About CloudBees

Anuj Kapur joined CloudBees as president and CEO in August 2022. He brings extensive experience in product management, go-to-market strategy, and alliances within the enterprise technology sector.

Anuj previously was president of corporate development and strategy at SAP after joining from Cisco, where he was chief strategy officer. In that role he led Cisco’s partnerships with AWS, Google, and Apple. He also held various executive roles, including in product management within Cisco’s Security Group.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the Wharton School. He serves as an advisor to several technology startups in the U.S. and Israel, and is on the President’s International Advisory Board of the University of Waterloo. Raised in India, Kenya, and Canada, Anuj now resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is a connoisseur of both coffee and Seinfeld.

François Déchery is co-founder of CloudBees and unified platform executive sponsor. François has previously held executive positions at companies such as KPMG, Sun Microsystems, and Mapics (now known as Infor). In 2005, he joined JBoss to launch its services and support businesses in Europe. After Red Hat acquired JBoss, François managed worldwide support for JBoss and launched Red Hat’s global partner support program for the Linux and JBoss businesses. It was during his years at JBoss/Red Hat that he met Sacha Labourey—and the rest is history!

François has a Master of Science in business administration and information systems from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Clermont and a post-graduate degree in management of information systems from the Institut Francais de Gestion in Paris. He is based in New York.

As chief product officer at CloudBees, Shawn Ahmed embodies the nexus of product engineering and marketing. With a firm hand on the reins of the CloudBees product portfolio, Shawn meticulously crafts product and solutions delivery, pricing, strategic planning, competitive landscape analysis, and market management. Shawn masterminded a transformative shift, evolving the company’s culture and operations into a buyer-centric, value-focused DevOps leader.

Prior to CloudBees, Shawn left his mark at industry giants like Splunk and SAP, where he also held senior product roles. He is a two-time CEO, including at Pivotus which he brought to a successful acquisition before joining CloudBees. An alumnus of the prestigious executive management program at UCLA, Shawn resides in Southern California with his wife and three children. His strategic foresight and relentless drive are instrumental in pivoting the CloudBees product suite into a software delivery platform, made to address the demanding needs of enterprises.

Philippe Van Hove is Chief Revenue Officer at CloudBees, where he leads the company’s global revenue strategy and go-to-market execution.

Prior to CloudBees, Philippe served as Chief Revenue Officer at Shippeo, where he drove sustained double-digit growth in a high-growth SaaS environment. Over more than 25 years, he has built and scaled revenue organizations within high-growth, playbook-driven enterprise and SaaS companies including Zuora, Lacework, Workday, BMC Software, and PTC.

He is widely recognized for designing predictable, playbook-driven go-to-market models and building high-performing global teams in complex markets.

Raj Sarkar serves as chief marketing officer, driving global marketing strategy and execution, and extending market awareness for CloudBees. Prior to CloudBees, he was CMO at 1Password, a 2023 Forbes Cloud 100 company, and CMO at Prisma Cloud, Palo Alto Networks' cloud security platform.

Raj also spent six years at Atlassian as the head of marketing, overseeing cloud products like Trello, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Jira Work Management. Earlier in his career, he played foundational roles in product marketing at both Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.

Raj holds an MBA in marketing and corporate strategy from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Science degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Jadavpur University. In 2022, Forbes recognized him as one of the top 50 CMOs in The Forbes Entrepreneurial CMO List.

Yehji Yi joined CloudBees in September 2024 to build and lead the global HR business partner function and now serves as VP, Global HR. She is a solutions-driven people and culture leader with over 18 years of strategic HR leadership in global, high-growth technology organizations, known for scaling teams, strengthening talent pipelines, and driving transformational change across complex, matrixed environments.

Prior to CloudBees, Yehji built and led global HRBP teams across Twilio and OpenTable, partnering with C-suite leaders to support rapid workforce expansion, driving revenue. Yehji holds a B.A. in Sociology from UC Berkeley and an M.S. in Human Resources Management from Golden Gate University. She resides in the Bay Area with her family.