Management Team

Ivan Koon, Chief Executive Officer

Ivan Koon joined YouSendIt in May 2006.

A proven and passionate business executive with over 20 years of experience, Ivan has built YouSendIt into the Web’s largest business content collaboration solution. Under his leadership, YouSendIt has aggressively expanded its B2B collaboration platform and increased its registered user base from zero to over 23 million around the world.

Prior to joining YouSendIt, Ivan was SVP at Adobe, where he managed the Acrobat and Enterprise LiveCycle Document Services Business Unit. Previously, he served as Division President of BEA System and was responsible for WebLogic Commerce and Integration Business. Ivan was also the President and COO of S2 Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Stratus Computer, where he was responsible for enterprise application systems including Payment, HealthCare, and Trading solutions.

Ivan holds a BS in Math/Computer Science from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Renee Budig, Chief Financial Officer

Renee Budig manages YouSendIt’s financial, human resources, facilities, and administrative functions.

During her 25-plus year career, Renee has held multiple executive level positions. Prior to joining YouSendIt, Renee was vice president of finance at Netflix. Her responsibilities included all aspects of accounting and reporting, treasury, and tax. She successfully raised $200 million in public debt offering for Netflix in addition to rebuilding the company’s finance team.

Before Netflix, Renee held several vice president roles at VERITAS Software. As vice president of investor relations, she developed a strategic investor relations program and was the primary point of contact with the financial community. Her role later expanded to include treasury responsibilities where she created and implemented a profitable investment portfolio strategy that resulted in increased yields on a $2 billion cash and investment portfolio. Renee then became vice president of finance, worldwide sales where she managed a global staff of 65 employees. When VERITAS merged with Symantec, she played a vital role in communicating the merger to the financial community.

Prior to VERITAS, Renee was the vice president of finance at Quantum Corporation where she was responsible for investor relations and overseeing the company’s worldwide treasury initiatives.

In addition to her tenure with Quantum Corporation, Renee held various related positions with Murdock & Associates, Price Waterhouse and Alexander Grant.

In 2011, Renee was recognized by the Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal as one of the most influential women in the Bay Area.

Stanford Au, Chief Technology Officer

Stanford Au is the Chief Technology Officer of YouSendIt. Stanford is responsible for engineering, operations, IT, and technology strategy.

For more than 28 years, Stanford has held executive and senior engineering positions with leading technology companies, including Skinit, Shutterfly, Webex, Virage, KIVA, Netscape, Apple Computer, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett Packard.

Prior to YouSendIt, Stanford was chief technology officer at Skinit. He developed the company’s business and technology strategy for the personalization market for consumers and enterprises. Previously, Stanford was senior vice president of technology at Shutterfly, where he was responsible for the company’s technology strategy and execution. Prior to Shutterfly, Stanford was vice president of Product at WebEx, where he was responsible for engineering, product management, and product marketing for the company’s five product lines. Prior to WebEx, he was a vice president and general manager at AOL/Netscape, where he ran the Internet Bill Presentment and Payment business unit, and was responsible for engineering, product management, product marketing, partnerships, and sales and training

Stanford received his BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from U.C. Berkeley, CA.

Brian Curry, Chief Product Officer

Brian Curry is responsible for new market penetration, key partnership development, and product strategy at YouSendIt.

Brian brings 15 years of experience to the position and most recently was vice president of corporate partnerships at Yahoo!, where he oversaw the business unit that operates Tier 1 partnerships. While at Yahoo!, Curry managed partnerships with Comcast, EBay, Walmart, Turner Broadcasting and Adobe among others.

Prior to his tenure at Yahoo!, Brian was a vice president of AOL’s Premium and Subscription Services unit, where he was responsible for AOL businesses involving licensed access to the AOL network, integration of AOL services in third-party products, and development of subscription services. In this capacity, Brian created and operated strategic relationships with Microsoft, IBM, Reuters, and WebEx to name a few.

Before joining AOL Premium Services, Brian was part of the AOL Instant Messaging unit where he managed AIM Network licensing and was a member of the AOL Strategic Development team. He joined AOL through its 1999 acquisition of Netscape Communications where he managed the Design Center practice for Netscape Professional Services.

Brian taught advanced design and information architecture at the University of Illinois before joining Netscape, and participated in Web-related research at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

He holds both Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Design and Technology from the University of Illinois.

Sean Jacobsohn, Vice President, Worldwide Alliances

Sean Jacobsohn is vice president of worldwide alliances at YouSendIt. He is responsible for growing revenue through global partnerships.

Sean has been an alliances and sales executive in the technology-enabled business services space since 1999. Prior to YouSendIt, he was VP of Channel Management at Cornerstone OnDemand, a human capital management software-as-a-service provider, which had an IPO in March 2011. Sean helped grow the company from $7 million to $72 million in revenue and 300,000 subscribers to over six million, the second most of any software-as-a-service company in the world.

Before his tenure at Cornerstone OnDemand, Sean was VP Sales and Partner Development at WageWorks, a leading provider of consumer-directed spending solutions, which filed an S-1 for a proposed IPO in April 2011 and grew from $3 million to $82 million in revenue during his tenure.

Prior to WageWorks, Sean was a senior manager at Elance, the world’s largest marketplace of contractors. He has also held finance positions at Major League Baseball and The Prudential Realty Group.

Jacobsohn has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA in Marketing, Finance, and International Business from University of Wisconsin.

Bobby Jaffari, Vice President, Sales

Bobby Jaffari is responsible for the company’s go-to-market, Enterprise sales strategy and driving customer acquisition activities globally.

With more than 15 years of experience in sales leadership and business development roles, Bobby has been recognized as a results-oriented leader in SaaS, WebTouch, Web 2.0, and Internet technology.

Prior to YouSendIt, Bobby spent 10+ years in key leadership roles at WebEx leading high-performing teams and contributed to the overall success of WebEx until it was acquired by Cisco for $3.2B in 2007. Most recently, as Director of Sales, he led multiple teams to exceed performance expectations and contribute to the growth of the WebEx business to $800M in annual revenue.

Bobby earned his B.S. from San Jose State University.

Ranjith Kumaran, Founder

Ranjith Kumaran is the founder of YouSendIt.

Prior to YouSendIt, Kumaran held marketing positions at Verisity Design, a key provider of verification process automation (VPA) solutions, where he managed product marketing for the software tools of Axis Systems. Previously, he was the director of sales engineering at Celoxica, a leading provider of C-based design and behavioral synthesis solutions, where he built the company’s sales engineering team. Kumaran also was a software systems engineer at Red Hat, one of the largest and most recognized companies dedicated to open-source software and the largest distributor of the GNU/Linux operating system.

Kumaran received a bachelor of engineering degree in computer engineering from McGill University and is an active member of TiE Silicon Valley. Kumaran is also a C100 charter member, an organization representing the top 100 accomplished Canadian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.