Sue Barsamian

About Sue Barsamian

Sue serves on the boards of several public software companies - Box, Gen Digital (formerly NortonLifeLock/Symantec) and Five9 - as well as private software companies - Gainsight and Xactly. She previously served on the boards of Segment, Auth0, Pangea and Onfido, through acquisitions by Twilio, Okta, CrowdStrike and Entrust. With 35 years of operating experience in general management, strategy, and every go-to-market function across both Fortune 50 and early/mid-stage companies, Sue helps enterprise software and cybersecurity businesses scale effectively and leverage AI to accelerate growth and disrupt markets.Sue spent a decade at Hewlett Packard across a range of executive roles including General Manager of the Cybersecurity Products business ($1B), Chief Sales and Marketing Officer for HPE Software ($3B) and SVP of the Indirect Partner business ($16B). Earlier, she was Vice President of Global Go-to-Market for high growth Mercury Interactive, SVP Marketing for Critical Path and General Manager EMEA at Verity, while based in London. She began her career at AT & T.Sue received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University and did post graduate work at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. She currently serves on the board of the KSU Foundation. She lives in Park City, UT and Menlo Park, CA with her husband and has two grown daughters.

Experience

1. Board Member

   Gainsight

   Feb 2019 — Present

   Private company

Education

• ETH Zürich

  Post Graduate Studies, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  1982 — 1983

• Kansas State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  1977 — 1981