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Martín Casado is a Spanish-born American software engineer, 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

Martín Casado was born around 1976 in Cartagena, Spain.[1]He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer science[2] from Northern Arizona University in 2000.[3] Casado was a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1998 until 2003.[4] Casado earned his PhD in computer science at Stanford University in May 2007.[5]

While at Stanford, he began the development of OpenFlow,[6] an open-source protocol that enabled software-defined networking.

Career

At VMware, Casado 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.[7]

Casado left VMware and joined venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in February 2016 as its ninth general partner.[8][9][10]

Andreessen Horowitz had been one of the investors Nicira, [sic] contributing $17.7 million to the start-up venture.[11]

Awards

Casado was a 2012 recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Grace Murray Hopper Award as for helping create the Software Defined Networking movement.[12]

References

  1. ^ Linda Taaffe (December 6, 2013). "Silicon Valley 40 under 40: Martin Casado". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  2. ^ "CEIAS Dean's Advisory Board". Northern Arizona University. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
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  4. ^ "The accidental entrepreneur". Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. April 9, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
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  7. ^ "Martin Casado". VMware. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
  8. ^ Marc Andreessen (February 24, 2016). "Martin Casado". Andreessen Horowitz. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  9. ^ Alex Konrad (February 24, 2016). "Andreessen Horowitz Names Nicira and VMware Veteran Martin Casdo It's Ninth General Partner". Forbes. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
  10. ^ Darren Pauli (February 25, 2016). "NSX Daddy Martin Casado leaves VMware to become a VC: Andreessen Horowitz lures mightily influential network virtualisation figure". The Register. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  11. ^ Cite error: The named reference Bloomberg 2012 NiciraSale was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  12. ^ Virginia Gold (April 9, 2013). "Martin Casado, Award Winner" (PDF) (Press release). ACM. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 5, 2016. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
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