Jay Fulcher

Jay Fulcher successful track record as CEO includes leading both public and private technology companies. Jay is Chairman & CEO at Zenefits, a leading cloud HCM, Payroll and Benefits platform serving more than 11,000 small and mid-sized (SMB) companies.

Previously, Jay was CEO of Ooyala, an online video company that helped shape the personalized cloud TV market. During Jay's tenure as CEO, Ooyala came to serve hundreds of customers in more than 30 countries including media heavyweights including ESPN, Bloomberg, Caracol, DirecTV, News Corp, Netflix, Sky, Univision, Pac-12 Network, RTL, Times of India and FOXTEL. Ooyala was acquired by Telstra in 2014.

Prior to Ooyala, Jay was CEO of Agile Software (Nasdaq: AGIL), a public company that pioneered the product lifecycle management (PLM) enterprise software category. Agile had a successful IPO in 1999 and subsequent secondary offering before ultimately being acquired by Oracle in 2007. At the time of its acquisition more than 11,000 customers globally used Agile as a catalyst technology for the distributed engineering and manufacturing era.

Jay is an experienced CEO, board member, investor and advisor and has helped start and scale many successful companies in B2B enterprise software, media, education, retail, sports and healthcare. In addition to his CEO roles, Jay has held senior executive roles at PeopleSoft (President, EVP), Red Pepper Software (SVP) and SAP (VP). Jay has a proven and extensive track record of delivering great returns for shareholders and for leading high growth, high performance, high value businesses.

Jay currently serves on the boards of Zenefits, AirPR and Splice Machine. Jay is a member of the Global Leadership Council for the San Jose State University Lucas Graduate School and College of Business and is an advisor to several startups, VC/PE firms, and investment banks.