Sameer Dholakia is a partner of the growth investment practice at Bessemer. Sameer joined SendGrid as CEO and board member in 2014 to accelerate the company’s growth. He led SendGrid through a successful IPO in 2017 and subsequent acquisition by leading cloud communications platform Twilio for approximately $3 billion in early 2019. Before joining SendGrid, Sameer served as group vice president and general manager of cloud platforms group for Citrix Systems, where he was responsible for the company’s rapidly growing cloud business. He joined Citrix following its acquisition of VMLogix, where he served as CEO.