We Are NetBox Labs.
A network source of truth is critical to any network automation strategy. It gives network teams the power to tame the massive amounts of data and change they must manage every single day.
We founded NetBox Labs to simplify and accelerate the Network Automation journey, providing the Network Source of Truth platform, tooling, and expertise that enables our customers to build world-class network automation solutions quickly and at a fraction of what it would cost to do it themselves.
Leadership
Team
Kris Beevers
Kris Beevers is the CEO of NS1 and has founded and helped lead multiple successful businesses in internet and network infrastructure. Kris is an engineer at heart and by background, and loves the leverage infrastructure innovation creates to accelerate technology and empower engineers to do their best work. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from RPI and is perennially interested in too many things.
Jeremy Stretch
Jeremy Stretch is the creator and lead maintainer of the NetBox open-source project. Building on his years of experience in network engineering, Jeremy focuses on developing the tools crucial to network automation systems. He resides in North Carolina with his wife and three children.
Salil Jani
Salil leads operations for the NetBox Labs division of NS1. Salil found his passion in advising, building, and scaling early-stage companies while a partner at Norris Law, where he created the firm’s venture tech and emerging companies practice. He holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.
Bill Lapcevic
A seasoned software veteran, Bill has head software leadership roles in Business Development, Sales, Customer Success, and more. His experience spans companies large and small with a common theme - fast growth.
Bill’s previous experience includes running Business Development and Customer Success at New Relic, Global Channels and Alliances at Auth0, and Chief Operating Officer at Sentry.io.
Bill Graduated with a BA from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Pepperdine.
Mark Coleman
Mark Coleman, Head of Product, works with the NetBox Labs team to build pathways to commercialization around NetBox while fostering growth within the open-source community. Mark has previously served as senior director of developer relations at Equinix Metal. Mark has also served as the marketing chairperson for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
Xiao Wei
Xiao Wei is a finance executive with over a decade of operating, financing, and M&A experience in enterprise software, digital advertising, and other technology verticals. Xiao serves as VP of Finance of NS1. Previously, Xiao has served as Sr Director of Financial Analytics at Xandr, fka AppNexus. Xiao also spent time as a private equity investor at Clearlake Capital and as an investment banker at Citigroup. He has a BA in economics-math and biology from Columbia University.
Shannon Weyrick
A veteran of internet infrastructure for over 20 years, Shannon is an accomplished technical architect, developer, and leader. His experience encompasses both development and operations of globally distributed platforms. A regular open-source contributor, he has led and worked on a wide range of infrastructure projects, from high-performance servers to novel programming languages and runtimes. He enjoys writing and speaking at industry conferences and has previously worked at Internap and F5 Networks.
Maggie Naron
Maggie serves as Chief of Staff for NetBox Labs where she wrangles people and processes and generally gets things moving in the right direction. She holds a finance degree from the University at Buffalo.