Steven Mih

Seasoned Operator skilled at fostering innovation and driving GTM from zero to 100s of customers, leading to $100m+ revenue while building great teams and culture. I am a driven entrepreneur and executive with strong technical understanding of core technology areas in Business Intelligence, Databases, Data Infrastructure, Machine Learning, Security, Networking, and Public Cloud. Highly experienced with open-source software development, business models, and governance. My skills are driven from hands on experience building great companies with multiple exits. I have extensive experience bringing complex technologies to market across engineering, product, marketing and sales.

Experience summary:
Ahana - co-founder/CEO - Open Data Lakehouses based on Presto - acquired by IBM in 2023
Alluxio - CEO and Board Member - Cloud Data Orchestration for ML and Big Data apps.
Aviatrix - CEO and Board Member - Software-Defined Cloud Networking pioneer. Grew first 100+ customers.
Couchbase – VP and 13th employee, driving the go-to-market, business development, and sales to become a NoSQL industry leader. As a tenured member of the executive team, established the foundation for fast and predictable growth. Contributions include securing first strategic multimillion-dollar customers, securing the first set of reference-able customers, and scaling the sales organization. Later IPO'd in 2021.
Transitive – VP and first business hire. Drove the go-to-market, business development, marketing and sales. Secured the first pilot customers and landed multimillion-dollar customers - acquired by IBM in 2008