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Management Team
Board of Directors

Gary Steele (he/him)

President and Chief Executive Officer

Gary Steele is Splunk’s President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors. A highly regarded technology executive with over 30 years of experience, he has a proven track record of successfully scaling SaaS operations and growing multi-billion dollar global enterprises. Prior to joining Splunk, Gary was the founding CEO of Proofpoint, where he led the company’s growth from an early-stage start-up to a leading, publicly traded security-as-a-service provider. He previously served as CEO of Portera and held various leadership roles at Sybase, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Gary has also served as a member of the board of directors of Upwork, a talent freelancing platform, since 2018. He holds a B.S. from Washington State University.

Tom Casey (he/him)

Senior Vice President, Products & Technology

Tom Casey is the Senior Vice President, Products & Technology for Splunk. With over 25 years of experience, Tom is responsible for evolving Splunk’s market-leading unified security and observability platform. Prior to joining Splunk, he served as Senior Vice President, Engineering at DocuSign, where he led the company’s product strategy, including development, execution and delivery of all products worldwide. Prior to DocuSign, Tom served as Vice President, Platform and Infrastructure at Apptio, where he helped scale the Company’s SaaS platform from a single offering to a multi-product portfolio. Before that, he spent 16 years at Microsoft in a number of leadership positions in product and engineering. He holds a B.S. from the University of Arizona.

Executive Sponsor: Neurodiversity Employee Resource Group

Sharyl Givens (she/her)

Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer

Sharyl Givens is the Senior Vice President, Chief People Officer for Splunk. Prior to Splunk, she spent 11 years at Proofpoint in human resources leadership roles, including the past eight years as Chief Human Resources Officer. At Proofpoint, Sharyl was responsible for driving global business growth through people-centric human resources initiatives, including key talent development, DEI and wellness programs. Sharyl has over 20 years of experience, including a variety of human resources roles at Rambus, SanDisk, Dolby Laboratories, Opsware (formerly Loudcloud and now part of HP Inc.) and Calico Commerce. Sharyl holds a B.S. from Menlo College.

Executive Sponsor: Somos Employee Resource Group

Claire Hockin (she/her)

Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer

Claire Hockin is the Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer for Splunk. With nearly 25 years of experience, she leads all aspects of the global marketing organization to build reputation, engagement and demand for Splunk. Prior to joining Splunk, Claire held leadership positions within global product, technology, and consulting organizations including Infosys, Accenture and Capgemini in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. She holds a B.S. from Southampton University.

Executive Sponsor: Black Employees Achieve More at Splunk (BEAMS) Employee Resource Group

Emily Killam (she/her)

Senior Vice President, Go-to-Market Operations

Emily Killam is the Senior Vice President of Go-to-Market Operations for Splunk. With over 20 years of sales experience, she is responsible for leading all facets of operational excellence across sales, customer success and marketing in support of the go-to-market organization. Prior to joining Splunk, Emily spent eight years at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in sales strategy leadership roles in which she directed shared services and business operations for its multibillion-dollar worldwide public sector and strategic industries organizations. Prior to AWS, she served as a finance leader with Raytheon Technologies Corporation and in sales roles with AccuWeather and The Hershey Company. Emily holds a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University.

Executive Sponsor: Pilipinx Employee Resource Group

Ammar Maraqa (he/him)

Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer

Ammar Maraqa is the Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer for Splunk. With over 25 years of experience, he leads strategy, corporate development, pricing and monetization, and the CISO organization. Prior to joining Splunk, Ammar served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Cisco Systems, held various product and operations roles at Dell and was a senior associate at Bain & Company. He holds B.S. degrees from the Wharton and Engineering schools at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.

Executive Sponsor: Natives Employee Resource Group

Scott Morgan (he/him)

Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, Global Affairs and Secretary

Scott Morgan is Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer, Global Affairs & Secretary for Splunk. With over 25 years of technology industry experience, he oversees Splunk’s legal, government affairs and global impact functions. Prior to joining Splunk, he served as legal counsel at Autodesk and Tellabs. He began his career as an associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP and Thoits, Love, Hershberger & McClean LLP. Scott currently serves as GeoTech Commissioner on the Atlantic Council and as Chair of the Board of Directors for BSA, The Software Alliance. He holds a B.A. from University of California, Berkeley as well as a J.D. from UC College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly known as UC Hastings).

Executive Sponsor: Disabled=True Employee Resource Group

Toni Pavlovich (she/her)

Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Officer

Toni Pavlovich is the Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Officer for Splunk. With over 30 years of experience, she is responsible for championing customer experience while fostering a customer-first mindset and culture across Splunk. Prior to joining Splunk, Toni served as Vice President of Global Business Critical Services and Vice President of Technical Sales and Professional Services for Veritas Technologies. Prior to Veritas, she spent 11 years at Symantec in strategic leadership roles driving delivery excellence in Technical Sales and Professional Services, and transforming Global Support. Toni has also held leadership positions with Oracle and Interactive Development Environments and previously served as an avionics engineer for Lockheed Aeronautical Systems. She holds a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Executive Sponsor: Veterans Employee Resource Group

Brian Roberts (he/him)

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Brian Roberts is the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Splunk. With 30 years of financial expertise, he has led financial operations and corporate development strategies at some of the most recognized brands in the technology and consumer industries. Prior to joining Splunk, Brian served as CFO of Ozone Networks (d/b/a OpenSea). Prior to that, he served as CFO of Lyft for seven years. He also held corporate development leadership roles at Microsoft and Walmart Global eCommerce, and spent over a dozen years as an investment banker. Brian holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Executive Sponsor: Womxn+ Employee Resource Group

Christian T. Smith (he/him)

Senior Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer

Christian Smith is the Senior Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer for Splunk. With more than 25 years of experience, he is responsible for all commercial business worldwide including global sales, renewals, sales engineering as well as partnerships and alliances. Prior to joining Splunk, Christian served as Chief Revenue Officer for Nintex and led its global go-to-market including sales, channel programs, field marketing as well as customer success and support. He also held leadership roles at Oracle, ATG and Daptiv. Christian holds a B.A. from the University of Washington.

Executive Sponsor: Pride Employee Resource Group

Graham V. Smith

Chair of Splunk Inc.

Graham V. Smith has served as a member of our board of directors since 2011 and Chair since 2019. From November 2021 to April 2022, Mr. Smith served as our interim CEO. Mr. Smith served in various executive leadership positions at salesforce.com, inc., a provider of enterprise cloud computing software, from 2007 to 2015, including as Chief Financial Officer and most recently as Executive Vice President. Prior to joining Salesforce, Mr. Smith served as Chief Financial Officer at Advent Software Inc., a portfolio accounting software company, from 2003 to 2007. Mr. Smith has served as a member of the board of directors of Procore Technologies, Inc., a provider of cloud-based construction management software, since 2020, and Axon Enterprise, Inc., a provider of public safety security devices and solutions, since 2023. Mr. Smith previously served on the boards of directors of Citrix Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company, from 2015 to 2018, MINDBODY, Inc., a cloud-based wellness services marketplace from 2015 to 2019, Xero Limited, an online accounting software company, from 2015 to 2020, BlackLine, Inc., a provider of cloud-based solutions for finance and accounting, from 2015 to 2022, Slack Technologies, Inc., a provider of cloud-based professional collaboration tools, from 2018 to 2021, and Elliott Opportunity II Corp., a special purchase acquisition company, from June to December 2021. Mr. Smith holds a B.Sc. from Bristol University in England and qualified as a chartered accountant in England and Wales.

Mark Carges

Independent Board Member and Former CTO of eBay Inc.

Mark Carges has served as a member of our board of directors since 2014. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer of eBay Inc., an e-commerce company, from September 2009 to September 2014. Mr. Carges was a member of the eBay Inc. leadership team since September 2008, overseeing eBay Inc.’s platform strategy, as well as having overall responsibility for technology, software development and site operations for eBay.com. Prior to joining eBay Inc., Mr. Carges was Executive Vice President, Products and General Manager, for the Business Interaction Division at BEA Systems, a provider of enterprise application infrastructure software which was acquired by Oracle in April 2008. During more than a decade at BEA, Mr. Carges held a variety of senior technology leadership roles, including Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Carges began his career at Bell Labs as one of the original architects of Tuxedo, software for constructing highly scalable transaction processing applications. Mr. Carges has served as a member of the board of directors of Veeva Systems Inc., a provider of industry cloud solutions for the global life sciences industry, since 2017. Mr. Carges holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MS from New York University.

Kenneth Hao

Chairman and Managing Partner, Silver Lake

Ken Hao has served as a member of our board of directors since 2021. Since December 2019, Mr. Hao has served as Chairman and Managing Partner of Silver Lake, a global technology investment firm. Prior to this role, Mr. Hao served in various roles at Silver Lake, which he joined in 2000, including Managing Partner and Managing Director from 2012 to 2019. Prior to joining Silver Lake, Mr. Hao served as Managing Director at Hambrecht & Quist (now part of J.P. Morgan), from 1990 to 1999. Mr. Hao has served as a member of the board of directors of SolarWinds Corporation, an IT infrastructure management software company, since 2016. Mr. Hao previously served on the board of directors of Broadcom Inc., a global technology leader in semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, from 2016 to 2018, SMART Global Holdings, Inc., a provider of specialty memory, storage and hybrid solutions, from 2011 to 2021, and NortonLifeLock Inc., a global leader in consumer cyber safety, from 2016 to 2022. Mr. Hao holds an A.B. from Harvard College.

Patricia B. Morrison

Independent Board Member and Former Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Cardinal Health

Patricia B. Morrison has served as a member of our board of directors since 2013. Ms. Morrison was Executive Vice President, Customer Support Services and Chief Information Officer at Cardinal Health, Inc., a provider of healthcare services, from 2009 to 2018. Prior to joining Cardinal Health, Ms. Morrison was Chief Executive Officer of Mainstay Partners, a technology advisory firm, from 2008 to 2009, and Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Motorola, Inc., a designer, manufacturer, marketer and seller of mobility products, from 2005 to 2008. Her previous experience also includes Chief Information Officer of Office Depot, Inc. and senior-level information technology positions at PepsiCo, Inc., The Quaker Oats Company, General Electric Company, and The Procter & Gamble Company. Ms. Morrison has served as a member of the board of directors of Baxter International Inc., a global medical products company, since 2019. Ms. Morrison previously served on the board of directors of Aramark, a global provider of food, facilities and uniform services, from 2017 to 2019, and Virtusa Corporation, a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering, and IT services and solutions, from 2020 to 2021. Ms. Morrison holds a B.A. and B.S. from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Yamini Rangan

President and Chief Executive Officer, HubSpot, Inc.

Yamini Rangan has served as a member of our board of directors since 2023. Ms. Rangan has served as President, CEO and Director of HubSpot, Inc., a customer relationship management software company, since 2021 and previously served as Chief Customer Officer, from January 2020 to September 2021. Prior to joining HubSpot, she served as Chief Customer Officer of Dropbox, Inc., a cloud-based storage and collaboration company, from August 2018 to January 2020, and as Vice President, Business Strategy and Operations, from 2016 to 2018. Prior to joining Dropbox, Ms. Rangan served in various senior leadership roles at Workday, Inc., a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, from 2011 to 2015, Appirio, Inc., an information technology consulting company (acquired by Wipro Limited in 2016), from 2009 to 2011 and SAP SE, a multinational software company, from 2004 to 2008. Ms. Rangan holds a B.S. from Bharathiar University, an M.S. from Clemson University and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Elisa Steele

Independent Board Member

Elisa Steele has served as a member of our board of directors since 2017. Ms. Steele previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Namely, Inc., a financial and human capital management software company, from 2018 to 2019. Ms. Steele previously served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Jive Software, Inc., a collaboration software company, which was acquired in June 2017. Ms. Steele was a member of the Jive Software executive leadership team since 2014. Prior to joining Jive Software, Ms. Steele served as Chief Marketing Officer and Corporate Vice President, Consumer Apps & Services at Microsoft Corporation, a worldwide provider of software, services and solutions, and Chief Marketing Officer of Skype, an Internet communications company, from 2012 to 2014. Ms. Steele also has held executive leadership positions at Yahoo! Inc. and NetApp, Inc. Ms. Steele has served as a member of the boards of directors of JFrog Ltd., an enterprise software company, since 2020, Bumble Inc., an online dating and social networking platform, since 2020, Procore Technologies, Inc., a provider of cloud-based construction management software, since 2020, and Amplitude, Inc., a product analytics software provider, since 2021. Ms. Steele previously served on the board of directors of Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., a learning and human capital management software company, from 2018 to 2021. Ms. Steele holds a B.S. from the University of New Hampshire and an M.B.A. from San Francisco State University.

Gary Steele (he/him)

President and Chief Executive Officer, Splunk Inc.

David Tunnell

Partner, Hellman & Friedman

David Tunnell has served as a member of our board of directors since 2022. Since 2003, Mr. Tunnell has served as a Partner at Hellman & Friedman (H&F), a private investment firm. He is a member of the H&F Investment Committee, leads the Firm’s San Francisco office, and oversees its investing activities in the Software & Tech and Insurance & Insurance Services sectors. Mr. Tunnell joined H&F originally in 1994 and has been involved with numerous portfolio companies over 25 years of H&F’s investing history. Mr. Tunnell holds an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.

General Dennis L. Via

Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton & Former Four-Star U.S. Army General

General Dennis L. Via, US Army, Retired, has served on our board of directors since 2020. General Via has served as an Executive Vice President for Corporate Engagement and a member of the Global Defense Sector leadership team since 2021, an Executive Vice President in the Global Defense Group’s Joint Combatant Command business from 2018 to 2021 and a fellow for Defense Futures since 2017 at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., a management and information technology consulting firm. Prior to joining Booz Allen, he served in the United States Army from 1980 to 2016, holding multiple command and senior leadership positions, including as the Commander of the U.S. Army Materiel Command from 2012 to 2016 and retiring as a four-star General. General Via has served as a member of the board of directors for Milliken & Company, a diversified industrial manufacturer, since 2019. He holds a B.S. from Virginia State University and a Master of Education from Boston University.

Luis Visoso

CFO, Unity Software, Inc.

Luis Visoso has served as a member of our board of directors since 2022. Since April 2021, he has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Unity Software Inc., a real-time 3D (RT3D) software platform company. Prior to joining Unity, Mr. Visoso served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Palo Alto Networks, Inc., a cybersecurity company, from 2020 to 2021. Prior to joining Palo Alto Networks, he served in various roles at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce and cloud-computing company, from 2018 to 2020, including as Chief Financial Officer of Amazon Web Services, Inc. in 2020, and Chief Financial Officer of Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer organization, from 2018 to 2020. From 2016 to 2018, he served as Senior Vice President, Business, Technology and Operations Finance at Cisco Systems, Inc., a networking technology company. Prior to joining Cisco, Mr. Visoso held various roles at The Procter & Gamble Company, a consumer products company, from 1993 to 2016, including most recently as Vice President, F&A Global Business Units. Mr. Visoso holds a bachelor’s degree from Tecnológico de Monterrey.

Richard Wallace

President and Chief Executive Officer, KLA Corporation

Rick Wallace has served as a member of our board of directors since 2022. Mr. Wallace has served as President, CEO and Director of KLA Corporation, a supplier of industry-leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry, since 2006. Prior to this role, Mr. Wallace served in various leadership roles at KLA during his over 30-year tenure with the organization, including as Chief Operations Officer from July 2005 to December 2005, Executive Vice President of the Customer Group from May 2004 to July 2005, and Executive Vice President of the Wafer Inspection Group from July 2000 to May 2004. Prior to joining KLA, he held positions with Ultratech Stepper, Inc. and Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. He previously served on the board of directors of Proofpoint, Inc., a cybersecurity and compliance company, from 2017 to 2021, and NetApp, Inc., a storage and data management company, from 2011 to 2019. Mr. Wallace holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan and an M.S. from Santa Clara University.

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