Rowan Trollope Explained

Rowan Trollope
Birth Date:1972
Birth Place:Canada
Occupation:CEO, Five9 inc.
Boards:Disruptive Technologies
Spouse:Stephanie Trollope
Children:3

Rowan Trollope (born 1972) is an American business executive and technology entrepreneur. He is the former CEO of Five9, a publicly traded cloud software company whom Zoom announced their intent to acquire in July 2021[1] [2] The deal was terminated by mutual agreement on September 30, 2021. [3]

Career

Trollope joined Five9 as CEO in May 2018.[4] Since joining, Five9 has expanded its market cap to more than $5.4billion, as of June 2023.[5]

In 2019, Trollope joined Neat.no as an advisor and early investor alongside Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom and OJ Winge.[6]

Prior to Five9, Trollope was a senior vice president in Cisco's applications division.[7] [8] Products produced in Trollope's teams include collaboration software, telepresence hardware devices and cloud infrastructure, including WebEx Teams (formerly Cisco Spark), Cisco TelePresence, Cisco UC Manager, Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise and Cisco WebEx.[9] [10]

Prior to joining Cisco, Trollope was the group president of the SMB and the Symantec.cloud business unit where he led Symantec's sales, marketing and product development teams in the small and midsized business (SMB) segment as well as Symantec.cloud, the company's software-as-a-service (SaaS) business.[11]

Trollope announced his resignation from Five9 on October 10, 2022, effective November 28, 2022, to take an opportunity as CEO Redis Inc., a privately held pre-IPO company outside the CCaaS space that Five9 plays in.[12] [13] [14]

Personal life

Trollope lives in the Russian Hill neighborhood of San Francisco with his wife and three children.[15]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Five9 Appoints Industry Veteran Rowan Trollope as New CEO. 2018-05-01. https://web.archive.org/web/20180626054448if_/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/five9-appoints-industry-veteran-rowan-201000180.html. 2018-06-26.
  2. Web site: Five9, Inc. 8-K May. 1, 2018 4:14 PM. Seeking Alpha. en-US. 2019-02-22.
  3. Web site: Peters. Jay. 2021-09-30. Zoom won't buy Five9 after all. 2021-10-01. The Verge. en.
  4. Web site: Cisco loses top executive to cloud startup. 1 July 2018.
  5. Web site: Five9 (FIVN) - Market capitalization. 2021-06-22. companiesmarketcap.com. en-us.
  6. Web site: Norwegian Video Trailblazers Create Neat to Change the Game with Zoom. 13 December 2019.
  7. Web site: Cisco's Rowan Trollope: Interview with New Collaboration Chief. 13 December 2016.
  8. Web site: Cisco reorg consolidates IoE, cloud ops. 10 September 2015. 13 December 2016.
  9. Web site: Cisco's Rowan Trollope Makes 'Spark' Fly. 2015-11-19. Insight for the Connected Enterprise. en. 2019-02-22.
  10. Web site: Meet the Canadian Cisco called on to lead a big product makeover Financial Post. Desk. FP Tech. Cio. 2014-12-03. en-CA. 2019-02-22.
  11. Web site: About:Rowan Trollope. Techonomy.
  12. Web site: Five9 Says Mike Burkland Returns As CEO After Rowan Trollope Resigns .
  13. Web site: Five9's CEO Resigns. The Software Stock Is Sinking.
  14. Web site: Redis Names Former Five9 CEO to Head Database Startup.
  15. Web site: Fresh Approach. C Magazine. 2019-02-22.