Rod Aliabadi

Rod joined Vista Equity Partners in 2008.

He is a member of the private equity Flagship team and serves on the Vista Flagship Funds’ Investment Committee. Rod has been involved in numerous Vista investments, including EAB, KnowBe4, Nexthink, Securonix and TripleLift. He was also formerly involved with the firm’s investments in Acquia, Aderant, BigMachines, Cloud Software Group, Forcepoint, Integral Ad Science, Mediaocean, Mitratech, Numerator, Ping Identity, Quickbase, Relias Learning, SirsiDynix, Stats Perform, SumTotal and Websense.

Prior to Vista, Rod worked at the Stanford Genome Technology Center, where he developed nanotechnology-driven diagnostics. While at Stanford, he was involved in the creation and spin-out of NextBio, a SaaS provider of products for integrating corporate and public data from sequencing and microarray technologies, which was acquired by Illumina in 2013.