Martin Casado

Martin Casado (born June 29, 1976) Spanish-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and investor. He is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and was a pioneer of software-defined networking, and a co-founder of Nicira Networks.

Early Life and Education

Martin Casado was born in Cartagena, Spain.[1] He received his bachelor’s degree from Northern Arizona University in 2000.[2] He worked for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory doing computational science[3] followed by work with the intelligence community from 2000 to 2003.[3] Martin attended Stanford University from 2003 to 2007, earning both his Masters and PhD in computer science. While at Stanford, he began development of OpenFlow,[4] an open source protocol that enables software-defined networking. During this period, he co-founded Illuminics Systems[5] with Michael J. Freedman.[5] Illuminics Systems was acquired by Quova, Inc. in November, 2006.[5] Martin's PhD thesis, "Architectural Support for Security Management in Enterprise Networks,” was published in 2008.

Career

In 2007, Casado co-founded Nicira Networks along with Nick McKeown and Scott Shenker, a Palo Alto, California based company working on network virtualization. In July 2012, VMware acquired Nicira for $1.26 billion.[6][7] He stayed at VMware until 2016 where he was made a fellow and held the positions Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Networking and Security and General Manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit.[8]

Casado joined Andreessen Horowitz in 2016 its ninth General Partner.[9][10] Andreessen Horowitz had been one of the investors Nicira, contributing $17.7 million to the start-up venture.[7]

Industry influence

Along with Nick McKeown and Scott Shenker, Casado created the software-defined networking movement.[4] His PhD work at Stanford University led to the development of the OpenFlow protocol. Based on this work, McKeown and Shenker co-founded the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) to transfer control of OpenFlow to a not-for-profit organization.[11]

Awards

Casado was named one of Business Insider’s “50 Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech” in 2012.[12] He was featured in Silicon Valley’s Business Journal’s “Silicon Valley 40 Under 40” in 2013.[1] Casado was a 2012 recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Grace Murray Hopper Award as Outstanding Young Computer Professional of the Year for helping "create the Software Defined Networking (SDN) movement, an approach that provides a software alternative to hardware-based network components."[13]

In 2015 Casado received the NEC C&C award "For Pioneering Research in Advancing Networking Technology and Outstanding Contributions Promoting the Development of Software-Defined Networking.” [14] In 2015, he was selected for Forbes’ “Next Gen Innovators 2014.” [15]

Selected Publications

References

  1. 1 2 Linda Taaffe (December 6, 2013). "Silicon Valley 40 under 40: Martin Casado". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Roots that Matter" (Press release). NAU. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "The accidental entrepreneur". Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. April 9, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Sean Michael Kerner (April 29, 2013). "OpenFlow Inventor Martin Casdo on SDN, VMware, and Software Defined Networking Hype". Enterprise Networking Planet. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 "Illuminics Systems". CrunchBase. March 2006. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  6. ↑ Quentin Hardy (October 17, 2011). "What is Nicira up to?". Bits Blog (New York Times). Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  7. 1 2 Dina Bass and Sarah Frier (July 24, 2012). "VMware to Buy Nicira Network Software for $1.26 Billion". Bloomberg Business. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  8. ↑ "Martin Casado". VMware. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  9. ↑ Marc Andreessen (February 24, 2016). "Martin Casado". Andreessen Horowitz. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  10. ↑ Alex Konrad (February 24, 2016). "Andreessen Horowitz Names Nicira and VMware Veteran Martin Casdo Its Ninth General Partner". Forbes. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  11. ↑ Open Networking Foundation (ONF) website
  12. ↑ Julie Bort (June 22, 2012). "The 50 Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech". Business Insider. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  13. ↑ Virginia Gold (April 9, 2013). "Martin Casado, Award Winner" (PDF) (Press release). ACM. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  14. ↑ "NEC C&C Foundation Awards 2015 C&C Prize" (Press release). NEC Corporation. October 16, 2015. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  15. ↑ Roger Trapp (April 28, 2015). "Martin Casado, Cofounder of Nicira and General Manager of Networking, VMware". Retrieved March 20, 2016.
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