Fugue, a VC-backed local software startup that's developing an infrastructure-level operating system for managing cloud-based workloads, is adding to its board of directors and its board of advisors.
The company announced Thursday that John Morris and Will Dunbar will join its board of directors and Frank Slootman will join the board of advisors.
Founded in 2013, Fugue ensures that public and private sector companies are policy compliant and validates the systems as they are being built. The company continuously enforces policies once the systems are complete.
Fugue, which has raised $74.8M to date, is headquartered in Frederick, Maryland, with offices in D.C., Seattle, Miami and Atlanta. The company’s additions to its board of directors and advisory board come as the company plans to expand its team.
“The additions to our board of directors and our advisory board are really centered around who is the next great software company, said Co-founder and CEO of Fugue Josh Stella. “We want to surround ourselves with people that have built similar things in the past that can contribute to the trajectory that we’re on.”
Morris is the former president and CEO of Cleversafe, a Chicago-based software company providing clients with a large-scale content repository, backup, archive, collaboration and storage-as-a-service offerings. Under Morris' leadership, Cleversafe was acquired by IBM for $1.3 billion in 2015.
Dunbar is the co-founder of Core Capital Partners and Managing Directors. He focuses on investments in enterprise-related SaaS and internet technology companies and currently serves on the boards of a number of early-stage companies.
Stella also said that Morris and Dunbar’s operations experience made them perfect for Fugue’s board of directors.
“We wanted to bring more experienced operators to the board,” said Stella. “We have great investors, board members and board directors, but needed to add more strength in that category.”
Slootman, Fugue’s newest addition to its advisory board, is the former CEO with ServiceNow, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based enterprise cloud software company that went public in 2012. Slootman was with ServiceNow from 2011 to 2017.
“These are folks who don’t take these positions lightly,” said Stella. “I know they are excited about what Fugue is going to do in the short term and in the long term.”
