Simon Ho

Biography

Simon Ho is responsible for many important aspects of Saama’s business, including supporting the corporate agenda, practice areas and their sales strategies, leading the financial planning and analysis function, managing liquidity, fundraising efforts, and developing scalable financial strategies. He also oversees finance operations, managing relationships with auditors, tax consultants, attorneys and bankers, and heads up investor relations, risk management and corporate development. Simon brings a wealth of background and executive experience to the global finance function at Saama, with two decades of related financial and leadership experience with technology companies in Silicon Valley. Most recently Simon was CFO at CellMax Life (bio pharma start up), and previously held executive positions at Digital Chocolate (a gaming company funded by Sequoia Capital & Kleiner Perkins), OpenWave (mobile software), and Pinnacle Systems (video systems). Simon spent his early years at Intel and then at Sun Microsystems where he built the foundation for his career. He then moved on to McAfee to build the finance operations from the ground up. Simon holds an M.B.A. from University of Michigan in Finance and graduated with a B.A. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley.

Research Interest

Informatics