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Reza Malekzadeh is a San Francisco-based software executive and entrepreneur of French nationality, noted for his active role in the development of virtualization leader VMware〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VMware Makes Move for Server with Two New Products )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LinuxTicker: Emulating a complete PC with VMware )〕 and several entrepreneurial ventures. Most recently, he had joined Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners funded software startup Nimbula as its VP of Marketing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nimbula puffs up 'cloud operating system' )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Diane Greene is back: Nimbula leaves the stealth mode and enters the IaaS cloud computing market )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Nimbula Announces $15 Million Series B Round of Financing; Total Funding Exceeds $20 Million )〕 In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation.〔http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/acquisitions/nimbula/index.html〕 Malekzadeh left and joined Startup Cumulus Networks, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Peter Wagner and 4 of the 5 original VMware founders.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cumulus Networks™ Brings The Power Of Linux® To Networking )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cumulus Networks Management Team )〕 == Career == Reza Malekzadeh was born in Iran and raised in France where he graduated from leading Business School HEC〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Best Minds Bidding France Adieu )〕 class of 1995. He moved to Silicon Valley and started his career at software startup NetCarta as Product Manager for the flagship product WebMapper. NetCarta was acquired by Microsoft.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Microsoft Agrees to Acquire NetCarta )〕 He then joined the Softway Group in San Francisco and simultaneously launched his first entrepreneurial venture: with friend Gregoire Gentil he formed Pilot Plus, a software company delivering products on the then nascent Palm Pilot platform. Pilot Plus released the ToDo Plus and Memo Plus applications, which rapidly became top sellers on the leading Palm Pilot e-commerce site, PalmPilotGear. Gentil and Malekzadeh sold Pilot Plus to Hands High Software in 1998.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pilot PLUS Joins Forces with Hands High Software )〕 Reza Malekzadeh then joined VMware, co-founded by Mendel Rosenblum, Diane Greene and Edouard Bugnion. He was the first non engineer employed by the company and served as its Director of Marketing. As such, he was instrumental in launching the company in February 1999 at the DEMO Conference organized by Chris Shipley. He also served as one of the primary spokespeople for the company throughout its early years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VMware ready to capitalize on hot server market )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dual Virtual Systems Don't Duel )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Plex86, VMware compete to get rid of dual booting )〕 Reza Malekzadeh left VMware in late 2003 and, again with friend Gregoire Gentil, started a new venture, Twingo Systems. Twingo Systems was a leading provider of desktop security solutions for Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). The company was first launched at the DEMO conference (DEMOMobile) in 2003 and its first customer was Sygate. Twingo Systems was acquired by Cisco Systems on March 12, 2004. Both Gentil and Malekzadeh joined Cisco in the Security Technology Group. Reza Malekzadeh left Cisco in 2005 to join software startup Akimbi Systems, funded by Partech International, Mayfield Fund and Hummer Winblad as its Vice President for International. In that role, he drove significant international growth, including sales, marketing and channel operations.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Akimbi Systems Announces Global Expansion and Internationalized Release of Akimbi Slingshot )〕 VMware acquired Akimbi in 2006.〔(【引用サイトリンク】VMware Advances Software Lifecycle Management )〕 Following that acquisition, Reza Malekzadeh re-joined VMware as its Senior Director for Products and Marketing in EMEA. In that role, he was responsible for all of the company's marketing operations in Europe Middle East and Africa, including its annual user conference (VMWorld ). Reza Malekzadeh's leadership allowed the conference to draw a record number of attendees in 2009 despite the economic crisis and travel restrictions that most companies had put in place.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VMworld Europe Draws Record Number of Attendees Who Learn How Virtualization Enables IT as a Service for Increased Flexibility, Control and Choice )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=VMware Announces Speaker and Exhibitor Lineups for VMworld Europe 2009 )〕 He left VMware in the summer of 2009. Reza Malekzadeh was an official blogger on the VMware corporate website〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Value of a Mature Platform: Hyper-V vs. VMware Infrastructure )〕 and spoke at various conferences around the world〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reza Malekzadeh speaks at VMWare conference in Israel )〕 including Gartner and VMworld. Reza Malekzadeh is co-author of several software patents: *Gentil; Gregoire Alexandre (Mountain View, CA), Malekzadeh; Alireza (Mountain View, CA), Number 7,162,628, Method, system, apparatus, and program product for temporary personalization of a computer terminal *Gentil; Gregoire Alexandre (Palo Alto, CA), Malekzadeh; Alireza (Palo Alto, CA), NumberD/169,541, Portable electronic storage device 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Reza Malekzadeh (entrepreneur)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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