Who We Are

B.J. Arun was most recently the CEO of July Systems, a 17-year-old company that having raised in excess of $75 million/ pivoted three times and needed a turn around. Since taking over as CEO in 2014,Arun was able to recapitalize the company, drastically trim costs, revitalize the team, go from a direct sales to an OEM led GTM, focus on a tight value proposition, and finally negotiate & conclude a lucrative exit for all stakeholders with Cisco in August of 2018. 

Arun also co-founded and was formerly CEO of Librato which was acquired by Solar Winds (NYSE: SWI) in January 2015. Prior to Librato, Arun founded and was CEO of California Digital and ran the company profitably since its inception in 1994. Under his leadership, California Digital deployed North America and Europe’s fastest Supercomputer ‘Thunder’ at the Lawrence Livermore National Labs in 2004. 

In addition to serving on the boards of both publicly traded and private companies, Arun has served as the Chairman of the TiE Global Board of Trustees, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals spanning 61 chapters across 14 countries. Arun was appointed to the Board of the San Francisco – Bangalore Sister City Initiative by the Mayor of San Francisco in June 2016 and continues to play a significant role in promoting trade as well as culture between the two cities.