Executive Management
David Young: CEO, Founder
David founded Joyent in 2004 to provide a comprehensive suite of internet-delivered software and on-demand infrastructure for small to medium organizations. Prior to Joyent, David worked at Moody’s Investor Service (1989-1999) in the Structured Finance, International, and Digital Media groups as General Manager and corporate Vice President and was co-founder and CTO of manageStar (2000-2004), an enterprise services management software company whose customers included TimeWarner, Sodexho, and Global Signal. David was the principal architect of manageStar’s Harmony platform for service delivery and managed a team of 80+ developers in San Francisco and Bangalore, India. David holds a BA in Classics (Greek), cum laude, from Indiana University. He lives in the Joyent lifestyle in Marin County with his wife Maria and their two daughters.
Jason Hoffman: CTO, Founder
Jason is the founder and CTO at Joyent, where he is responsible for overseeing the engineering, operations and product groups’ development and implementation of Joyent’s Cloud Computing technology. He is also responsible for research and advanced development, technical outreach, evangelism, consultative efforts for partners and business units, and manages Joyent’s intellectual property portfolio including involvement in open source projects, licensing, technology transfer, assessments of potential partnerships, mergers and acquisitions. His specialties include bioinformatics, grid computing, cloud computing, distributed systems, collaborative applications and deploying and scaling web applications.
Jason earned a BS and MS in Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA and a PhD in Molecular Pathology at The Burnham Institute and UCSD School of Medicine. Jason taught at the university level for more than a decade, is a prolific speaker and author and a highly-regarded expert on scalable systems. He serves as the Outside Director of the WordPress Foundation, frequently blogs at Joyeur, and most often can be found on Twitter when not flying across an ocean in an aisle seat. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and daughter.
Heidi Mackintosh: CFO
Heidi, appointed CFO in May 2011, brings 19 years of broad industry experience in financial management to her position handling all financial, HR and IT activities at Joyent. Prior to Joyent, Heidi served 3 years as CFO for Lyris Inc., an on-demand integrated marketing provider. Preceding that, she was Vice President and Corporate Controller at Benefitstreet Inc., an online provider of financial and benefits management services; Corporate Controller at Osisoft Inc., a performance management software company; and has held various senior financial positions at Apple Computer, Polycom, and PeopleSoft. A Certified Public Accountant, she holds a bachelor’s in Business Administration from California State University, Hayward. Heidi lives in Danville with her husband Randy and their two children.
Brian Brown: EVP, Corporate Development
Brian Brown is Joyent’s EVP, Corporate Development. He helped David found and finance the company in 2004, remaining on the board since then, and rejoined the company full-time in 2009. Previously, he co-founded and was CSO at Sub-One, a clean energy technology company backed by General Electric and Chevron Technology Ventures. He also co-founded and was Chairman and COO of manageStar, an enterprise services software company. Prior to startups, Brian served as a deputy editor with the Wall Street Journal in Europe. He has a BA from Vassar College, an MPhil from Cambridge University, JD from the McGeorge School of Law, and was a member of the New York and DC bars.
Chris Arisian: EVP, Worldwide Sales and Business Development
Chris Arisian leads Joyent’s worldwide commercial operations, where he is responsible for all sales, partner and business development activities. Chris has held a variety of leadership roles in sales and alliances, including Senior Vice President of Sales at Exodus Communications. Prior to Exodus, Chris spent nine years at Oracle Corporation, where he last held the position of Vice President of Service Sales. Chris holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Lisa Petrucci: VP, Marketing
Lisa Petrucci leads Joyent’s worldwide marketing, which includes all marketing programs for the Joyent Cloud, and channel marketing initiatives associated with Joyent’s suite of software offerings. Lisa has held various leadership roles in channels, sales and marketing, including Vice President of Social Media Solutions at Six Apart (now Say Media) and Vice President of Channel Sales and Marketing at Folio Corporation, a division of Reed Elsevier. Lisa started her career at IBM and received a BA from Columbia University.
