Issac is an experienced Founder/CEO having created and sold multiple enterprise software companies. He created Red Hat OpenShift, IBM’s API Management offering and CA’s integrated End-to-End APM product. He was Founder/CEO of Makara (acquired: RHAT) and StrongLoop (acquired: IBM.) As a venture partner, he was involved in Shasta's investments in Scalyr (acquired: SentinelOne), Apteligent (acquired: VMware), Hasty.ai (acquired: CloudFactory), Ascend.io, Beautiful.ai, and currently helps Shasta with investments in Lightup, CodeFresh, Outerbounds, Anzen, LeakSignal, Voxel51 and several others. 

Prior to Shasta his angel investments include CircleCI, Reciprocity Labs, Cloudability (acquired: APTI), Trigger.io (Acquired: SQ), Iodine (Acquired: GDRX), Medal NLP (Acquired: Ciox Health), Cloud9 (Acquired: AMZN), and he is an advisor to Switchboard Software, SkyGiraffe (Acquired: NOW), Luminix and Metabase.

Issac was part of the early Wily Technology team whose alumni founded New Relic and AppDynamics and was a networking software engineer at Cisco Systems. His degree is from Stanford University in Multimedia Design & Technology.