David Scott Board’s Director, AppDynamics

AppDynamics, Inc., an application intelligence company, announced the appointment to its board of David C. Scott, who was until recently senior VP and GM of the global HP storage business, responsible for the long-term growth and profitability of HP’s $4 billion storage technology business in the U.S.

He brings 32 years of experience in the enterprise IT infrastructure industry to the board, where he joins Jyoti Bansal, founder and CEO of AppDynamics, Asheem Chandna of Greylock Partners, Ravi Mhatre of Lightspeed Venture Partners, Dev Ittycheria, CEO of MongoDB, and Chuck Robel, former McAfee COB.

Scott was the president and CEO of 3PAR, Inc., a storage company that created and defined the market for utility storage designed for service provider IT models. He was CEO of 3PAR for almost 10 years (2001 – 2010) as it evolved from a venture-backed private company, to a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange in November 2007, and finally to its acquisition by HP in 2010. During his tenure, 3PAR expanded a high-profile and satisfied customer base in large- and medium-sized enterprises, government agencies, and service providers. At the same time, 3PAR expanded R&D operations into Northern Ireland and developed sales operations globally in the US, UK, Japan, AsiaPac, Europe and South Africa.

Before he joined 3PAR, Scott proved himself during his 18 years at HP, where he held various executive positions in marketing and general management in the company’s storage, computing and networking product areas both in the UK and the US.

He is currently on the board of trustees for Castilleja School (May 2015 – present) and also served on the board of trustees for Bowman International Montessori School (2010 – 2013).

He holds a BSc (Honors) in computer science and mathematics from the University of Bristol in the UK (1983), where he also received an honorary Doctorate of Engineering (2014).

“We are honored to welcome David Scott to the AppDynamics board of directors,” said Jyoti Bansal, founder and CEO, AppDynamics. “David brings real depthin building fast growth enterprise organizations and will provide invaluable insights and counsel as we scale AppDynamics worldwide.”

“In this new digital age dominated by applications and software-defined businesses, application intelligence will drive and determine who the winners are through an obsessive focus on customer experience and overall business performance,” said Scott. “AppDynamics is both defining and leading the application intelligence category and I am thrilled to be part of this journey.”