Forward Networks was founded in Palo Alto, California in July 2013 by four Ph.D. graduates from Stanford University, Brandon Heller, Peyman Kazemian, Nikhil Handigol, and David Erickson.
TIMELINE
The first 5 of Forward
From academic concept to enterprise network transformation
FORWARD FOUNDERS UNITE
July 2013
David Erickson, Nikhil Handigol, Brandon Heller, and Peyman Kazemian officially register the name Forward Networks, Inc.
$11M SERIES A FUNDING
Nov 2014
Investors SV Angel, Andreessen Horowitz, and A. Capital provide early-stage funding for Forward Networks.
PALO ALTO HQ OFFICE OPENS
October 2015
Company founders and six employees set up the first Forward Networks office on California Avenue in Palo Alto, California.
NETWORKING FIELD DAY DEBUT
November 2016
David Erickson, Brandon Heller, and Behram Mistree introduce Forward Networks to the world and demonstrate the platform publicly for the first time at NFD13.
$16M SERIES B FUNDING
August 2017
Investors Threshold Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and A. Capital provide second-round funding for Forward Networks.
Leadership
Forward Networks founders, executives, and board of directors
FOUNDERS
DAVID ERICKSON
Co-founder
NIKHIL HANDIGOL
Co-founder
BRANDON HELLER
Co-founder
PEYMAN KAZEMIAN
Co-founder
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
DAVID ERICKSON
CEO
YASSER GANJISAFFAR
VP of Engineering
LISA GARVEY
VP of Marketing
BRANDON HELLER
CTO
DENIS MAYNARD
Chief Revenue Officer
TYLER OLSEN
Head of Finance
STEVE PACE
Head of HR
CHIARA REGALE
VP of Product
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
DAVID ERICKSON
Co-founder and CEO
BRANDON HELLER
Co-founder and CTO
L. WILLIAM KRAUSE
Director
JOSHUA MATHEUS
Director
ANDREAS STAVROPOULOS
Director
Forward Customers
From global financial institutions to international media distributors, the world's largest mission-critical networks depend on Forward Enterprise.
FORTUNE 50 MEDIA COMPANY
FORTUNE 50 FINANCIAL INSTITUTION
FORTUNE 50 TELECOM PROVIDER
MULTIPLE U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
FORTUNE 100 PHARMACEUTICALS COMPANY
GLOBAL 500 SERVICE PROVIDER
FORTUNE 500 COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY
FORTUNE 50 ENERGY COMPANY
The platform is truly amazing. What I can do with this is unlike anything else I have used in the past.
Forward Networks customer
FORTUNE 500 SEMICONDUCTOR COMPANY
Forward helps us clean up our network, be more consistent, and allows us to introduce automation.
Forward Networks customer
FORTUNE 100 PHARMACEUTICALS COMPANY
Before Forward, I would spend hours troubleshooting/reverse engineering a firewall issue, and now using the Forward platform, it only takes 3 minutes.
Forward Networks customer
GLOBAL 50 TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY
Customer Success Stories
Six million dollar savings, reducing reconciliation time down to minutes, and other ways that customers win with Forward
