Fareed Adib joined Vista Equity Partners in 2016 and is President of OneVista and a member of the private equity Flagship team.

Additionally, Fareed works closely with Vista’s Founder, Chairman and CEO, Robert F. Smith, and the Capital & Partner Solutions team on strategic limited partner engagements. Fareed has been actively involved in numerous Vista transactions, including representative transactions such as CentralSquare, Jio and mabl.

Before his current role at Vista, Fareed led the Product & Technology team and acted as the firm’s first CTO, leading firm and portfolio-wide efforts around diligence, product management, product development, cybersecurity, cloud development and artificial intelligence and machine learning. Fareed was also President of the Value Creation Team, where he helped architect the Value Creation organization.

Fareed has more than 25 years of senior technology leadership experience and was named one of “The Smartest People in Tech” by Fortune in 2011. He has a distinguished track record of building diverse, global teams while managing billion-dollar businesses for some of the world’s most impactful and iconic brands, including Google, Softbank, Sprint, Sun and IBM.

Fareed leads Vista’s partnership with Code.org, a nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools and increasing participation by young women and students from other underrepresented groups.