Leadership

Simon Taylor is the founder and CEO of HYCU. A serial entrepreneur, prior to HYCU, Simon led Comtrade Software, an infrastructure monitoring business, sold to Citrix. Having raised more than $140M at HYCU, Simon has more than 20 years' experience in go-to-market strategy development, product marketing and channel sales management for high-growth, tech companies. An Instituto de Empresa (Madrid) MBA graduate, he has worked with leading companies such as Comtrade Group, Forrester Research, Putnam Investments and Omgeo.

Subbiah Sundaram is the SVP, Product at HYCU. Subbiah spearheads product management, product marketing, alliances, sales engineering, and customer success with more than 20 years' experience delivering best-in-class multi-cloud data protection and on-premises solutions. A Kellogg Management School MBA graduate, Subbiah has worked with leading companies such as EMC, NetApp, Veritas, BMC, CA, and DataGravity.

Goran Garevski is the CTO at HYCU. Goran has more than 20 years' experience in engineering and technology innovation in the data protection, virtualization, and cloud industries. He leads and drives innovation within HYCU's research, engineering, and customer support organizations. Prior to HYCU, he has worked with leading and emerging companies such as StorScape and Comtrade Group.

Tanja Peric is the CPO at HYCU where she leads talent management and acquisition. She has more than 20 years' experience leading human resources and talent innovation at global companies. She is a Cotrugli Business School MBA graduate and has senior executive experience with leading companies such as Endava and Comtrade Group.

Kelly Hopping is the CMO at HYCU. Kelly is responsible for everything from brand to demand to support revenue growth. Kelly has more than 20 years’ experience with SaaS, high growth, emerging and blue-chip companies. A Harvard Business School and Texas A&M University graduate, Kelly has led global marketing initiatives for leading technology companies including Gartner, Rackspace, and AMD.

Justin Schumacher is the CFO at HYCU. Justin is responsible for financial processes and systems to support hypergrowth for HYCU. Justin has more than 20 years' experience with hypergrowth, SaaS and data protection. Prior to HYCU, he held senior fiscal management positions with companies such as JumpCloud, Uplight, Simple Energy, SolidFire, DataLogix and KPMG.

Coley Burke is the CRO of HYCU. A results-driven and power of positivity, prior to HYCU, Coley led successful sales and go-to-market efforts for Semperis, a high growth pioneer of identity driven cyber resilience solutions, and Zerto, prior to the acquisition by HPE. Coley has more than 30 year’s experience in sales, sales leadership and business development for industry leading brands like Dell EMC, Kashya, Quantum and Arrow Electronics.