Avon is the Global Chief Digital Officer at Sequoia Capital and Co-Founder of Manifest, a Sequoia-incubated enterprise AI company. Before joining Sequoia Capital, Avon was the first CIO at Rubrik and spent more than eight years at VMware running business technologies. His current interests center on leveraging AI to drive user productivity and modernize core infrastructure and security operations. He was named a Computerworld Premier 100 Technology Leader.