Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) helps organizations ask questions, get answers, take actions and achieve business outcomes from their data. Organizations use market-leading Splunk solutions with machine learning to monitor, investigate and act on all forms of business, IT, security, and Internet of Things data.

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Hockin leads the global marketing team and supports [Splunk](/org/splunk)’s go-to-market efforts to transition customers to cloud. Over the past three years at [Splunk](/org/splunk), Hockin has championed major marketing transformations to reposition [Splunk](/org/splunk) as a cloud-first company and scale customer engagement and growth.

Claire Hockin

Wallace serves as President, CEO and Director of KLA Corporation, a developer of industry-leading equipment and services that enable innovation throughout the electronics industry. Prior to being appointed CEO in 2006, he served in various leadership roles across KLA, 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. His tenure with KLA spans over 30 years, having started as an applications engineer at KLA Instruments in 1988. Prior to joining KLA, Wallace held positions at Ultratech Stepper and Cypress Semiconductor. He previously served on the board of directors of Proofpoint, a cybersecurity and compliance company, and SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International), a prominent global industry association. Wallace holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan and an M.S. from Santa Clara University.

Richard P. Wallace

Tunnell is a Partner at Hellman & Friedman (H&F) and a member of the H&F Investment Committee. He leads the Firm’s San Francisco office and oversees its investing activities in the Software & Tech and Insurance & Insurance Services sectors. David joined H&F originally in 1994 and has been involved with numerous portfolio companies over 25 years of H&F’s investing history. He is currently serving as a director of the operating committee at Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories, Inc., a global customer-experience software platform provider, and as a director of the board at UKG (Ultimate Kronos Group), a global provider of human capital management, payroll and workforce management solutions. Prior to H&F, David was employed by Lazard Frères & Co. in New York. He holds an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School.

David Tunnell

Petra Jenner is the SVP & GM of EMEA at [Splunk](/org/splunk). Petra has previously held positions at ProData Consult, [Salesforce](/org/salesforce), Microsoft, Check Point Software Technologies, Informix Software, Pivotal GmbH, and iMediation GmbH. Petra has a long history of working in the software industry in various marketing and sales roles. Petra has a deep understanding of the software industry and the needs of their customers. Petra is a strategic thinker and a strong leader. Petra is passionate about their work and is always looking for ways to improve their skills and knowledge.

After completing their undergraduate degree, Petra Jenner pursued a field in executive program in international management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Petra Jenner reports to Christian Smith, SVP, Chief Revenue Officer.

Petra Jenner

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.

Sharyl Givens

Tom Casey leads the company’s platform strategy, including development and operations of the Splunk Platform.

Casey offers over 25 years of experience in technology, with a focus on helping scale cloud and enterprise software companies into multi-product platforms. Most recently, Casey served as Senior Vice President, Engineering at DocuSign, where he led the entire products and technology team responsible for development and operations of the company’s eSignature and Contract Lifecycle Management applications, along with its Agreement Cloud Platform. Prior to DocuSign, Casey was Vice President, Platform and Infrastructure at Apptio, where he oversaw the growth of its portfolio to multiple products. He also spent 16 years at Microsoft in various product and engineering leadership roles.

Tom Casey

Jason Lee is the Chief Information Security Officer at [Splunk](/org/splunk). Prior to joining [Splunk](/org/splunk), Jason was the Senior Vice President of Security at [Salesforce](/org/salesforce) from September 2017 to June 2020. In this role, Jason was responsible for increasing the maturity of each security function to a world class benchmark. Jason was also heavily customer facing, providing transparency to security incident and vulnerabilities at the executive levels. 

Before their time at [Salesforce](/org/salesforce), Jason was the Principal Director of Security Engineering - Windows Devices Group (WDG) at Microsoft from January 2002 to September 2017. In this role, Jason was responsible for all operational aspects of security for the WDG, including incident response, intrusion detection, threat intelligence, system security, crypto operations, identity and access management, network security, threat and vulnerability management, security operations center, Devops for security systems, and red team.

Jason Lee has a BA in MIS from Washington State University and a certification from ISC2 in CISSP. Jason also has a certification from nCipher plc in NCipher Certified System Engineer.

They are on a team with Katie Bianchi - SVP, Chief Customer Officer, Garth Fort - SVP, Chief Product Officer, and Christian Smith - SVP, Chief Revenue Officer. Jason Lee reports to Gary Steele, President & CEO.

Jason Lee

Gary Steele is [Splunk](/org/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](/org/splunk) in 2022, Gary was the founding CEO of [Proofpoint](/org/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](/org/upwork), a talent freelancing platform, since 2018. He holds a B.S. from Washington State University.

Gary Steele

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Tim Blanco

Joe Giovannetti

Andre Beaudoin

Everett Paulk

Dennis Bradley

Chris Jensen

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Daniel Lee

Scott Morgan has served as our Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer since 2019 and our Secretary since 2018. Mr. Morgan has also led our Global Affairs initiatives since 2020. Prior to this, Mr. Morgan served as our General Counsel from 2017 to 2019, as our Vice President, Associate General Counsel from 2014 to 2017 and as our Associate General Counsel from 2012 to 2014. He also served as our Assistant Secretary from 2012 to 2018. Prior to joining us, Mr. Morgan served as legal counsel at Autodesk, Inc., a design software and services company, from 2007 to 2012. From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Morgan served as legal counsel at Tellabs, Inc., a provider of access networks solutions. Mr. Morgan began his career as an associate at Morrison & Foerster LLP and at Thoits, Love, Hershberger & McClean LLP. Mr. Morgan holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Scott Morgan

Elisa Steele has served as a member of our board of directors since 2017. Since 2019, Ms. Steele has served as Chair, Board of Directors at Namely, Inc., a financial and human capital management software company, where she served as Chief Executive Officer 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 2012-2014. Ms. Steele also has held executive leadership positions Yahoo! Inc. and NetApp, Inc. Ms. Steele has served as a member of the board of directors of Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc., a learning and human capital management software company, since 2018. Ms. Steele holds a B.S. from the [University of New Hampshire](/org/university-of-new-hampshire) and an M.B.A. from [San Francisco State University](/org/san-francisco-state-university).

Elisa Steele

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](/org/nyu).

Mark Carges

Ken Hao has served as a member of the board of directors since 2021. Since December 2019, Mr. Hao has served as Chairman and Managing Partner of [Silver Lake](/org/silver-lake), a global technology investment firm. Prior to this role, Mr. Hao served in various roles at [Silver Lake](/org/silver-lake), which he joined in 2000, including Managing Partner and Managing Director from 2012 to 2019. Prior to joining [Silver Lake](/org/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 NortonLifeLock Inc., a global leader in consumer cyber safety, since 2016, and 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, and SMART Global Holdings, Inc., a provider of specialty memory, storage and hybrid solutions, from 2011 to 2021. Mr. Hao holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard College.

Kenneth Hao

Independent Board Member and Former CFO and Vice President, Amazon Web Services

Sean Boyle has served as a member of our board of directors since 2020. He brings more than two decades of finance and capital markets experience, financial planning and operations, as well as management and strategy. He previously served in various roles at Amazon Web Services, Inc., a cloud computing and infrastructure company, between 2006 and 2020, including as Vice President of Investor Relations, Chief Financial Officer, and most recently as Vice President. Mr. Boyle holds a B.Com. (Hons) and an M.B.A. from the [University of Windsor](/org/university-of-windsor).

Sean Boyle

Luis Visoso has served as a member of the 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](/org/palo-alto-networks), Inc., a cybersecurity company, from 2020 to 2021. Prior to joining [Palo Alto Networks](/org/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](/org/cisco) Systems, Inc., a networking technology company. Prior to joining [Cisco](/org/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.

Luis Visoso

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Janet Sutton

Fort joined [Splunk](/org/splunk) from AWS and plays an instrumental role in continuing to evolve its market-leading product portfolio of software and cloud services. A former Microsoft and AWS general manager, he has a successful record guiding software teams through periods of high growth at scale and driving their transition to cloud.

Garth Fort

Katie Bianchi is the Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Officer for [Splunk](/org/splunk). With over 20 years of experience, she oversees the commitment to helping customers achieve their business outcomes and ongoing value with [Splunk](/org/splunk). Katie is passionate about delivering exceptional customer experiences and introducing new services that help customers realize value with mission-critical enterprise technology. Prior to joining [Splunk](/org/splunk) in 2018, she served as Vice President of Customer Success at GE Digital, where she led customer success growth strategy, services portfolio management, and renewal operations for its software business. Throughout her career, Katie has held leadership roles in product management, business development, services, marketing and operations across industries, including aviation, power generation, and oil and gas. She holds a B.S. from [Ithaca College](/org/ithaca-college) and an M.B.A from [Boston College](/org/boston-college).

Katie Bianchi

Ammar Maraqa is the Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer at Splunk. It’s a role that taps his passion for technology and innovation and his deep experience helping companies grow and transform. Ammar came to Splunk in 2015 as Vice President of Business Operations and currently leads Corporate Strategy, Corporate Development, and Pricing and Monetization. For a time, he also led Global Strategic Alliances, and served as General Manager for IoT Markets. Before coming to Splunk, Ammar served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Cisco Systems, Inc., and held various Product roles at Dell, Inc prior to that. He started his career in consulting at Bain & Company working with companies to solve critical growth and scaling challenges. Ammar holds a dual bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Computer Engineering and Finance, and an M.B.A from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Ammar Maraqa

Christian Smith is Senior Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer and has been with Splunk since 2017. He is responsible for all commercial business worldwide and brings more than 25 years of experience in cloud and hybrid go-to-market strategy, SaaS sales and marketing, scaling sales organizations and acquisition integration. Christian possesses a deep knowledge of the technology and software industry, having previously served as Chief Revenue Officer at Nintex and held a number of leadership roles at Oracle, ATG and Daptiv. Christian holds a B.A. from the University of Washington and is an avid athlete who spends non-work time running, hiking, snow skiing, cross training, and then recovering with yoga.



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Godfrey R. Sullivan

Kirstin Niver

Bill Brown

Leslie Hatch

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Tom Andrew

Bobbi Newton

Kevin Deng

Connor Knapp

Teresa Lopez

Bruce Smith

Daryl Russell

Gregory Pavone

Rhonda Weaver

General Dennis L. Via, US Army, Retired, has served on our Board since 2020. Since 2017, General Via has served as an Executive Vice President, fellow for Defense Futures, and a senior executive leader in the Global Defense Group’s Joint Combatant Command business of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., a management and information technology consulting firm. Prior to joining Booz Allen, he served in the United States Army from 1980-2016, holding multiple command and senior leadership positions, including as the Commander of the U.S. Army Materiel Command from 2012-2016 and retiring as a 4-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.



Dennis L. Via

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](/org/cardinal-health), Inc., a provider of healthcare services, from 2009 to 2018. Prior to joining [Cardinal Health](/org/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](/org/aramark), a global provider of food, facilities and uniform services, from 2017 to 2019. Ms. Morrison holds a B.A. and B.S. from [Miami University](/org/miami-university) in Oxford, Ohio.

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