DeNuccio most recently managed Wild West Capital LLC, an angel investing, management and technology consulting firm he co-founded in 2012. From 2010 to 2012, he served as the chief executive of Metaswitch Networks, and before that he served as President and CEO of Redback Networks, a publicly-traded provider of edge routers that was acquired by Ericsson.
In December, Violin Memory fired CEO Don Basile, three months after the company raised $162 million in an IPO in September. Since then, the price of shares declined significantly.