Kyle Forster
Education
Stanford University Graduate School of Business
MBA, Business -
Stanford University
MS, Computer Science -
Princeton University
BSE, Electrical Engineering -Work Experience
RunWhen
Current
RunWhen
2020-04-01 - 2021-07-01
Big Switch Networks
2010-02-01 - 2020-02-01
Big Switch Networks
Joost
2007-01-01 - 2009-01-01
Joost
Cisco
2004-01-01 - 2007-01-01
Cisco
Microsoft
2003-01-01 - 2003-01-01
Microsoft
SapientRazorfish
1999-01-01 - 2002-01-01
SapientRazorfish
Skills
Summary
Founder/CEO of RunWhen; A platform to build Engineering Assistants that handle the keep-the-lights-on work that every engineering team would automate if they had the time. RunWhen automates repetitive operations tasks 100x faster than traditional automation. Its AI-powered search surfaces the most logical next steps in response to alerts, tickets and chat prompts. Industry benchmarks today show that the traditional “Alerts to Tickets” process costs $500-700/ticket, but with RunWhen you can expect $5-7 – 1/100th The Cost. ------------------------------------------------ Before: Senior Director at Google, Application Modernization (Kubernetes). Before: Founder of Big Switch Networks, a pioneer in Software Defined Networking, – sold to Arista in Feb 2020. Before: Product Management and Strategy at Cisco for WLAN controller products, Cisco Security Gateway for Cellular/WLAN convergence. Before: Product Management at Microsoft, Member of four person strategic planning team in a $1b / 200 person Microsoft Exchange team. I gravitate to people and products that I think have the potential for broad industry impact.
