Management Team
The management team at Keynote represents years of management experience with proven track records in leading large technology companies, as well as developing high-tech startups into successful, publicly owned companies. Click on any of the names below to see individual biographies.
- Umang Gupta, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
- Anshu Agarwal, Vice President of Marketing
- Don Aoki, Senior Vice President of Professional Services
- Vik Chaudhary, Vice President of Product Management and Corporate Development
- Drew Hamer, Chief Financial Officer and VP of Finance
- Krishna Khadloya, Vice President of Engineering
- Jeff Kraatz, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Services
- Eric Stokesberry, Vice President of IT & Operations
Umang Gupta
has served since 1997 as chairman and chief executive officer of Keynote Systems (NASDAQ: KEYN), the global leader in test and measurement solutions that improve mobile communications and online business performance. A well-known technology visionary and Silicon Valley entrepreneur, Umang began his career in 1973 with IBM. Umang joined Oracle Corporation in 1981 where he wrote the first business plan for the company, and served as Vice President and General Manager of the Microcomputer Products Division through 1984. He left Oracle to become Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Gupta Corporation, which he took public in 1993 (NASDAQ: GPTA). Gupta Corporation was responsible for ushering in the era of enterprise client/server computing by introducing many seminal innovations, including the world's first client/server relational database system for PC networks in 1988. Umang has also been an active investor and advisor to a number of Silicon Valley start-up companies including serving on the Board of Trustees of Mosaix, a publicly held call-center systems company from 1997 to 1999 until its sale to Lucent Technologies.
Umang received his Bachelor of Technology degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur in 1971 and his M.B.A. from Kent State University in Ohio, USA in 1972. In 1996, Umang received the Distinguished Alumnus Award of the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur for his outstanding contributions to Information Technology and entrepreneurial achievements. In addition to his professional activities, Umang has previously served on the board of the Peninsula Community Foundation, a San Mateo based public charity that builds investment and involvement in community. He is also an avid history buff and serves on the Board of the San Mateo Historical Association. He is also Chairman of the IIT Kanpur Foundation and Board Chairman of PanIIT USA. In 2000, Umang was the honored recipient of the Asian Pacific Foundation Award for Civic Leadership and Philanthropy.
Anshu Agarwal serves as vice president of marketing. He is responsible for all of Keynote’s corporate marketing, product marketing and public relations. Mr. Agarwal has been involved with developing and leading marketing and public relations in companies ranging from HP to Shutterfly. While at Shutterfly he developed the core photo-cards business, the core profit engine for the company. He went on to lead all product marketing, online marketing and public relations for Fireman’s Fund’s commercial business. Mr. Agarwal has honed his marketing expertise through l7 years of experience across industries in both public and private companies including Hewlett Packard, Foundry Networks, Deloitte & Touche and startups funded by Benchmark Capital, Mohr, Davidow and Jim Clark. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and an M.B.A. from NYU Stern School of Business.
Don Aoki serves as senior Vice President of Professional Services. Mr. Aoki has over 20 years of technology management and commercial software development experience. Before Keynote, he was a General Manager at Aspect Communications. His prior responsibilities included roles as Director of Development at TIBCO and Senior Director of Development at Oracle Corporation. Mr. Aoki began his career at Bell Labs, holds a MS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
Vik Chaudhary serves as vice president of product management and corporate development. He is responsible for leading Keynote’s product strategy, sales enablement, and executing on the company’s acquisitions and partnerships. Mr. Chaudhary has spent 19 years in chief executive, marketing, and engineering positions at blue-chip and start-up technology companies. At Keynote, he previously served as vice president of marketing and corporate development, extending the company into new markets via ten acquisitions. Before joining Keynote, he was CEO of on-demand analytics company Bizmetric, ran product management at database pioneer Gupta Technologies, and led core software engineering teams at Oracle. Mr. Chaudhary is a frequent speaker at industry events on software strategy and M&A, and has been featured in the New York Times and on the ABC News Nightline program. Mr. Chaudhary holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Drew Hamer serves as chief financial officer and vice president of finance. Mr. Hamer joined Keynote in June 2005 as Corporate Controller and served in that position until December 2005. He is a CPA and a seasoned finance executive with over 12 years in financial leadership positions in high tech companies. He has held CFO and vice president of finance and administration positions at KnowNow, IQ Labs, and Intraspect software. Mr. Hamer was the director of finance at Excite@Home from January 1997 until May 2000. Prior to that, Mr. Hamer held a series of financial leadership positions at Sybase, culminating in his position as group controller overseeing a software development group at the company with revenues in excess of $150 million. Mr. Hamer holds both a B.S. and M.A. in accounting.
Jeff Kraatz serves as senior vice president of worldwide sales & services. Mr. Kraatz has over 25 years of management experience in technology, communications, and Internet business. A seasoned international executive, he has pioneered and scaled highly successful Asian operations for a number of U.S. based technology firms. Prior to joining Keynote, Mr. Kraatz was the Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Caspian Networks. Kraatz also founded and built an Asian focused international sales and marketing consulting accelerator to bridge Asian and U.S. businesses, and was CEO of two divergent B2B e-commerce firms. Previously, he held a number of senior management positions over a ten-year period with voice messaging leader, Octel Communications. At Octel he built successful channel programs, ran national account operations, and while based in Hong Kong, built Octel into a mature market leader in Asia prior to its acquisition by Lucent Technologies in 1997. Earlier in his career, Kraatz spent ten years building SPRINT from a start up to a significant market provider of network-based services and communications solutions. He holds a B.A. in Economics from University of California at Los Angeles.
Eric Stokesberry serves as vice president of IT & Operations. He oversees the management of Keynote’s global measurement infrastructure of over 2000 measurement computers in 200+ worldwide locations, primary and backup data centers, and a 24 x 7 Network Operations Center. Mr. Stokesberry is also responsible for the corporate IT function and basic technical support. He has been with Keynote for seven years and has been instrumental in building and scaling the production systems to handle over 60 million measurements per day while holding management positions in both Engineering and Operations. Prior to Keynote, Mr. Stokesberry spent over six years at Network General Corporation as both an Engineer and a Product Manager working on the Sniffer line of network management and troubleshooting products. Mr. Stokesberry earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
