
Meet our leadership
Samsara prides itself not only on award-winning technology, but also on the talent of its people. The company is thriving under the guidance and leadership of some of the brightest minds.

Sanjit Biswas
CEO & Co-Founder

Sanjit Biswas
CEO & Co-Founder
Sanjit Biswas is the CEO and co-founder of Samsara, which allows businesses that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) 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. The Samsara Connected Operations Cloud, a leading system of record for physical operations, supports tens of thousands of customers. Samsara has been recognized as one of BuiltIn's 2023 US Best Places to Work, one of Deloitte's 2022 North America Technology Fast 500 fastest-growing companies, and as the IoT Analytics Company of the Year in the 2022 IoT Breakthrough Awards.
Prior to Samsara, Sanjit was the CEO and co-founder of Meraki, one of the most successful networking companies of the past decade. Sanjit grew Meraki from his Ph.D. research into a complete enterprise networking portfolio, with cloud-based management that revolutionized the deployment of large networks. Meraki's sales doubled every year from inception, earning the company tens of thousands of customers. In 2012, Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion. Under his leadership, Cisco Meraki continued to grow at over 100%, making it one of Cisco's fastest-growing product lines in history.
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. He has received many awards for academic research in computer networking and is an investor in several startups. Sanjit holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford and an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He lives in the Bay area with his family.

John Bicket
CTO & Co-Founder

John Bicket
CTO & Co-Founder
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.

Lara Caimi
President of Worldwide Field Operations

Lara Caimi
President of Worldwide Field Operations
Lara brings nearly 25 years of experience to Samsara, where she is responsible for leading Sales and Customer Outcomes. Before Samsara, Lara was Chief Customer and Partner Officer for ServiceNow, overseeing nearly 2,500 global employees across organizations including customer success, professional services, and channel ecosystem. Previously, she served as ServiceNow’s Chief Strategy Officer. Before joining ServiceNow, Lara was a partner at Bain & Company, where she advised technology companies on growth and go-to-market strategy.
Lara holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and English Literature from St. Olaf College, a MIB from the University of Sydney as a Fulbright Scholar, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Dominic Phillips
Chief Financial Officer

Dominic Phillips
Chief Financial Officer
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.

Kiren Sekar
Chief Strategy Officer

Kiren Sekar
Chief Strategy Officer
Kiren Sekar is Samsara’s Chief Strategy Officer, responsible for company strategy and long-term product roadmap. Previously, Kiren was Chief Product Officer, leading the Product organization from founding through Samsara’s IPO, and also led Marketing at Samsara from founding until 2021.
Prior to joining Samsara, Kiren was VP of Marketing at Meraki (now part of Cisco Systems), where he helped grow the business from $5M to over $500M in annual revenue. Prior to that, Kiren held software engineering and management positions at various startups and at Apple, and holds patents for network protocol design from his work there.
Kiren has a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford.

Ben Calderon
CTO, Hardware & Operations

Ben Calderon
CTO, Hardware & Operations
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.

Sarah Patterson
Chief Marketing Officer

Sarah Patterson
Chief Marketing Officer
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.

Jeffrey Hausman
Chief Product Officer

Jeffrey Hausman
Chief Product Officer

Adam Eltoukhy
Chief Legal Officer

Adam Eltoukhy
Chief Legal Officer

Steve Pickle
Chief People Officer

Steve Pickle
Chief People Officer
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.

Robert Stobaugh
Chief Customer Officer

Robert Stobaugh
Chief Customer Officer
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.

Stephen Franchetti
Chief Information Officer

Stephen Franchetti
Chief Information Officer
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.

Andy McCall
Senior Advisor to the CEO

Andy McCall
Senior Advisor to the CEO
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.

Dave Bossio
Chief Information Security Officer

Dave Bossio
Chief Information Security Officer

Philip van der Wilt
SVP EMEA

Philip van der Wilt
SVP EMEA
With 25 years of experience in building and scaling companies across multiple markets and product categories, Philip serves as SVP 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.

Andrew Munk
Chief Accounting Officer

Andrew Munk
Chief Accounting Officer

Sanjit Biswas
CEO & Co-Founder

Sanjit Biswas
CEO & Co-Founder
Sanjit Biswas is the CEO and co-founder of Samsara, which allows businesses that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) 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. The Samsara Connected Operations Cloud, a leading system of record for physical operations, supports tens of thousands of customers. Samsara has been recognized as one of BuiltIn's 2023 US Best Places to Work, one of Deloitte's 2022 North America Technology Fast 500 fastest-growing companies, and as the IoT Analytics Company of the Year in the 2022 IoT Breakthrough Awards.
Prior to Samsara, Sanjit was the CEO and co-founder of Meraki, one of the most successful networking companies of the past decade. Sanjit grew Meraki from his Ph.D. research into a complete enterprise networking portfolio, with cloud-based management that revolutionized the deployment of large networks. Meraki's sales doubled every year from inception, earning the company tens of thousands of customers. In 2012, Cisco acquired Meraki for $1.2 billion. Under his leadership, Cisco Meraki continued to grow at over 100%, making it one of Cisco's fastest-growing product lines in history.
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. He has received many awards for academic research in computer networking and is an investor in several startups. Sanjit holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford and an S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. He lives in the Bay area with his family.

John Bicket
CTO & Co-Founder

John Bicket
CTO & Co-Founder
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.

Marc Andreessen
Founding Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Marc Andreessen
Founding Partner, Andreessen Horowitz

Hemant Taneja
Managing Director, General Catalyst

Hemant Taneja
Managing Director, General Catalyst

Sue Wagner
Former Co-Founder and COO, BlackRock

Sue Wagner
Former Co-Founder and COO, BlackRock

Jonathan Chadwick
Former CFO, VMWare

Jonathan Chadwick
Former CFO, VMWare

Sue Bostrom
Former CMO, Cisco Systems

Sue Bostrom
Former CMO, Cisco Systems

Ann Livermore
Former Executive Vice President, HP Enterprise

Ann Livermore
Former Executive Vice President, HP Enterprise

Todd Bluedorn
Former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Lennox International

Todd Bluedorn
Former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Lennox International