Erik is COO at Tetrate where he brings more than 25 years of marketing, sales and product experience. He has significant knowledge in cloud infrastructure, application development, open source, and security software for both software startups as well as large enterprise software companies. Prior to Tetrate, Erik was CMO at Puppet, SVP of Cloud, Product and Integrated Marketing at VMware, and has held senior marketing positions at MongoDB, HP Software, BEA and other start-ups.