Executive Management

Sanjit Biswas is the CEO and co-founder of Samsara, which allows businesses that depend on physical operations to harness IoT (Internet of Things) data to develop actionable business insights and improve their operations. He co-founded the company with the mission to increase the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of the operations that power the global economy. 

Prior to Samsara, Sanjit was the CEO and co-founder of Meraki, one of the most successful networking companies of the past decade. Sanjit has been recognized as an MIT Technology Review “Innovator Under 35” honoree, a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum, Glassdoor’s 2018 Top CEO, one of Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, and one of The Software Report’s top 50 SaaS CEOs. Sanjit holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford and an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

John is responsible for Samsara's disruptive technology that makes operating thousands of sensors simple and secure. Prior to co-founding Samsara, John co-founded Meraki, where he was CTO and VP of Engineering. At Meraki, he built a cloud-based platform combining analytics, big data, and security that transformed how customers deployed and managed enterprise networks.

Starting Meraki out of his Ph.D. research at MIT, John and his team built integrated hardware, software, and cloud-based infrastructure that fueled continued 100% annual sales growth. Meraki's platform scaled to connect millions of network devices across over 140 countries. After Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion, John led Meraki as Cisco's fastest-growing cloud product.

John holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University and an S.M. in Computer Science from MIT.

Dominic is the EVP, Chief Financial Officer at Samsara and leads worldwide financial operations, including financial planning and analysis, accounting, procurement, tax, treasury, corporate development, investor relations, legal, IT, and real estate. Previously, Dominic was VP of Finance and Head of Corporate Development at ServiceNow where he led several finance functions, including financial planning and analysis, investor relations, treasury, and corporate development. Prior to ServiceNow, Dominic was a VP on Morgan Stanley's technology investment banking team where he advised technology companies on a wide range of transformational financings and strategic transactions.

Dominic holds a B.S. in Business from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, an MBA from UC Berkeley, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Ben brings over 15 years of experience to Samsara, where he is responsible for hardware design and operations. Before Samsara, Ben was VP of Hardware Engineering and Operations at Meraki, where he led the development of over 40 unique hardware products. Working with the industry's top semiconductor companies, Ben created a nimble development and supply chain operation that enabled Meraki to rapidly bring new products to market and scale to ship hundreds of thousands of units globally. Prior to Meraki, Ben was a key member of Apple's hardware team, where he managed notebook launches and iPod supply chains. Ben has also developed PVD and CVD semiconductor equipment at Applied Materials.

Ben has an S.B. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from Stanford.

Kiren is responsible for Samsara's product strategy, positioning, and outbound marketing. A proven technology leader, Kiren's broad experience ranges from product development to communications and go-to-market strategy. Prior to Samsara, Kiren was VP of Marketing at Meraki, where he was responsible for product marketing, brand, communications, and demand generation. Kiren was the first to bring modern, web-oriented marketing to enterprise networking, and developed innovative programs that sourced over half of Meraki's sales. Kiren's engineering-oriented business approach comes from his time as a technical leader at high-growth startups. Kiren holds patents for his work in network protocol design at Apple.

Kiren has a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford.

Jeffrey leads Samsara’s global product organization where he oversees the company’s platform, product vision, and development activities to help customers improve the safety, efficiency, and sustainability of their physical operations. With over 25 years of experience, he brings a proven track record for scaling large and transformative software companies.

Prior to Samsara, Jeffrey led ServiceNow’s Operations Management Portfolio as Senior Vice President and General Manager. Previously, he held senior executive positions at McAfee, Symantec, Hewlett-Packard, and Veritas, and has served as a CEO and COO for privately held companies.

Earlier in his career, Jeffrey worked as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies as part of Booz & Co.

Jeffrey received his MBA at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business and holds a bachelor’s degree in math and economics from Claremont McKenna College.

Andy brings 20 years of sales experience to Samsara, where he is responsible for leading the team that brings Samsara's solutions to market. Previously, Andy was VP of Worldwide Sales at Meraki, and continued as VP of Sales for the global Meraki business after the company's acquisition by Cisco Systems. Over an eight year span, Andy led Meraki's sales growth from less than $10 million per year to over $1 billion. Prior to Meraki, Andy held various sales and channel leadership positions with Nokia’s network security business, leading up to a sale to Check Point.

Andy has a B.A. from University California at Irvine, and a MBA and doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University. His doctoral research was on measuring productivity in mobile workforces.

Andrew is Samsara’s Chief Accounting Officer and leads our accounting functions. Before joining Samsara in May 2022, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of VMware, Inc., leading the company’s accounting functions from December 2019 to May 2022. Andrew previously served as the Vice President and Corporate Controller of VMware from April 2016 to December 2019. Before joining VMware, he held multiple controller and accounting positions of increasing responsibility at Applied Materials, Inc., last serving as Vice President, Global Accounting Controller. Andrew began his career in public accounting and last served as an audit manager at Deloitte & Touche. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration & Accounting from California State University Fresno and is a certified public accountant (inactive) in California.

Sarah is the chief marketing officer of Samsara, overseeing go-to-market strategy, brand building and lead generation in support of Samsara’s strategic plan.

Prior to Samsara, Sarah spent more than 12 years at Salesforce, most recently serving as executive vice president of CRM and cross-product marketing where she was responsible for the marketing for Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, and also ran a cross-product marketing team that led C-Suite solution marketing, product naming, release marketing and launch marketing. Sarah has run marketing for Service Cloud since 2013, helping to scale the business into Salesforce’s largest product line. In 2020, she also led the launch of Salesforce’s Work.com solution and Vaccine Cloud. Through her tenure at Salesforce, she has run EMEA product marketing team, industries marketing and SMB product marketing.

Before Salesforce, Sarah worked in strategy consulting at McKinsey & Co., M&A finance at Jefferies Broadview and in economic development at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Wellesley College and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Stephen is the CIO at Samsara. He oversees all aspects of the company’s Information Technology including, business applications, data & analytics, information security, IT service management, and all core IT services.

Before joining Samsara, Stephen was the CIO at Slack, and then previously the Vice President IT, Enterprise Applications at Workday. He also held positions at Cisco in a range of e-commerce, employee services and IT roles.

Stephen has a track record of creating best in class IT organizations that focus on automation engineering and enabling companies to scale and remain agile as they grow.

He earned his bachelor of science, with honors, in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Robert leads Customer Outcomes at Samsara and is responsible for enabling customers to get the most value from its products through effective implementation, training, and ongoing engagement. In his prior role as Director of Business Operations, Robert enabled the scaling of Samsara by leading sales productivity, market entry, and operational efficiency initiatives as well as building the Business Operations function. Before Samsara, Robert was an Associate Partner with McKinsey & Company where he led over 25 growth, efficiency, and organization building initiatives for global organizations.

Robert holds a B.S. in Economics from Yale and an MBA from Wharton.

Dave is the CISO at Samsara, leading security focus areas including threat intelligence, vulnerability management, security engineering and operations, and incident management. Previously, Dave served as senior vice president, Security Integration, driving the information security strategy across all Salesforce business units and new acquisitions. Prior to Salesforce, he spent 17 years at Microsoft, where he was head of Windows Security and Platform Integrity. He was also a Navy submarine officer. Dave holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington and an MBA from Marymount University.

Steve Pickle joins Samsara from Salesforce, where he was Executive Vice President of Global People Strategy and Operations. He served in that role from 2018 to 2022. Pickle was Salesforce’s Interim Chief People Officer in 2019, helping to oversee Salesforce’s $15B acquisition of Tableau. Before that, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Salesforce’s Enterprise Business Unit, the Head of Cloud Sales in the Americas, and as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales Strategy and Global Pipeline. Prior to Salesforce, he served as Vice President of Strategy and Operations at VMware from 2011-2012. Pickle graduated from Grinnell College, and holds a M.Sc from The London School of Economics and Political Science and a MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.

Adam leads the legal team at Samsara. The legal team consists of mission-focused individuals who work collaboratively across Samsara to help drive business value. Adam has grown and scaled the legal team from its beginning to have a deep understanding of Samsara's business and legal needs so that the company can rapidly grow while being sufficiently safeguarded.

Prior to joining Samsara, Adam was at Palantir Technologies for six years where he helped to grow and manage their legal group across several critical practice areas, including litigation, transactional, and intellectual property. Before his time at Palantir, Adam was an attorney with the firms of Morrison and Foerster and Weil Gotshal. Adam also clerked on the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

He received his J.D. from Stanford Law School and his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University.

With 25 years of experience in building and scaling companies across multiple markets and product categories, Philip serves as VP EMEA at Samsara where he is responsible for the EMEA operations. Previously, Philip served as SVP, GM of EMEA at ServiceNow where he successfully grew EMEA revenue from $250 million to over $1 billion. Prior to ServiceNow, Philip served as the VP of Sales / Theater Lead for the EMEA region at Commvault and held a number of leadership roles at Data Domain/EMC. Earlier in his career, he was country manager for the Benelux region, and later for Western Europe and Africa at Decru, a NetApp company.

Philip holds an MBA from Bradford University.