Martin Casado
Martin Casado (born June 29, 1976)[citation needed] Spanish-born American computer scientist, entrepreneur, and investor. He is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and was a pioneer of software-defined networking, and a co-founder of Nicira Networks.
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Early Life and Education
Martin Casado was born in Cartagena, Spain.[1] He received his bachelor’s degree from Northern Arizona University in 2000.[2] He worked for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory doing computational science[3] followed by work with the intelligence community from 2000 to 2003.[3] Martin attended Stanford University from 2003 to 2007,[citation needed] earning both his Masters and PhD in computer science.[citation needed] While at Stanford, he began development of OpenFlow,[4] an open source protocol that enables software-defined networking. During this period, he co-founded Illuminics Systems[5] with Michael J. Freedman.[5] Illuminics Systems was acquired by Quova, Inc. in November, 2006.[5] Martin's PhD thesis, "Architectural Support for Security Management in Enterprise Networks,” was published in 2008.[citation needed]
Career
In 2007, Casado co-founded Nicira Networks along with Nick McKeown and Scott Shenker, a Palo Alto, California based company working on network virtualization. In July 2012, VMware acquired Nicira for $1.26 billion.[6][7] He stayed at VMware until 2016 where he was made a fellow and held the positions Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Networking and Security and General Manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit.[8]
Casado joined Andreessen Horowitz in 2016 its ninth General Partner.[9][10] Andreessen Horowitz had been one of the investors Nicira, contributing $17.7 million to the start-up venture.[7]
Industry influence
Along with Nick McKeown and Scott Shenker, Casado created the software-defined networking movement.[4] His PhD work at Stanford University led to the development of the OpenFlow protocol.[citation needed] Based on this work, McKeown and Shenker co-founded the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) to transfer control of OpenFlow to a not-for-profit organization.[11]
Awards
Casado was named one of Business Insider’s “50 Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech” in 2012.[12] He was featured in Silicon Valley’s Business Journal’s “Silicon Valley 40 Under 40” in 2013.[1] Casado was a 2012 recipient of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Grace Murray Hopper Award as Outstanding Young Computer Professional of the Year for helping "create the Software Defined Networking (SDN) movement, an approach that provides a software alternative to hardware-based network components."[13]
In 2015 Casado received the NEC C&C award "For Pioneering Research in Advancing Networking Technology and Outstanding Contributions Promoting the Development of Software-Defined Networking.” [14] In 2015, he was selected for Forbes’ “Next Gen Innovators 2014.” [15]
Selected Publications
- M. Casado, "Architectural Support for Security Management in Enterprise Networks," PhD dissertation, 2008.
References
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