Who we are
Billions of people connect to work, school, entertainment, healthcare, and are able to stay informed because of our technology. But we’re not stopping there.
We’re pushing the boundaries of what you can do with DNS
We could've stopped at building superior DNS services. Instead, we've innovated in a space that has been stagnant for decades. We leverage the power of DNS to understand, automate, and secure digital interactions across your network.
What this looks like in practice
We're for the innovators. Companies using NS1’s Managed DNS solution take control of the future of their businesses so they can win in the connected economy of today and tomorrow.
Meet the team redefining the internet
We're led by a team with decades of internet infrastructure experience, and backed by investors like Dell, Cisco, and Salesforce
Our Leadership Team
Board Members
Investors
Kris Beevers
Kris Beevers leads NS1’s team of industry experts as they create products to enable companies to use DNS to build and deliver dynamic, distributed, and automated applications that delight users. Kris is a recognized authority on DNS and global application delivery, and often speaks and writes about building and deploying high performance, at scale, globally distributed internet infrastructure. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from RPI, and prior to founding and leading NS1, he built CDN, cloud, bare metal, and other infrastructure products at Voxel, which sold to Internap (NASDAQ:INAP) in 2011.
Alex Vayl
Prior to founding NS1, Alex served as Regional Manager (AsiaPAC) for Voxel through its acquisition by Internap (NASDAQ:INAP) in 2011. While with Voxel, Alex built a regional sales team on a limited budget and grew Voxel’s presence in the Asia Pacific market into a major revenue generator. Alex received his B.B.A. degree in International Business from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College.
Jonathan Sullivan
Jonathan Sullivan has more than a decade of experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining mission-critical, distributed IT solutions across colocation, bare metal, cloud, and CDN for companies ranging from dot com startups to Fortune 1000 enterprises. Prior to NS1's founding, Jonathan led the New York Managed Hosting Operations team for Voxel from 2006 through its acquisition by Internap (NASDAQ:INAP) in 2011. At Internap, he led the Hosting Business Unit and Sales Engineering organizations’ evolution to become a key competitor in modern hosting and hybrid cloud ecosystems. He studied Computer Science at RPI.
David Coffey
As the Chief Product Officer at NS1, David Coffey focuses on developing product strategy and at-scale execution. He is a technological innovator, team builder, and transformational leader who brings more than two decades of experience in software engineering, product management, security operations, and applied data science to the company.
Prior to joining NS1, Coffey served as senior vice president of Global Engineering for Forcepoint, where he led research and development, spearheading the release of new products and revenue streams. Coffey also planned and executed cloud transformations and revolutionized product capabilities of global tech firms such as McAfee and Intel. At Intel, he served as Head of Cloud Platform Engineering and Operations where he led teams responsible for building massively scalable cloud security services, including cloud-to-cloud integrations, supporting hundreds of millions of devices.
Ryan Davis
Ryan Davis is Chief Information Security Officer at NS1. He is responsible for ensuring the security of the critical infrastructure that NS1 provides to hundreds of customers worldwide. Davis has more than 15 years of experience in information technology and security in various industries.
Prior to NS1, Davis was the CISO/CIO at Veracode, a software security company aiding thousands of global organizations to discover vulnerabilities in their applications. He was responsible for global IT Operations, Security/Threat Management, and Risk/Compliance.
Previous to Veracode, Davis supported a number of different Department of Defense customers at MIT Lincoln Laboratory within several Information Assurance roles. Davis earned a bachelor’s degree in Information Security and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Networking from Champlain College.
In his spare time, Davis enjoys time with family, tinkering in his garage and a variety of outdoor activities.
Lorraine Heber-Brause
As the CHRO, Global Head of People at NS1, Lorraine Heber-Brause leads the people operations and employee growth strategy. Lorraine is an experienced human resources and global people operations executive with a proven track record of leading organizations through rapid growth and transformation. Her focus and expertise spans organizational development, coaching, training, employee engagement, culture and diversity and inclusion programs.
Prior to joining NS1, Lorraine led People functions at Yotpo and AppNexus, and reaching back in her career, she held HR Relationship Leader roles at BlackRock, American Express and Citi.
Lorraine holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from SUNY and a Master's in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of New Haven.
Andy Hershey
Andy Hershey is the Chief Revenue Officer at NS1. He is responsible for the overall growth of the company while creating a robust vision for new and current revenue streams. Prior to NS1, Andy worked at Splunk for more than 10 years as Group Vice President, Global Cloud Sales; GTM Transformation. Andy grew his team to be the driving force behind the rapid growth of the Splunk Cloud (SaaS) business.
Andy has more than 25 years of experience in sales and sales leadership roles. Andy spent 10 years in various sales leadership roles at OPNET Technologies (which has since been acquired by Riverbed). He was also the founder and VP of Sales for a start-up, and holds a B.A. in Economics from Drew University.
Salil Jani
Salil joined NS1 from NMM Law, where he was a partner leading the firm's venture tech and emerging companies practice. In that role, he acted as general counsel to numerous technology companies, advising and leading them through securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transaction. Prior to that he was part of the Capital Markets practice at Clifford Chance where he advised companies on IPOs, private placements and structured finance transactions. He holds a B.S. in Finance from Seton Hall University and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.
Kim Kaminski
Kim Kaminski has more than 30 years of global technology marketing and operational leadership experience. She joins NS1 from Amplitude, where she was Vice President, Global Marketing. Previously, Kim was a Vice President in Marketing at ServiceNow, where she held a variety of leadership roles throughout her four-year tenure with the company. Earlier, Kim led global Marketing teams at TmaxSoft, Infogix and Vision Solutions. She also spent 11 years at CA Technologies. Kim’s broad expertise spans brand management, go-to-market strategy, product and portfolio marketing, demand creation, digital marketing, and field and partner marketing. She has a B.A. in Journalism/Advertising from Northern Illinois University and a graduate certificate in eCommerce from Benedictine University. Her passion is aligning Marketing, Sales, and Product to accelerate business growth.
Reggie Best
As VP of Product, Reggie leads overall product strategy at NS1. Reggie brings more than three decades of experience in telecom, enterprise networking, security and software.
Prior to joining NS1, Reggie led the Federal, Managed Service Provider, network discovery, and security businesses at FireMon. Reggie arrived at FireMon via the acquisition of Lumeta Corporation in 2018. Reggie had served as Chief Product Officer of Lumeta, which he joined in 2013 as part of a turn-around management team. Prior to Lumeta, Reggie held executive level product positions at ProtonMedia, a SaaS enterprise collaboration start-up and AEP Networks, a network security start-up.
Earlier in his career, Reggie co-founded three start-ups with successful exits: Netilla Networks (acquired by AEP), AccessWorks (acquired by 3Com), and Teleos Communications (acquired by Madge Networks).
Reggie began his career at Bell Laboratories where he was a design engineer creating products for the telephone network and AT&T business communications services. He holds a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and Bachelors of Electrical Engineering from City College of New York.
Reggie is a longstanding Member of the IEEE and has received five US patents. While he has spent a lot of time traveling the US and the globe on business, Reggie considers himself a native New Yorker. He now lives in New Jersey and is married with three adult children. He enjoys cooking, jogging, gardening, photography and just spending time at the beach – especially in the Caribbean - when time permits.
Kathleen Foreman
Kathleen Foreman comes to NS1 with more than two decades of experience in bringing predictability and repeatability to organizations by implementing adaptable Program Management and Software Development methodologies.
As the Sr Director of Technical Program Management, Kathleen’s focus is to elevate Program Management to drive the strategic objectives of the organization, and introduce processes that continue to improve NS1’s ability to deliver best in class products and services efficiently and effectively.
Prior to NS1, Kathleen led Business Operations and Program Management teams dedicated to providing critical operational data analysis, process development, and program management expertise at IBM, Landis+Gyr, Secureworks, and Forcepoint. Kathleen holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia where she still lives with her husband, Scott, and daughter, Amelia.
Emily Nerland
Emily Nerland joins NS1 from Masergy, where, as Managing Director for EMEA, she was responsible for growing the region through direct and indirect channels by leading the go-to-market team to deliver on the value proposition of the organization. She was appointed to this role after having built the partner community as the Director of Channel at Masergy. Prior to this, she held a number of roles at TalkTalk Business, culminating in her appointment as account director for international carriers. Emily holds an MBA in marketing from University of Georgia - Terry College of Business, an M.A. in journalism from University of Southern California and a B.A. in psychology at Dartmouth College.
Shannon Weyrick
A veteran of internet infrastructure for over 20 years, Shannon is an accomplished technical architect, developer, and leader. His experience encompasses both development and operations of globally distributed platforms. A regular open source contributor, he has led and worked on a wide range of infrastructure projects, from high performance servers to novel programming languages and runtimes. He enjoys writing and speaking at industry conferences, and has previously worked at Internap and F5 Networks.
David Aronoff
David’s investment focus includes Infrastructure, SaaS, IoT and Cyber Security. He his investments include Apiary (acquired by Oracle), BetterCloud, Bitsight, Crashlytics (acquired by Twitter), Immedia (acquired by Amazon), JouleX (acquired by Cisco), Minim, NS1 and Valimail.
Prior to joining Flybridge in June 2005, David spent nearly a decade focusing on early-stage investing at Greylock Partners and before that, held senior technology and management roles at Chipcom, a, enterprise network software and equipment vendor. While working full-time on his MBA, David was co-founder and COO of HappyPuppy. Earlier in his career he held technical positions at Bell Labs where he developed secure network software.
David currently serves on the Board of Directors for Draper, on the Advisory Board of the Global Cyber Institute and is a member of the Board of Trustees for The University of Vermont.
David holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Vermont, cum laude and with college honors, an MS in Computer Engineering from the University of Southern California, and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.
Kris Beevers
Kris Beevers leads NS1’s team of industry experts as they create products to enable companies to use DNS to build and deliver dynamic, distributed, and automated applications that delight users. Kris is a recognized authority on DNS and global application delivery, and often speaks and writes about building and deploying high performance, at scale, globally distributed internet infrastructure. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from RPI, and prior to founding and leading NS1, he built CDN, cloud, bare metal, and other infrastructure products at Voxel, which sold to Internap (NASDAQ:INAP) in 2011.
Marge Breya
Marge is the Chief Marketing Officer at Leadspace. Her expertise as a software industry Chief Operating Officer, General Manager and CMO, and board veteran spans more than 25 years in some of the world’s best-known software companies. Marge previously served as Senior Executive Vice President and CMO for MicroStrategy. Prior to this role, she was COO at Ionic Security, a privately-held provider of data protection and control software. Before moving to Ionic Security, Ms. Breya was EVP and CMO at Informatica Corporation. Prior to that, she was SVP of Marketing Services at HP, EVP and GM of Solutions Management at SAP, GM/CMO at Business Objects, CMO/Chief Strategy Officer at BEA Systems, and SVP of Marketing at Sun Microsystems. She has also held public company board positions at LSC Communications, Jive Software, and Document Sciences Corporation.
CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING DIRECTOR, SIGMA PRIME VENTURES
Paul Flanagan
As President and CEO of Nasuni, Paul is responsible for all aspects of Nasuni’s global operations. He is focused on building a world-class team of innovators whose common goal is to leverage the cloud to reinvent enterprise file storage services.
Paul has a wealth of experience building and leading high growth companies. As an operating executive, he has raised over a billion dollars of financing and has taken two companies from start-up to IPO with capitalizations over $1 billion. Paul has served as CEO at Rave Mobile Safety and StorageNetworks (IPO: Nasdaq), CFO at VistaPrint, now Cimpress (IPO: Nasdaq), and VP of Finance at Lasertron (Acquired: Corning) and Vitol Gas and Electric (Acquired: Coral Energy).
Paul has also spent 12 years as co-founder and managing director at Sigma Prime Ventures and as a managing director at Sigma Partners, where he led investments in Wordstream (Acquired: Gannett) , Bionx (acquired: Ottoboch), ReThink Robotics, High Street Partners (acquired: HG Capital/Nair), Contently, and NS1. Paul is also a founding investor and board member for Nasuni.
Tyler Jewell
Tyler Jewell is Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital. Tyler's responsibilities include sourcing, leading and managing investments in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and serverless architecture.
Prior to joining Dell Technologies, Tyler was CEO of WSO2, the largest open source integration provider, and founder / CEO of Codenvy (acquired by Red Hat). While operating as a CEO, Tyler was also an angel and partner at Toba Capital where he lead $100M in DevOps investments including Cloudant (acquired by IBM), Sauce Labs, Sourcegraph, InfoQ, and ZeroTurnaround (acquired by Roguewave).
Before Toba Capital, Tyler spent 15 years in product leadership roles at Oracle (Oracle Cloud), Quest Software (Foglight, Spotlight, JProbe, Performasure acquired by Dell Technologies), MySQL (acquired by Oracle), Veritas (TheServerSide.com acquired by TechTarget), and BEA (WebLogic acquired by Oracle). He has more than 50 publications and the author of 3 books on Java.
Tyler holds a BS in computer science from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. He is based in Palo Alto, California.
Glenn Solomon
Glenn joined GGV Capital in 2006 as a Managing Partner and focuses on enterprise/cloud and infrastructure investments. He led GGV's investments in Pandora (NYSE: P), Zendesk (NYSE: ZEN), Square (NYSE: SQ), SuccessFactors (NYSE: SFSF/Acquired by SAP), Isilon (NASDAQ: ISLN/Acquired by EMC), Quinstreet (NASDAQ: QNST), Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL), Domo (NASDAQ: DOMO), Slack (NYSE: WORK), Airbnb, AlienVault (Acquired by AT&T), BitSight Technologies, Coder, Conviva, HashiCorp, Kong, New Knowledge, NS1, Nozomi Networks, Opendoor, Restless Bandit, Unravel Data, Synack, Tray.io, VDOO and Zebrium, helping the first nine successfully navigate the initial public offering process.
Prior to GGV, Glenn was a General Partner with Partech International, where he led the firm’s software investment efforts. Earlier in his career, Glenn worked with Goldman Sachs and also with SPO Partners, a San Francisco-based private investment partnership.
Glenn graduated from Stanford University, where he started on three NCAA championship tennis teams, and also earned an M.B.A from Stanford where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Glenn co-founded and remains active with The Spotlight Foundation, which funds social entrepreneurs addressing the educational needs of at-risk youth.
Jonathan Sullivan
Jonathan Sullivan has more than a decade of experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining mission-critical, distributed IT solutions across colocation, bare metal, cloud, and CDN for companies ranging from dot com startups to Fortune 1000 enterprises. Prior to NS1's founding, Jonathan led the New York Managed Hosting Operations team for Voxel from 2006 through its acquisition by Internap (NASDAQ:INAP) in 2011. At Internap, he led the Hosting Business Unit and Sales Engineering organizations’ evolution to become a key competitor in modern hosting and hybrid cloud ecosystems. He studied Computer Science at RPI.
Jack Young
Jack is a Partner and the Head of Venture Capital at Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners. He serves as a Board Member / Observer at: Aryaka, NS1, Paxata and Skorpios on behalf of DTCP.
Prior to joining DTCP, he was the Managing Director of Qualcomm Ventures North America and General Partner at dRx Capital – a joint Novartis and Qualcomm investment company. He made investments in: Airstrip, AliveCor, Doctor On Demand, goBalto, Jana, Omada, Visage and Welltok. His exits included: ClearCare (acquired by Battery), Telcare (Acquired by BioTelemetry), Validity (acquired by Synaptics), and Fitbit (NYSE: FIT).
Earlier in his career, he held leadership positions at ZTE (USA), Nokia, 3Com, GDC, and Nortel. Jack earned a MSEE from University of Calgary and a MBA from McGill University.
Shawn Cherian
Mr. Cherian has over a decade of experience in the enterprise technology sector in various capacities, including investment banking, corporate development, and investing. Prior to joining EIP, Mr. Cherian spent five years at Third Point as a Venture Principle investing in private companies across enterprise infrastructure and software. Prior to joining Third Point, Mr. Cherian worked in Cisco’s Corporate Development Group on M&A and investing across several business units including Service Provider Networking, Service Provider Mobility and Collaboration. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Cherian worked in investment banking at Merrill Lynch in the firm’s Global Technology Group. Mr. Cherian has a degree in Government from Cornell University.
