Susan St. Ledger

For nearly three decades, St. Ledger has helped build and transform early-to-market, high-growth software companies through identifying market opportunity and transforming culture and operations for scale. She brings to HashiCorp a deep domain expertise in cloud environments and cross-functional business transformation. Susan anchors her leadership principles in what she calls a high-growth mindset, which is required to continuously transform and accelerate business.

St. Ledger previously served as chief revenue officer before her appointment to become the president of global field operations at Splunk, provider of the world’s first Data-to-Everything Platform designed to investigate, monitor, analyze, and act on data at any scale. Since Susan joined Splunk in 2016, the company’s valuation has more than tripled, and as of November 2019, Splunk is projected to reach $2.35 billion in total revenues for its current fiscal year. Prior to Splunk, Susan spent nearly a decade at Salesforce.com, helping to grow the company from approximately $100 million to approximately $8 billion in annual revenue. After succeeding in a number of leadership positions during her tenure at Salesforce.com, she served most recently as chief revenue officer of Marketing Cloud prior to joining Splunk. Before Salesforce.com, St. Ledger had over a decade of success at Sun Microsystems, starting as a systems engineer and leaving as vice president of a global sales organization.