Charles Giancarlo Board’s Director, Tintri

Tintri Inc. announced Charles Giancarlo has joined the company’s board of directors.

He was formerly EVP and CTO for Cisco Systems and currently serves on the boards of Accenture, Arista, Avaya and ServiceNow. He previously served on the boards of Skype and Netflix.
 
“Charles is one of the most accomplished and respected leaders in our industry,” said Ken Klein, CTO and co-founder. “He brings extraordinary industry knowledge and experience guiding category leaders in high growth segments. His support validates the strength of Tintri’s technology and the company’s ability to help enterprise customers and cloud service providers realise their hybrid cloud vision. Charles aligns himself with companies that lead their markets, and so we’re honoured that he has joined the Tintri board of directors.”
 
“Tintri is trusted by many Fortune 500 companies,” Giancarlo said. “Its unique AWS-like architecture is specifically designed for virtualised and cloud environments. And so it can uniquely deliver the agile and automated infrastructure organisations need, freeing them to focus on applications and business services instead of managing storage. I’m excited to be part of this leadership team.”
 
Giancarlo has more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry. He was a senior advisor to Silver Lake Partners and MD and head of Value Creation. During his 14 years at Cisco, he was central to the company’s growth and responsible for products that delivered more than 80%  of company revenue.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Brown University, a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard.