Management Team

Perry Wu, CEO & Founder Perry is responsible for the strategic direction, financial performance, and team management at BitGravity. Prior to BitGravity, he was involved in the creation of Xilinx, Mpath, eWorld, Sitesmith, Alibris, and more recently Cloudshield, Enkata, Persist, and WireCache. He has been an investment professional at Accel Partners, Bedrock Capital, and most recently as a General Partner at ComVentures. Earlier in his career as an entrepreneur, Perry helped start and grow Mpath—the first peer-to-peer multiplayer game service and VoIP service—from inception to IPO. He was an early pioneer in the Internet at eWorld, where he helped architect the spinout and buyback of Apple’s Internet and EDI Services business. Prior to Apple, Perry was part of the start-up team at Xilinx, where he helped spur the adoption of field programmable gate arrays. Perry has also served in technical roles at IBM’s Almaden Research Center and Andersen Consulting. Perry is a graduate of Stanford University with a BS in Electrical Engineering and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Barrett Lyon, CTO & Founder Barrett is responsible for the strategy and direction of technology at BitGravity, as well as the engineering and technical operations. Prior to BitGravity, Barrett founded Prolexic Technologies, where he created the first successful managed service to defend enterprises from Distributed Denial of Service attacks. Prior to Prolexic, Barrett served as a senior consultant for Network Presence, where he managed engineering teams responsible for the security of Fortune 100 corporations. Barrett was also responsible for the Opte Project, often referred to as the Internet Mapping Project, and he formed AlphaLinux.org, a nonprofit organization responsible for bringing the Linux kernel into the 64-bit world of the Alpha.

Chris Turner, Vice President Worldwide Sales Chris is responsible for global sales efforts including development of worldwide channels, business development and support. Chris served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Akamai Technologies, were he managed a global team of 250 and was responsible for Akamai’s annual revenue totaling over $150m. Also at Akamai, Chris held the positions of VP of Worldwide Channel and International Sales, VP North American Sales, and Director of Alliances and Channel Sales. Chris also led worldwide sales and support at Intelliden Corporation, ran sales and business development at SkyeTek, and spent 10 years at IBM in sales and management positions working with the CEO and CIO offices, and the Internet Division Chris is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University with dual Bachelor of Arts in International Business and Political Science and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Mari Mineta Clapp, Vice President Corporate Marketing Mari is responsible for BitGravity’s global marketing, communications,and investor relations programs. Prior to BitGravity, Mari drove marketing programs and strategic relationships for early stage venture-backed technology companies including Hammerhead Systems and Avici Systems, and has worked with technology market leaders including AT&T, Philips, Tandem Computers, and TeleAtlas. Mari was VP of Corporate Relations at UB Networks, the pioneer in Ethernet LANs where she drove outbound marketing and communications. Prior to that Mari was a Market Relations Principal in the Communications Practice of Regis McKenna, Inc. the pioneer in technology marketing consulting. Mari started her career at Dentsu Young and Rubicam the year their merger created the world’s largest advertising agency. Mari is a graduate of UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies.