Eric Chiu - Profile

Eric Chiu - CEO & Co-Founder of HyTrust

Eric Chiu is CEO and co-founder of HyTrust, Inc., a virtualization security company based in Mountain View, CA. He brings significant executive experience in high tech management and finance to this role. Previously serving as Vice President of Sales and Business Development at Cemaphore Systems, a leader in disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange, Chiu built these departments from the ground up, consistently delivering significant quarter-over-quarter revenue growth and putting in place key OEM partnerships. Before that, he led Business Development at MailFrontier until its successful acquisition by SonicWALL. And he led Business Development at mySimon until CNET Networks successfully acquired it. In each of these roles, Chiu was instrumental in building OEM partnerships and technology alliances and driving new product initiatives. Formerly a Venture Capitalist for Brentwood (now Redpoint) and Pinnacle, he also served in the M&A Group for Robertson, Stephens and Company. Chiu holds a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Berkeley.