At EMC, Slootman served as president of EMC’s Backup Recovery Systems Division, and prior to his role at Data Domain, Slootman served as a products executive at Borland Software and Compuware Corporation.
Based on his experience in the enterprise market, Slootman invest in data center infrastructure start-ups, particularly in the virtualization, networking, storage, cloud and enterprise application sectors. He joins existing Greylock partners in the enterprise group, Aneel Bhusri, co-CEO and co-founder of Workday and former SVP at Peoplesoft; and Asheem Chandna, former VP of product and business development at Checkpoint.
Slootman says that he’s particularly bullish on investments that relate to “everything that populates a data center,” including storage, networking and virtualization startups. Recent enterprise investments for Greylock include Cloudera, Zend Technologies, and Actifio.

Authors: Leena Rao