Biography


Speaker Biography


Zach Nelson
President and Chief Executive Officer
NetSuite

Mr. Nelson came to NetSuite with extensive leadership experience spanning 15 years in high-tech marketing, sales, product development and business strategy with leading companies such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Network Associates and Motorola. Mr. Nelson joined NetSuite in 2002. As a result of his leadership, NetSuite's revenues have grown five-fold; workforce has doubled; and the company has reached the 7,000-customer milestone, making NetSuite the largest application service provider in the small to medium business market.
 
Prior to NetSuite, he helped transform McAfee Associates into Network Associates, leading the company's expansion into the network management arena with the $1.4 billion acquisition of Network General. Later, as CEO of NAI subsidiary, myCIO, he created the world's first business-to-business security application services provider. Before Network Associates, Nelson was Vice President, World Wide Marketing at Oracle Corp., where he was responsible for global marketing strategy and implementation. Mr. Nelson, at 31 years old, was the youngest VP of Marketing in Oracle's history. At Sun, he drove the marketing and branding of the first version of the Solaris operating system, and led the product and corporate marketing effort at the company's SunSoft Division. Mr. Nelson holds a patent in the field of application integration, and has several others pending approval. He holds B.S. and M.A. degrees from Stanford University.
 

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