Mark Lockareff serves as GridGain’s President and CEO, driving the company’s strategy and long-term vision, and leading the next phase of rapid growth.
Mark has served dozens of companies as a CEO, senior executive, board member, advisor, and venture capital investor in the SaaS, enterprise infrastructure, big data, storage and cloud markets, including Totango, a Customer Success Management company.
Previously, Mark co-founded ClearPath Partners to provide CEO coaching/advisory services to venture backed technology companies, served on the Investment Committee of Black River Ventures, a European VC firm that focuses on trans-Atlantic mid-stage technology investments, and was Entrepreneur-In-Residence with Almaz Capital Partners. Earlier in his career, Mark was a Managing Director with Bridge Advisory Partners, an advisory firm he founded in 2008 that provided CEO, mentoring, board of director, and executive chairman services to high potential, expansion stage venture, and private equity backed technology companies. While at Bridge, Mark served as the interim CEO at Nexenta, ParAccel, Agiliance, and Apptera. Prior to Bridge, Mark was a Venture Partner at Meritech Capital Partners, a $2.6 billion venture capital firm. Before Meritech, Mark was a Founder and Managing Director of GameChange Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm affiliated with Accenture and Softbank that focused on enterprise software investments. Prior to that, he was VP, Corporate Development at Excite@Home and VP & GM of Classified Advertising for Excite. Earlier in his career, he was VP&GM at Classifieds2000, a product manager at Echelon, an investment banker at Salomon Brothers, and started his career in sales at IBM.
Over his career, Mark has led and supported venture capital investments in: Acopia, AmberPoint, AudienceScience, Facebook, Kanisa, Lyten, Model N, ProofPoint, Quigo, Riverbed, and Softricity.
Mark holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Economics from Stanford University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
