About

Carl Eschenbach Bio…

Carl is a partner at Sequoia Capital, focusing on infrastructure technologies, cloud, and SaaS investments. He is a director of Aurora, Cohesity, Gong, Palo Alto Networks, Salt Security, Snowflake, UiPath, Workday, and Zoom. He is involved with Sequoia Capital portfolio companies, including GitHub (Microsoft), Medallia, ThousandEyes, Retool, and StackRox. Carl has thirty years of high-tech industry experience, including infrastructure software, networking, telephony, and storage.

Before joining Sequoia in 2016, Carl was President and COO of VMware, where he helped grow the company from $31 million in his first full year to $7 billion in revenues and from 200 people to 20,000. Prior to joining VMware, Carl was Vice President of North America Sales at Inktomi and held various sales leadership positions with 3Com, EMC, and Lucent Technologies. Carl has a passion for leadership and enjoys helping leaders achieve their fullest potential. Recently Carl was inducted into the US National Wrestling Hall of Fame as an Outstanding American. The Outstanding American award is presented to those individuals who have used the disciplines of wrestling to launch notable careers in other walks of life, such as science and technology, business and industry, government and the military, and the arts and humanities. Outside of work, he spends time with his family and staying physically fit.