ABOUT ME

Christine Heckart

Christine Heckart is CEO of Scalyr, Inc., a SaaS platform for data and analytics. She is an experienced independent board member and thirty-year veteran of the technology industry with a proven track record in creating new markets, innovating new products, driving digital transformation, and growing revenue streams from nothing to billions of dollars. Christine is seeking a new public board where her digital transformation, SaaS, and market strategy experience will add value as an independent director.

From 2011-2018, Christine served on the Board of Directors of Lam Research, a Fortune 250 semiconductor equipment company, where she served on the Compensation, Audit and Strategy committees. During that time, Lam’s stock rose 1000% from $35 to $350, and the board oversaw two chairman transitions, two CEO transitions (one planned, one unplanned), a successful merger, a failed acquisition attempt, and an exploration of diversification strategies.

From 2015-2019, Christine served on the board of 6sense, Inc., a data analytics company where the board oversaw a CEO transition, repositioned the company into a new category, created of a major new GTM motion, and successfully sold the company. In 2020 she joined the board of Contentful to help it prepare for an IPO in 2021/22.

Christine is known and respected for her experience in creating products and new market categories, driving digital transformation, and developing new sources of revenue. Prior to becoming CEO of Scalyr, Christine held executive roles at Cisco, Microsoft, NetApp, Juniper Networks, and other top technology brands.

While a general manager at Microsoft for the TV, video and music business, Christine’s organization doubled the user base of the $2B Windows Media Center business, created a new category for IPTV and drove revenues from $0 to $300m in the first two years resulting in a billion dollars of revenue in the first six years, created the world’s first paid SaaS music offering, and drove a 30% increase in SaaS revenues.
While chief operating officer at ServiceSource, the company undertook a repositioning from professional services to SaaS for data analytics and increased revenues by 32% in two years.
As CMO for NetApp, Christine’s team created a new category of storage solution which now accounts for over $1B in annual sales.
While at Brocade, company valuation increased 230% as part of a major digital transformation to software and SaaS, she created a new market category for software-defined networking, and drove triple digit growth in IP software sales.
As SVP for Cisco’s entire product portfolio, Christine was responsible for the global go-to-market strategy for each of the business units.
During her tenure as president of TeleChoice, the company doubled revenues for seven consecutive years.

Christine has global experience in business and consumer markets across a range of industries including:

•       Networking  •      Data analytics
•       Wireless •     SaaS
•      Security •       Communications
•       Storage •      Marketing technology
•      TV, Music, Entertainment •     Semiconductor equipment

Christine understands a range of buyers including consumers, CIOs, CISOs, devops, engineers, and marketers.

Leadership Awards and Industry Recognition

Twice named one of the top ten strategic thinkers and fifty most powerful people in the networking industry by IDG and Network World before the age of thirty.
2009 Recipient of the coveted Microsoft Leadership Award
Named one of the Fifty Most Powerful Women in Technology by the National Diversity Council in 2014 and 2015
2016 Woman of Influence, Silicon Valley Business Journal.
Top 100 Silicon Valley Female Leaders, 2017 Silicon Valley Business Journal.
CloudNow 2020 Top Women in Cloud award

Other positions and credentials

Teaching faculty for the Next Generations Directors Academy at the Berkeley Haas School of business, which trains people on all aspects of governance
Board Director for the Silicon Valley Executive Network
Pioneer founding member of Athena Alliance, and Firstboard.io, which help place women on boards
Frequent guest speaker for BDO and at NACD on Digital Transformation
Host of @Maker’s podcast series: Scalying New Heights which interviews top technology executives at SaaS companies about technology, SaaS/cloud transformation, and leadership topics
Member of the Silicon Valley Women’s Director Salon for excellence in governance
Completed board training programs with Stanford, Berkeley Haas and NACD

Personal

Graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder
Wife of 32 years and mother of three amazing adult children, who each plan to change the world
Published author of two technology books
Painter, writer of science fiction, and reader of quantum physics and history