Martin Casado Explained

Martín Casado
Birth Place:Cartagena, Spain
Education:Northern Arizona University (Bachelor's)
Stanford University (Masters, Ph.D.)
Occupation:Andreessen Horowitz, General Partner

Martín Casado is a Spanish-born American software engineer, entrepreneur, and investor. He is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, was a pioneer of software-defined networking, and was a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Nicira Networks.

Early life and education

Martín Casado was born around 1976 in Cartagena, Spain.[1] He received his bachelor's degree from Northern Arizona University in 2000.[2] In 2017, he received an honorary doctorate from the same university.[3] Casado was a researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1998 until 2003.[4] While at LLNL, he ran large-scale computer simulations for the United States Department of Defense.[5]

Casado attended Stanford University, earning both his Masters and PhD in computer science in 2007.[6] While at Stanford, he began the development of OpenFlow, an open-source protocol that enabled software-defined networking. His Ph.D. thesis, "Architectural Support for Security Management in Enterprise Networks,” under advisors Nick McKeown, Scott Shenker and Dan Boneh, was published in 2008.[7]

Career

In 2007, Casado co-founded Nicira Networks along with McKeown and Shenker, a Palo Alto, California based company working on network virtualization. Casado also served as Nicira’s chief technology officer.[8]

Along with McKeown and Shenker, Casado promoted software-defined networking.[9] His Ph.D. work at Stanford University led to the development of the OpenFlow protocol, which was promoting using the term software-defined networking (SDN).[10] McKeown and Shenker co-founded the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) in 2011 to transfer control of OpenFlow to a not-for-profit organization.[11]

In July 2012, VMware acquired Nicira for $1.26 billion.[12] [13] At VMware 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.[14]

Casado left VMware and joined venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz in February 2016 as its ninth general partner.[15] [16] [17] Andreessen Horowitz had been one of the investors Nicira, contributing $17.7 million to the start-up venture.[13]

Awards

Notes and References

  1. News: Silicon Valley 40 under 40: Martin Casado . December 6, 2013 . October 30, 2016 . Silicon Valley Business Journal . Linda Taaffe.
  2. Roots that Matter . Northern Arizona University . October 30, 2016 .
  3. Around the Town: NAU graduation Friday and Saturday . Arizona Daily Sun . May 10, 2017 .
  4. News: The accidental entrepreneur . April 9, 2015 . April 9, 2016 . Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
  5. News: Jin . Berber . A Venture Capitalist Imagines What Generative AI Will Change . 20 June 2023 . Wall Street Journal . 19 March 2023.
  6. News: Stanford names dominate Association for Computing Machinery awards . 9 June 2024 . engineering.stanford.edu . 10 April 2013 . en.
  7. Web site: Architectural Support for Security Management in Enterprise Networks . December 2007 . PhD dissertation . Stanford University . Martin Casado . October 30, 2016 .
  8. News: Clark . Kate . Andreessen Horowitz’s AI Crusader Emerges as a Confidant of the Founders . 9 June 2024 . 30 June 2023.
  9. News: OpenFlow Inventor Martin Casdo on SDN, VMware, and Software Defined Networking Hype . Enterprise Networking Planet . April 29, 2013 . March 20, 2016 . Sean Michael Kerner .
  10. News: Kim . Eugene . The guy who sold his startup for $1.26 billion to VMware just got poached by a top VC firm . 10 June 2024 . Business Insider . 25 February 2016.
  11. News: John Markoff . John Markoff . New York Times . Open Networking Foundation Pursues New Standards . March 22, 2011 . October 30, 2016 .
  12. News: What is Nicira up to? . October 17, 2011 . Quentin Hardy . New York Times . Bits Blog . March 20, 2016 .
  13. News: Bloomberg Business . July 24, 2012 . March 20, 2016 . VMware to Buy Nicira Network Software for $1.26 Billion . Dina Bass and Sarah Frier.
  14. Web site: Martin Casado . VMware . https://web.archive.org/web/20160423180927/https://www.vmware.com/company/leadership/martin-casado . April 23, 2016 . August 22, 2016 .
  15. Web site: Martin Casado . Marc Andreessen . February 24, 2016 . March 20, 2016 . Andreessen Horowitz .
  16. News: Andreessen Horowitz Names Nicira and VMware Veteran Martin Casdo Its Ninth General Partner . February 24, 2016 . March 20, 2016 . Alex Konrad . Forbes.
  17. News: NSX Daddy Martin Casado leaves VMware to become a VC: Andreessen Horowitz lures mightily influential network virtualisation figure . The Register . February 25, 2016 . Darren Pauli . October 30, 2016 .
  18. Martin Casado, Award Winner . ACM . October 30, 2016 . April 9, 2013 . Virginia Gold . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305184908/http://awards.acm.org/press_releases/tech_awards_2012.pdf . March 5, 2016 .

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