Zack Urlocker
InvestorInvestor at Index Ventures · Board director at Brightback
Traverse City, Michigan, United States
About
Zack Urlocker is an executive in residence at Index Ventures who has held leadership roles across sales, marketing, product, engineering, and business development at software companies including Duo Security, Zendesk, MySQL, and Active Software, which collectively generated over $20 billion in shareholder returns at exit. He serves as a board member and advisor to venture-backed software companies including Cockroach Labs, Contentful, DataStax, GitLab, HackerOne, HubSpot, and PagerDuty. Urlocker shares guidance on scaling software companies through his newsletter, Build to Scale.
Board director at Brightback
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GUY MARIONExecutive Officer, Director
Experience
- Index VenturesExecutive in Residencecurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- Venture Capital Backed StartupsInterim Executive, Board Member, Coach, Advisorcurrent2017 — present
- CrescendoChief Operating Officer2024 — 2025Traverse City, Michigan, United States
- Scale Venture PartnersExecutive in Residence2024Foster City, California, United States
- NetlifyEl Presidente2023Anywhere, everywhere
- GatsbyChief Executive Officer2020 — 2023Everywhere, anywhere
- University of MichiganLecturer2017 — 2019Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Duo SecurityChief Operating Officer2014 — 2017Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Scale Venture PartnersExecutive-in-Residence2013 — 2014San Francisco Bay Area
- ZendeskChief Operating Officer2010 — 2013San Francisco, CA
- Scale Venture PartnersExecutive in Residence2010
- Sun MicrosystemsVP Lifecycle Marketing2008 — 2010
- MySQLEVP Products2003 — 2008
- M7VP Marketing2002 — 2003
- webMethods / Active SoftwareVP Marketing1999 — 2001
- BorlandVP Marketing1997 — 1999
- BorlandDirector of Product Management1990 — 1997Scotts Valley, CA
Skills & more
ManagementStrategy62Team Management6Executive DevelopmentProduct InnovationScalabilityCustomer-focused ServiceSaaS99Cloud Computing99Start-ups99Enterprise Software99Product Management85
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Product MarketingStrategic PartnershipsBusiness DevelopmentBusiness AlliancesDemand GenerationGo-to-market StrategyLead GenerationOpen SourceBusiness IntelligenceMarketingOnline MarketingBusiness StrategyLanguages French · Turbo Pascal
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Bastian Hasslinger
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Ben Sneider
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Benjy Boateng
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Zack Urlocker?
- Zack Urlocker is an executive in residence at Index Ventures who has held leadership roles across sales, marketing, product, engineering, and business development at software companies including Duo Security, Zendesk, MySQL, and Active Software, which collectively generated over $20 billion in shareholder returns at exit. He serves as a board member and advisor to venture-backed software companies including Cockroach Labs, Contentful, DataStax, GitLab, HackerOne, HubSpot, and PagerDuty. Urlocker shares guidance on scaling software companies through his newsletter, Build to Scale.
- Where does Zack Urlocker work?
- Zack Urlocker is at Index Ventures and Board director at Brightback.
- Where did Zack Urlocker go to school?
- Zack Urlocker studied at University of Waterloo (M. Math, Computer Science); Concordia University (Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science); Northwestern University (Master of Management (incomplete), Marketing).
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Also attended University of Waterloo357
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Also attended Concordia University109
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Also attended Northwestern University353
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Shared employers
Also worked at Crescendo2
Also worked at Gatsby6
Also worked at Duo Security9
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Also worked at Sun Microsystems136
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