Ross Brown

AI Infrastructure | GTM & Partnerships at Scale | Founder, Product Leader | Ex-Microsoft Partner Exec, Oracle/OCI Services Product Marketing and Partner

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2024
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Board Member
Mar 2024
EmployPlan is a skill management and career development platform that helps ensure the right resource is allocated to the right task, every time. By tracking each person’s skills through their delivery of work, our system builds team slates and assigns projects more effectively, planning tailored training pathways, and align professional growth with company needs and objectives. Real-time analytics show skill distribution, training progress, and engagement levels, helping teams detect gaps and adapt quickly. Key features include: - Advanced skill matching to pair employees with the tasks that best fit their abilities - Automated tracking of experiences and skill development - Integrations with popular project management tools to unify workflows and leverage the task and time project infrastructure you already love - Intuitive onboarding, goal tracking, and our intuitive Chessboard make seeing the entire team and risks to delivery make a great experience - Real-time analytics that provide a clear overview of workforce capabilities EmployPlan strengthens individual careers and organizational agility. With clear pathways for personal growth and data-driven staffing decisions, teams can overcome new challenges and create a workplace where everyone thrives. To check our free trial with demo data or to trial with your team, go to www.employplan.com and get started.
Board Member
Jul 2019
Simetric, the next-generation insights and management platform for your IoT ecosystem – in a single pane. Flexible, dynamic, scalable – quickly configure Simetric to support your unique business needs. It’s time to take control of IoT. In 2017, the Simetric team recognized an underlying need in the IoT industry- the lack of fundamental support and expertise in IoT cellular connectivity management. The existing connectivity platforms deployed by operators were built with a proprietary focus impeding any company’s ability to effectively manage their IoT instances across operators. With the initial focus of many IoT efforts being largely automation, the limitations of competing IoT platforms were not fully recognized. At the forefront of Simetric’s original vision was the customer. We created a new platform that encompassed a unified management pane that established for a company - of any size and any type - to centrally manage all connectivity needs. In 2019, the company looked broader at the what the next phase of IoT could become to unify connectivity and device performance to enable companies to not only unify non-conforming IoT platforms but also to move IoT business process execution to the device effortlessly across all the operators’ IoT platforms. We then enlisted proven executives from Microsoft, Cisco, and Verizon to further accelerate our thought leadership that unified the strengths of the cloud with the network and efforts of operators. With the global IoT market scaling into billions of cellular connections and the next horizon of needs-driven heavily by 5G and autonomous driving, companies will need an IoT platform that is highly extensible and analytical for them to evolve their businesses with these technology advancements. Simetric’s comprehensive ability to unify connectivity and device management is quickly being positioned at the forefront of modern IoT efforts. positioning them to take advantage of 5G.
Investor/Advisor
Nov 2013
Private Investment Firm with advisory services.
Investor
Mar 2013
Structure Wines crafts bold, expressive wines that reflect the rugged beauty of Washington’s Red Mountain and Columbia Valley. Each bottle captures a balance of power and elegance, with deep reds that reward both patience and the palate and expressive whites that capture the essence of summer. The tasting room offers a relaxed, intimate space where guests can explore these handcrafted wines. For true enthusiasts, the club provides early access to limited releases, curated selections, and a front-row seat to the evolution of each vintage. Locations: Seattle SODO - 3849 1ST AVE S, Seattle Tacoma - 632 St Helens Ave Tacoma
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2024
Board Member
Mar 2024
EmployPlan is a skill management and career development platform that helps ensure the right resource is allocated to the right task, every time. By tracking each person’s skills through their delivery of work, our system builds team slates and assigns projects more effectively, planning tailored training pathways, and align professional growth with company needs and objectives. Real-time analytics show skill distribution, training progress, and engagement levels, helping teams detect gaps and adapt quickly. Key features include: - Advanced skill matching to pair employees with the tasks that best fit their abilities - Automated tracking of experiences and skill development - Integrations with popular project management tools to unify workflows and leverage the task and time project infrastructure you already love - Intuitive onboarding, goal tracking, and our intuitive Chessboard make seeing the entire team and risks to delivery make a great experience - Real-time analytics that provide a clear overview of workforce capabilities EmployPlan strengthens individual careers and organizational agility. With clear pathways for personal growth and data-driven staffing decisions, teams can overcome new challenges and create a workplace where everyone thrives. To check our free trial with demo data or to trial with your team, go to www.employplan.com and get started.
2021
Senior Vice President, Cloud Partner Ecosystem, NA
Dec 2021
Oracle is a global leader in AI, delivering the cloud infrastructure, data, and applications that organizations across the world trust to successfully achieve business outcomes at scale. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides fast, flexible, scalable AI infrastructure. With superior compute performance and network design, a comprehensive choice of AI services for developing and orchestrating agentic AI workflows at scale, and unrivaled data control, security, privacy, and governance, OCI is designed for AI workloads. It also gives customers the flexibility to run their workloads wherever they need by supporting public cloud, multicloud, hybrid cloud, sovereign, and on-premises deployments. The Oracle AI Database is the only database with AI natively built in everywhere. By bringing AI to where data lives, the Oracle AI Database delivers enterprise-grade AI securely, cost-effectively, and at scale. In-database machine learning and vector search enable AI models to run where data resides. Support for multi-modal data (structured, unstructured, graph, vector) enables richer AI use cases. The Oracle AI Data Platform enables organizations to build, deploy, and govern AI agents and applications on top of private, secure, and distributed enterprise data. This enables organizations to operationalize AI without compromising data security or control. Oracle Applications embed AI directly into business workflows and industry processes to ensure AI is delivered in context, where work happens. They include the only applications suite that brings AI to every aspect of a business, with AI-powered ERP, HCM, and CX applications, and the Oracle Health Suite which provides applications for managing the entire healthcare ecosystem. Oracle also provides industry-specific cloud application suites for more than two dozen industries and NetSuite, the world’s first cloud computing company. This LinkedIn page serves as Oracle’s official global company page.
2019
Board Member
Jul 2019
Simetric, the next-generation insights and management platform for your IoT ecosystem – in a single pane. Flexible, dynamic, scalable – quickly configure Simetric to support your unique business needs. It’s time to take control of IoT. In 2017, the Simetric team recognized an underlying need in the IoT industry- the lack of fundamental support and expertise in IoT cellular connectivity management. The existing connectivity platforms deployed by operators were built with a proprietary focus impeding any company’s ability to effectively manage their IoT instances across operators. With the initial focus of many IoT efforts being largely automation, the limitations of competing IoT platforms were not fully recognized. At the forefront of Simetric’s original vision was the customer. We created a new platform that encompassed a unified management pane that established for a company - of any size and any type - to centrally manage all connectivity needs. In 2019, the company looked broader at the what the next phase of IoT could become to unify connectivity and device performance to enable companies to not only unify non-conforming IoT platforms but also to move IoT business process execution to the device effortlessly across all the operators’ IoT platforms. We then enlisted proven executives from Microsoft, Cisco, and Verizon to further accelerate our thought leadership that unified the strengths of the cloud with the network and efforts of operators. With the global IoT market scaling into billions of cellular connections and the next horizon of needs-driven heavily by 5G and autonomous driving, companies will need an IoT platform that is highly extensible and analytical for them to evolve their businesses with these technology advancements. Simetric’s comprehensive ability to unify connectivity and device management is quickly being positioned at the forefront of modern IoT efforts. positioning them to take advantage of 5G.
2015
Senior Vice President, WW Partners and Alliances
Aug 2015
Broadcoms VMware software manages cloud complexity so customers can modernize infrastructure, accelerate app development, and protect workloads, wherever these reside. Our flagship cloud solutions provide the security and performance of private cloud combined with the scale and agility of public cloud. Modern app, edge infrastructure, and private AI products extend these capabilities, while security and disaster recovery help ensure that customers’ operations continue uninterrupted. From the data center to the cloud and apps to the edge, we help enterprises around the globe become more innovative, connected, resilient and secure.
2013
Investor/Advisor
Nov 2013
Private Investment Firm with advisory services.
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