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Aneal Vallurupalli is VP of Finance and Operations at Mattermost, Inc. Prior to joining Mattermost, Aneal was the Head of Strategic Finance at Mapbox, where he led the company’s $164M Series C round of funding from SoftBank. He also was a founding member of the Corporate Development team at Guidewire (NYSE:GWRE), helping to grow it from an $800 million to a $7 billion public company. He began his career in technology as an investment banker at Union Square Advisors, completing a range of public and private M&A transactions including buy-side, sell-side, corporate divestitures, and private placements. Aneal graduated from Santa Clara University, where he played Division I tennis. He serves on the Board of Directors for The Saint Francis Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that benefits Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and the Tenderloin community.

Chris Overton is VP of Engineering at Mattermost, Inc. He spent his early career in the security space, working with startups in the anti-spyware, encryption, content filtering, and anti-virus spaces. He’s built software for mobile, PC, Mac, web applications, servers, and hardware appliances. Chris’ last several roles have focused on the public and hybrid cloud. Specifically, Chris has had a focus on building and operating public SaaS services, distributed systems, analytics/processing of large data sets, and search. Chris comes to Mattermost from Elastic, where he served as VP of Engineering and was responsible for the Cloud product division.

Barry comes to Mattermost with over 20 years of experience with open source software where he led Customer Success, Customer Support and Services with companies such as Red Hat, Alfresco and Hortonworks. Prior to his career in technology he served as a US Army Special Forces Officer.

Matt Harper joins Mattermost as VP of Marketing, where he’ll help build out our marketing function and build the growth engine to scale up our Go-To-Market efforts.

Early in his career, Matt led community at Sony Playstation I’m super excited to bring someone who shares our company’s past game industry and consumer DNA onto the leadership team.