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Ellen Salisbury

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Managing Director of Start Smart Labs; Former VP BizOps at Altiscale & VP Eng at Yahoo at SignalFire

San Carlos, California, United States

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About

Ellen Salisbury is Managing Director of Start Smart Labs, an incubator focused on startups building data-intensive applications on Hadoop. She previously served as Vice President of Business Operations at Altiscale and as Vice President of Engineering at Yahoo!. She earned a BA in Humanities from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago.

Experience

  1. Start Smart Labs/Start Smart VenturesFounder & Managing Directorcurrent2012 — presentPalo Alto CA
  2. StartSmart Labs India Private LimitedDirector2012 — 2026Chennai, India
  3. AqferSVP, Business Operations2016 — 2021Palo Alto, CA
  4. AltiscaleConsultant2014 — 2016Palo Alto, CA
  5. AltiscaleVP, Business Operations2012 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
  6. HortonworksConsultant (part time)2012Sunnyvale
  7. Yahoo!VP, Engineering, Office of the CTO2011 — 2012
  8. Cambridge West VenturesFounder & Managing Director2009 — 2010
  9. Blancspot Media, LLCAdvisor2009 — 2010
  10. TimeBridgeAdvisor2008 — 2010
  11. TimeBridgeVP, Engineering and Operations2007 — 2008
  12. Menttium CorporationVolunteer Mentor2001 — 2009
  13. Yahoo!Director , Yahoo! Research Berkeley2005 — 2007
  14. Yahoo!Director of Engineering2004 — 2005
  15. Stata LabsSr. VP, Products & Services2004
  16. Brightmail, Inc.VP of Engineering2000 — 2002
  17. Silicon EnergyVP of Engineering1999 — 2000
  18. Softrax CorpVP of Product Development1999
  19. Sybase, Inc.VP, Data Warehousing1996 — 1998
  20. Digital Equipment Corp.Group Engineering Manager1989 — 1996

Skills & more

Product Development20Strategic Planning13Team Building16Change Management14Investments6Software Planning4Start-ups71Cross-functional Team Leadership21Mentoring3Cloud Computing21SaaS13Software Development20
+10 moreProduct ManagementStrategyExecutive ManagementLeadershipEntrepreneurshipManagementProgram ManagementAgile MethodologiesScrumStrategic Partnerships

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Colleagues at SignalFire

Aayush Sharma
Senior Associate at SignalFire
Alex Hooshmand
Co-founder ZaiNar & Bluekai at SignalFire
Andrew Reid
Director, GTM Recruiting at SignalFire
Asher Bantock
Head of Research at SignalFire
Ben Davenport
CTO & Co-founder of BitGo; former Co-founder of Beluga at SignalFire
Bill MacCartney
AI Fund Fellow at AI Fund
Bobby Lent
Managing Partner at Hillsven & Co-founder of Ariba at SignalFire
Brad Hoover
former CEO of Grammarly at SignalFire

Network9

Max LevchinScout
Co-founder of PayPal; founder, chairman & CEO of Affirm; partner at SciFi VC
Adam D'AngeloScout
Angel
Jeremy StoppelmanScout
Investor at Yelp.com
Michael StoppelmanScout
Venture Advisor at Verissimo Ventures
RossScout
Investor at Dig Ventures Management Limited
Aditya Agarwal
Partner at South Park Commons
Ilya Kirnos
Partner & CTO at SignalFire
Ruchi Sanghvi
Partner and Founding Member at South Park Commons
Shishir Mehrotra
Angel investor

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Ellen Salisbury?
Ellen Salisbury is Managing Director of Start Smart Labs, an incubator focused on startups building data-intensive applications on Hadoop. She previously served as Vice President of Business Operations at Altiscale and as Vice President of Engineering at Yahoo!. She earned a BA in Humanities from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago.
Where does Ellen Salisbury work?
Ellen Salisbury is Managing Director of Start Smart Labs; Former VP BizOps at Altiscale & VP Eng at Yahoo at SignalFire.
What companies has Ellen Salisbury invested in?
Investments tracked here include Goldbridge, PlanetScale.
Where did Ellen Salisbury go to school?
Ellen Salisbury studied at University of Minnesota (BA, Humanities); Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago (MBA coursework, General Business).

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