Anthony Bates

Mr. Anthony J.
Bates is an Independent Director at Okta, Inc., a Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Genesys Cloud Services, Inc., a Chief Executive Officer at Genesys Cloud Services Topco LLC and a Chief Executive Officer & Director at Skype Technologies SA. He is on the Board of Directors at Okta, Inc. and Tipping Point Community.
Mr. Bates was previously employed as a Vice Chairman by Social Capital Hedosophia Holdings Corp., an Independent Director by VMware, Inc., an Independent Director by eBay, Inc., an Executive VP-Business Development & Evangelism by Microsoft Corp., a President & Chief Executive Officer by Skype SARL, a Chief Executive Officer by Skype, Inc., a President & Chief Operating Officer by Intellectual Ventures LLC, a Chief Executive Officer by Skype Ltd., a SVP, GM-Enterprise, Commercial & Small Business by Cisco Systems, Inc., and a Principal by Internet MCI.
He also served on the board at Netskope, Inc., GoPro, Inc., SiriusXM Radio, Inc., Sirius XM Holdings, Inc., Big Switch Networks LLC, Amazon Digital UK Ltd., Bubbly, Inc., TokBox, Inc. and YouTube LLC.