Rowan Trollope

Rowan Trollope
Born1972
Canada
Occupation(s)CEO, Redis[1]
Board member ofSmartsheet,[2] Disruptive Technologies

Rowan Trollope (born 1972) is an American business executive and technology entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Redis,[1] an American database software company, and the former CEO of Five9, a publicly traded cloud software company whom Zoom announced their intent to acquire in July 2021[3][4] The deal was terminated by mutual agreement on September 30, 2021. [5]

Career

Trollope joined Five9 as CEO in May 2018.[6] Since joining, Five9 has expanded its market cap to more than $5.4 billion, as of June 2023.[7]

In 2019, Trollope joined Neat.no as an advisor and early investor alongside Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom and OJ Winge.[8]

Prior to Five9, Trollope was a senior vice president in Cisco's applications division.[9][10] Products produced in Trollope's teams include collaboration software, telepresence hardware devices and cloud infrastructure, including WebEx Teams (formerly Cisco Spark), Cisco TelePresence, Cisco UC Manager, Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise and Cisco WebEx.[11][12]

Prior to joining Cisco, Trollope was the group president of the SMB and the Symantec.cloud business unit where he led Symantec's sales, marketing and product development teams in the small and midsized business (SMB) segment as well as Symantec.cloud, the company's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business.[13]

Trollope announced his resignation from Five9 on October 10, 2022, effective November 28, 2022,[14][15] to take an opportunity as CEO Redis,[1] a privately held pre-IPO company outside the CCaaS space that Five9 plays in.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Redis Names Former Five9 CEO to Head Database Startup". WSJ. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  2. ^ "Smartsheet Appoints Rowan Trollope to Board of Directors". SmartSheet. Retrieved 23 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Five9 Appoints Industry Veteran Rowan Trollope as New CEO". Archived from the original on 26 June 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
  4. ^ "Five9, Inc. 8-K May. 1, 2018 4:14 PM". Seeking Alpha. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  5. ^ Peters, Jay (30 September 2021). "Zoom won't buy Five9 after all". The Verge. Retrieved 1 October 2021.
  6. ^ "Cisco loses top executive to cloud startup". Retrieved 1 July 2018.
  7. ^ "Five9 (FIVN) - Market capitalization". companiesmarketcap.com. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
  8. ^ "Norwegian Video Trailblazers Create Neat to Change the Game with Zoom". Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  9. ^ "Cisco's Rowan Trollope: Interview with New Collaboration Chief". Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  10. ^ "Cisco reorg consolidates IoE, cloud ops". 10 September 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  11. ^ "Cisco's Rowan Trollope Makes 'Spark' Fly". Insight for the Connected Enterprise. 19 November 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  12. ^ Desk, FP Tech; Cio (3 December 2014). "Meet the Canadian Cisco called on to lead a big product makeover | Financial Post". Retrieved 22 February 2019. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  13. ^ "About:Rowan Trollope". Techonomy.
  14. ^ "Five9 Says Mike Burkland Returns As CEO After Rowan Trollope Resigns".
  15. ^ "Five9's CEO Resigns. The Software Stock Is Sinking".