Legal News

Infoblox Inc., the leader in cloud-first DNS management and security, announces the appointment of veteran SaaS legal executive Wei Chen as Executive Vice President and General Counsel. Reporting to CEO Jesper Andersen, Chen will lead the global legal team to strengthen the company’s compliance, risk management, and governance programs for the next phase of growth.

“We’re delighted to add Wei to the executive team,” said Jesper Andersen, CEO and President of Infoblox. “Our cloud-first networking and security businesses are booming as organizations around the world extend their IT infrastructure beyond corporate campuses. This shift to hybrid work continues to open up new opportunities for our team to help our customers and partners thrive. Wei’s deep legal expertise in the enterprise SaaS industry will be invaluable as we scale up our business to meet increasing customer needs.”

“I’m excited to join Infoblox at this pivotal moment,” said Chen. “I am deeply committed to Infoblox’s mission of keeping businesses connected and secure in the hybrid work world. I look forward to working with Jesper and the entire organization to drive growth, delight our customers and maintain the highest standards of integrity, corporate governance and compliance.”

Chen brings over 20 years of legal experience scaling operations, strengthening compliance, building strong teams and championing innovations. She joins Infoblox from Salesforce, where she served as Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Strategic Transactions. Over her 12-year tenure with Salesforce, Wei built the company’s legal function in M&A, venture investment, real estate and other strategic transactions. Prior to Salesforce, she served as Assistant General Counsel at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and was a corporate associate at Cooley LLP and Skadden.

Databricks, the Data and AI company and pioneer of the data lakehouse paradigm, today announced the appointment of Trâm Phi as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. In this role, Phi will pull from her decades of experience scaling high-growth companies, both public and private, to lead and grow the legal function at Databricks. She will join the company’s executive leadership team.

“Trâm’s depth of experience and focus on operational excellence in scaling impactful legal and regulatory functions across enterprise software is critical to our continued success as a company,” said Ali Ghodsi, CEO and Co-Founder of Databricks. “Her leadership and expertise across both public and private markets will prove invaluable to Databricks in a time of high-growth and transition. We are excited to welcome Trâm to the company and look forward to having her as an important member of our executive team.”

Phi joins Databricks from DocuSign, where she most recently served as SVP, General Counsel helping to scale the legal function and leading the transition of DocuSign to a mature public company. Prior to DocuSign, Phi was the Chief Legal Officer and Chief of Staff at Imperva for nearly eight years and was the Vice President, General Counsel of ArcSight, leading each of the cyber security software providers’ legal teams as they navigated the transition from private to public markets. She has led an impressive range of strategic transactions in these prior roles.

“The innovative spirit at Databricks is inspiring and I am thrilled to be joining a pioneering company that’s addressing the challenges and opportunities stemming from the proliferation of data,” said Phi. “Being part of this team as we help our customers harness data in a meaningful way – not only for businesses but for the world around us – is the opportunity of a lifetime and I look forward to what lies ahead.”

SaaS Unicorn Infoblox Appoints Wei Chen as General Counsel

Databricks Appoints Trâm Phi as Senior Vice President and General Counsel