Biography

Paul Auvil has been a non-executive member of our board of directors since July 2024 and serves on our Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. 

Mr. Auvil previously served as Chief Financial Officer of Proofpoint, Inc., an enterprise security company, from March 2007 to February 2023. From September 2006 to March 2007, Mr. Auvil was an entrepreneur-in-residence with Benchmark, a venture capital firm. From August 2002 to July 2006, Mr. Auvil served as Chief Financial Officer at VMware, Inc., a cloud-computing and virtualization company. From April 1998 to January 2002, Mr. Auvil served as Chief Financial Officer at Vitria Technology, Inc., an eBusiness platform company. Mr. Auvil held various executive positions at VLSI Technology, Inc., a semiconductor and circuit manufacturing company, from August 1988 to March 1998, including serving as the Vice President of the Internet and Secure Products Division. Mr. Auvil has served as a member of the boards of directors of Modern Treasury Corp., a fintech company, since October 2024, Chainalysis Inc., a blockchain data platform, since November 2024, and Elastic N.V. (NYSE: ESTC), a platform for search-powered solutions, since October 2023. Mr. Auvil previously served as a member of the boards of directors of 1Life Healthcare, Inc. (doing business as One Medical), a primary care organization acquired by Amazon.com, Inc., Quantum Corporation, a data storage company, Marin Software Incorporated, a cloud-based advertisement management platform company, and OpenTV Corp., a provider of interactive television software and services. 

Mr. Auvil holds an M.M. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Dartmouth College.