Board of Directors

Mickey Arabelovic

Mickey is a Partner with Sequoia Capital focusing on growth stage technology and healthcare companies. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2007, Mickey worked at Summit Partners where he was involved in investments in the financial services, consumer products and technology sectors. Earlier, he was an investment banker with Brown Gibbons Lang, where he worked on a variety of M&A, equity and debt transactions in the services sector.

Mickey has a BBA in Finance from the University of Michigan.

Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan

Sharmila was the first business executive to join the Aster Data founding team and led the company’s product strategy and marketing resulting in Aster Data’s leadership position in the ‘Big Data’ market. Aster Data was acquired by Teradata in April 2011. Prior to Aster Data, Sharmila was Chief Marketing Officer of the largest business unit (BTO) within HP Software. Prior to HP, Sharmila was Executive Vice President of Marketing at Opsware Inc., leading marketing from 2002 to its eventual acquisition by HP in 2007. Sharmila was also VP Marketing at Netscape, VP at Kiva Software and held management positions at Microsoft and General Magic.

Sharmila received her Master’s in management from the Kellogg Graduate School and her BA in business and economics and BS in computer science from Northwestern University.

Shashi Upadhyay, Ph.D.

Shashi is the cofounder and CEO of Lattice Engines and is responsible for advancing the company's vision to deliver world-class analytics software to a global base of Fortune 5000 customers. Before founding Lattice Engines, he was a Partner at McKinsey & Company where he served Fortune 500 clients on improving productivity. During the last downturn, he worked with the CEOs of several troubled companies to help conduct operational and strategic turnarounds. He is currently an advisor to Amar Chitra Katha, the leading children's publication in India.

Shashi holds an undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University.

Kent McCormick, Ph.D.

Kent is the cofounder and President of Lattice Engines and is responsible for setting product direction and deployment activities. Before founding Lattice Engines, Kent served as director of business operations at EMC. In this role, he had been leading pricing and operational analytics for all of EMC. Before this, Kent was a consultant at McKinsey & Company - working with Fortune 500 companies on product development, sales & marketing business problems.

Kent received a Ph.D. in Physics from Berkeley, and before that a dual-degree in Physics and Mathematics from Rice University.