For five years prior to joining Gluster, Ben served as the President and CEO of Plaxo, a social networking infrastructure pioneer backed by industry luminaries Michael Moritz (Sequoia), Ram Shriram, Globespan Capital and Cisco. Ben led Plaxo through a complete turnaround, bringing the company to profitability, over 20 million users, and a large and successful acquisition by Comcast Interactive Media. Prior to Plaxo, he held a number of executive roles at VeriSign including Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President/General Manager of the Enterprise Security, SSL and Payments divisions. Before VeriSign, Ben held a number of product development, operations and business development roles at companies such as Avid Technology and Sun Microsystems. Ben holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Policy from Princeton University and serves on a number of for-profit and non-profit boards including TrustE, BlueSwarm, and Partners for Youth with Disabilities.
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