @ Red Rock Ventures Venture capital partnership EIR focused on early-stage portfolio company consulting activities along with incubating possible new startup investments. Handled numerous due diligence projects in addition to product and marketing consulting to portfolio company management teams. Successfully incubated distributed, highly scalable database networking company for spin-out and funding. Further incubation efforts led to founding of Redmojo Inc., a datacenter virtual machine orchestration and management company. From 2002 to 2003 (1 year) Vice President, Applications Products @ Documentum Led product and marketing team to successfully integrate Relevance software platform with existing Documentum CMS products. Transitioned to lead Products for new Documentum applications business. Collaborated closely with software engineering teams to define and build vertical market CMS applications. Successfully planned and executed launch of Documentum applications business. From 1998 to 1999 (1 year) Vice President, Marketing & Products @ Relevance Technologies, Inc. (acquired Documentum, Inc.) Innovative intranet content management product using collaborative filtering and semantic analysis technologies to automate content categorization, organization, and publishing workflows. Responsibilities included product marketing, product management, and demand-generation programs development. From 1995 to 1998 (3 years) San Francisco Bay AreaSenior Product Manager @ Apple, Inc. Product manager within new business unit focused on expanding Apple brand and products into emerging interactive consumer electronics market. Drove product planning and management for interactive media programming system, along with related business development efforts targeting OEM partnerships with leading Japanese consumer electronics companies. Incubated and led product team to build and deploy new residential touchscreen phone prototypes for user trials in conjunction with regional phone company telephony services. From 1991 to 1994 (3 years) Product Manager @ Sun Microsystems Product line and management responsibility for all personal computer local area networking and email product lines for Sun Entry Systems division. From 1985 to 1988 (3 years) Consulting/Advisor/Coach @ Agilestartup San Francisco Bay AreaCEO @ Cloudscaling, Inc. (acquired EMC Corp.) Leading provider of elastic hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions. Executed successful business transition from custom private cloud professional services business to a new product-focused, turn-key EC2 compatible private cloud vendor. Led product and business strategy to deliver hybrid cloud solutions integrating Amazon Web Services & Google Cloud public cloud services with Cloudscaling's Open Cloud System private elastic infrastructure solution. Successfully raised two rounds of venture financing (Series A & B) including strategic investors Juniper Networks and Seagate. From February 2011 to July 2013 (2 years 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaVenture Consulting @ Venture Capital Took active corporate director, executive leadership, and product consulting roles in several venture-backed SaaS and IT infrastructure businesses. Responsibilities included extensive business reassessments and action plans covering strategy, team, product, and go-to-market. Business outcomes included driving and executing successful M&A. From January 2008 to February 2011 (3 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCEO @ Redmojo, Inc. (acquired Novell, Inc.) Co-founded innovative data-center virtualization management and orchestration company. Led initial product strategy & management to negotiate core technology IP transfer and new business spinout from original corporate entity. Managed all products, marketing, channel partner development, along with early customer direct selling to corporate enterprise IT customers. Initiated strategic partnerships with leading data-center management companies leading to acquisition by the Novell Corporation. Negotiated and managed M&A terms and acquisition process to completion. From 2003 to 2007 (4 years) CEO @ Ejasent Inc (acquired Veritas) Joined venture seed funded technology company to lead process of validating and entering early infrastructure-as-a-service market focused on dynamic e-commerce application scaling. Led company from early-stage technology development to market entry and customer acquisition. Recruited senior management team, developed market and product entry strategies from initial technology concepts to serve as foundation for $26m Series B financing. Drove closing early customer deals with Charles Schwab, United Airlines, Sprint, and AOL/MapQuest.Acquired by Veritas, Inc. From 1999 to 2001 (2 years) Mountain View, CAProduct Manager @ Macromedia Macromedia was a leading multimedia software tools company focused on enabling the authoring of interactive content. Responsibilities included product management and product line expansion from Mac to include Microsoft Windows platform. Managed critical relationship with Microsoft and successfully negotiated licensing key file format technologies to Microsoft for inclusion in new version of Windows.Acquired by Adobe, Inc. From 1988 to 1991 (3 years)