René Bonvanie

René Bonvanie is an Investor at Cyberstarts VC based in San Francisco, United States. He previously served as Chief Marketing Officer at Palo Alto Networks from 2009 to 2020, where he helped scale the company's annual revenue to nearly $3 billion and supported its 2012 initial public offering. Before that, he held senior executive marketing positions at major enterprise technology firms, including Oracle, SAP, and Salesforce, after initially founding a software business in the Netherlands in 1983. Transitioning to advisory and governance roles, he was appointed Chairman of the Board at Acronis in 2020, joined the board of Cyera following its $60 million Series A financing, and became an advisor to Battery Ventures. His current professional focus centers on guiding early-stage cybersecurity and cloud data startups through strategic expansion, operational scaling, and venture capital investment.