About
Dave Stevens has been an investor, entrepreneur, and operating executive in the technology industry for more than 25 years. Dave was a co-founder of Palo Alto Networks, Inc. in 2005 and served as its Chief Executive Officer until 2008. In that role, he developed the foundational vision and market entry strategy for the company’s transformative technology. Dave also served as a Venture Partner at Foundation Capital where he was responsible for investments in the communications, computing, storage and wireless sectors. Most recently, he was the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Corporate Development for Brocade, where he led the company’s technology strategy, key business initiatives, M&A and investment portfolio as it focused on the evolving data center infrastructure within enterprises, cloud service providers and federal markets.Dave holds a BS, Electrical Engineering and a MS, Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia.
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- • 2 investors at Forcepoint are tracked.
- • 1 investors hold the EVP Strategy role in VCSift. Dave Stevens is one of them.
- • 7,285 investors are based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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