René Bonvanie

René Bonvanie is an Executive In Residence at Battery Ventures. Previously, he was EVP Strategic Accounts at Palo Alto Networks after serving more than a decade as its first CMO. René has more than 30 years of executive management and marketing experience in enterprise technology. Before Palo Alto Networks, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing, SaaS, and IT at Serena Software, and was Senior Vice President of Global Marketing at SAP. Earlier, as CMO at Business Objects, René was responsible for all marketing activity, including corporate communications, field marketing, and product marketing. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at VERITAS Software Corporation. In his more than 10 years at Oracle, he was Vice President of Product Marketing, managed the Oracle database product line, had editorial responsibility for Oracle Magazine and Profit Magazine, and co-founded Oracle's developer program, Oracle Technology Network.