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As CMO, Woods is responsible for overseeing [Teradata](/org/teradata)’s strategic marketing planning and delivery, including brand and reputation management, digital and social properties, as well as leading customer generation, influencer marketing, public relations, communications and enriching customer experiences. 

Woods is a results-driven marketing executive with thirty years of experience leading corporate transformations, propelling marketing organizations to utilize data and insights, and leading the way in digital marketing. She is recognized for instilling today’s modern marketing approaches that successfully grow businesses. Her career spans Fortune 100 companies, including IBM, GE, Oracle and [Verizon](/org/verizon-communications), covering both business-to-business and business-to-consumer go-to-market initiatives. Woods joins [Teradata](/org/teradata) from [NielsenIQ](/org/nielseniq) where she served as Global Chief Marketing & Communications Officer. There, Woods focused on the firm’s transformation to an independent company, leading the revitalization of the company’s brand, image and perception to reflect its new character: from legacy brand to modern data-driven enterprise. Previously, Woods was with IBM for nearly 10 years, including as CMO of its $13 billion Partner Ecosystem, where she focused on building cloud, Data, AI and SaaS strategies across an ecosystem of over 120,000 firms.

Jacqueline Woods

James A. Hartman is an account executive at [Teradata](/org/teradata). Prior to their current position, they served as Marine Corps Liaison and Operations/Project Manager at the Office of the Secretary of Defense from October 2014 to June 2016. In this role, they were responsible for coordinating and executing over 35 DoD outreach missions to both private and public-sector organizations across the Continental United States. This involved developing mission statements, securing buy-in from key stakeholders, coordinating manpower and material requirements, arranging for media coverage, and conducting cost analyses. James also recruited over 50 public and private organizations as DoD Commemorative partners, securing their commitments to fund and execute events, workshops, and presentations on behalf of the DoD. In addition, they developed two analytic database tools to track existing DoD Commemoration Projects as well as labor utilization, resulting in the reduction of 30 in-office contractor weekly labor hours and an office savings of approximately $125,000 annually.

James A. Hartman has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from George Mason University - School of Business, where they studied Business Analytics. James also has a B.S. from [Virginia Tech](/org/virginia-tech), and is certified by the American Educational Institute as a Fraud Claims Law Specialist.

James A. Hartman

Hillary Ashton is the Chief Product Officer for [Teradata](/org/teradata). In this capacity, Hillary leads the global products organization, a diverse team responsible for innovation, product management, engineering and quality, ensuring that our hybrid multi-cloud platform delivers differentiated value to our customers and future customers. Her organization focuses on end-to-end oversight of all technology innovations at [Teradata](/org/teradata), including defining strategic direction for our hybrid cloud platform portfolio, engineering this strategic direction into high quality products for our customers and delivering a world-class user experience. With a strong grounding in analytics, cloud and leading-edge technologies, Hillary has proven contributions to expanding market share and increasing revenue.

Prior to [Teradata](/org/teradata), Hillary served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of PTC’s Augmented Reality (AR) business unit. In this role, she was responsible for all operational aspects of the Vuforia SaaS business and its product lines, including executive leadership and vision, strategy, product management, engineering, sales and marketing. Other roles include serving as SVP of Analytics SaaS solutions at [Manthan](/org/manthan) and as Director, Customer Intelligence at SAS. In each of these roles, Hillary has contributed to expanding market share and increasing revenue.

A graduate of Franklin & Marshall College where she earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Government, Hillary has been quoted in the press extensively and has spoken at various conference and events worldwide. In 2019 she was named to the [National Diversity Council](/org/national-diversity-council)’s (NDC) annual list of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology.

Hillary Ashton

Peter Kelly

Yoram Ben Sadon

Ajay Kumar Kakarania

Thomas Sluis

George Verdon

Etienne SIGWALD

Elaine Lee

Chris Koeberle

THOMAS MCCABE

Dean Sontag

Feng Zhao

Todd Hershberger

Jed Tonelson

Daniel Fishback was the President and Chief Executive Officer of DemandTec, Inc., a provider of a cloud-based collaborative optimization network for retailers and consumer products companies that was acquired by IBM in 2012. From 2000 to 2001, Mr. Fishback served as Vice President of Channels for Ariba, Inc., a provider of solutions to help companies manage their corporate spending. Prior to that, he held sales and executive leadership positions at Trading Dynamics and Hyperion Solutions Corporation. Mr. Fishback serves on the board of Qumu Corporation, a leading enterprise video platform provider, serves on the board of directors for several private technology companies, and is an advisor and consultant to a number of companies focusing on the application of analytic solutions to solve complex business problems. He joined our board in 2017.

Daniel R. Fishback

Michael P. Gianoni is the President and Chief Executive Officer of [Blackbaud](/org/blackbaud), Inc., a provider of software and services specifically designed for nonprofit organizations, a position he has held since joining the company in January 2014. Previously, Mr. Gianoni was the Executive Vice President and Group President, Financial Institutions, at [Fiserv](/org/fiserv), Inc., a global technology provider serving the financial services industry, from January 2010 to December 2013. He joined [Fiserv](/org/fiserv) as President of its Investment Services division in December 2007, where he was responsible for product, technology, sales, finance, operations, and strategy. From 2006 until its acquisition by [Fiserv](/org/fiserv) in 2007, Mr. Gianoni was Executive Vice President and General Manager of CheckFree Corporation, a leading provider of financial e-commerce solutions.  Prior to that time, held a number of senior management positions at DST Systems Inc., an information processing and software services company. Mr. Gianoni serves as a director of [Blackbaud](/org/blackbaud) and joined [Teradata](/org/teradata)’s board in January 2015 and was appointed its independent Lead Director in January 2019.

Michael P. Gianoni

Timothy Chou served as President of Oracle On Demand, a division of Oracle Corporation from 1999 until his retirement in January 2005, during which time he led the growth of Oracle’s cloud business from a nascent stage to an industry-leading position. Prior to that, Dr. Chou served as Chief Operating Officer of Reasoning, Inc., a pioneering application services provider, until it was acquired by Oracle in 2000. He served on the board of Embarcadero Technologies, a provider of database tools, from 2000 until 2007. In addition to his commercial career, he has taught in the computer science department at [Stanford University](/org/stanford) since 1982. In 2006, he launched the first class on cloud computing at Stanford and, in 2008, started a similar class at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. In 2013, he became the Chairman of the Alchemist, a leading enterprise software accelerator where he is focused on analytics, artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. His landmark book, The End of Software, served to educate enterprises, operators and investors in this major shift in business models. He has been a director at [Blackbaud](/org/blackbaud) since 2007. He joined our board in 2017.

Timothy C.K. Chou

Lisa Bacus served as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for [Cigna](/org/cigna-corporation) Corporation from May 2013 until her retirement in July 2019. Prior to joining [Cigna](/org/cigna-corporation), Ms. Bacus was the Executive Vice President and Chief Marketer at [American Family Insurance](/org/american-family-insurance) Group from 2011 until 2013, and its Vice President, Marketing, from 2008 to 2011. Before joining [American Family Insurance](/org/american-family-insurance), she was with Ford Motor Company, from 1986 to 2008, where she held a number of executive leadership positions, including Executive Director of Global Market Research and Insights, Executive Director of Global Marketing Strategy, and head of marketing for Ford in Mexico. She serves on the board of privately-held Culver Franchising System, Inc., as well as a number of non-profit corporations, and previously served on the board of Shoutlet, Inc., a privately-held company. She joined our board in 2015.

Lisa R. Bacus

Kathy Cullen-Cote joins [Teradata](/org/teradata) from PTC, a Boston-based software company, where she was serving as EVP and Chief Human Resources Officer. At PTC, Cullen-Cote served in HR roles of increasing responsibility as she guided the organization’s growth through cultural transformation programs, global employee engagement initiatives, and the implementation and adoption of cutting-edge HR systems. Prior to PTC, she served in HR leadership roles at Johnson and Johnson, Raytheon, Imark Communications and Barry Controls. Cullen-Cote recently was awarded the 2018 HR Leadership Forum Bob Gatti HR Leadership Excellence Award. Cullen-Cote will be based in [Teradata](/org/teradata)’s San Diego headquarters.

Kathy Cullen-Cote

John Schwarz is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Visier Inc., a business analytics software firm, a position he has held since 2010. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer of SAP Business Objects, a unit of SAP AG, from 2008 to 2010, during which time he was a member of the executive board of SAP AG and also served on the board of directors of SAP Business Objects. From 2005 until its acquisition by SAP in 2008, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Business Objects S.A., a provider of business intelligence software and services. Mr. Schwarz served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Symantec Corporation, a provider of infrastructure security and storage management software, from 2001 to 2005. From 2000 to 2001, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Reciprocal Inc., which provided business-to-business secure e-commerce services for digital content distribution over the Internet. Prior to joining Reciprocal, Mr. Schwarz spent 25 years at IBM Corporation. Mr. Schwarz serves on the boards of Synopsys, Inc. and [Avast Software](/org/avast-software). He is also a member of the Dalhousie University Advisory Board. He joined our board in 2010.

John G. Schwarz

Todd E. McElhatton is Chief Financial Officer of [Zuora](/org/zuora), Inc., an NYSE-listed cloud-based subscription management software company, a position he has held since June 2020. Prior to joining [Zuora](/org/zuora), Mr. McElhatton held various roles at SAP, including Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Cloud Business Group at SAP SE, a multinational software company, from June 2018 to June 2020, and as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SAP North America from February 2017 to June 2018. Prior to that, he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of [VMware](/org/vmware)’s Hybrid Cloud Business, a virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions company, from August 2014 to February 2017. Previously, he was Vice President of Oracle’s Cloud Services and Chief Financial Officer of Hewlett Packard’s Managed Services Business. He joined the board in 2022.

Todd E. McElhatton

Claire Bramley is Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of [Teradata](/org/teradata). A member of the company's Executive Leadership Team, Bramley is responsible for leading the functions of finance, information technology, analytics and security, enterprise risk, and operations.

Bramley brings a proven track record of leading large-scale fiscal and operational disciplines, driving financial and strategic planning, and proactive risk management. With extensive senior leadership experience and deep acumen in corporate finance and accounting, as well as excellent knowledge of the technology industry, Bramley joined [Teradata](/org/teradata) after serving as Global Controller of HP Inc. There she was responsible for financial controls and compliance, external reporting, and coordinating directly with the company’s Audit Committee. Additionally, she headed HP’s Finance Strategy and Transformation efforts and oversaw Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis.

Previously, Bramley served in roles of increasing responsibility within HP’s finance function, including Head of Finance for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), where she oversaw the company’s $17 billion EMEA business. Bramley was also Vice President, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis at HP, where she supported all business units that, collectively, exceeded $100 billion in revenue. Prior to HP, Bramley served as Acting CFO, Finance Controller and Head of Financial Analysis and Reporting at SSP Group PLC., a leading operator of food and beverage outlets in travel locations worldwide.

Bramley holds a BSc. in Accounting and Financial Management from the University of Loughborough, Loughborough, UK. She is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Management Accountant.

Claire Bramley

Steve Fiore

Lawrence Latvala

Greg Lomax

Alexander Scurlock

Jon Poynter

Kyle Russell

Michael Hutchinson is Chief Customer Officer for Teradata, and a member of the Company’s Executive Leadership Team. Hutchinson is responsible for leading Teradata’s Global Customer Services organization. This customer-centric business unit is chartered to drive optimal customer experiences and maximize customer value.

Hutchinson is an experienced leader with an extensive sales and services background, and a strong focus on growing cloud services globally. He brings a stellar track record of delivering against both financial and customer satisfaction targets. He is known for building strong and enduring customer relationships that help support long term business goals.

Hutchinson joined Teradata in June 2021 as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Customer Success, Consulting and Renewals, responsible for defining the Company’s global customer success strategy, maximizing and documenting customer realized business value, and yielding world-class customer net promoter score, retention and use case expansion.

Prior to joining Teradata, Hutchinson served at Verint, including as SVP & Chief Customer Officer where he led the delivery of all post-sales services across Cloud Operations and Security, Customer Success, Professional Services, Product Support and Managed Services. Prior to Verint, Hutchinson served at Oracle for nearly 30 years in numerous roles of increasing responsibility, culminating in Global Vice President, North America Customer Success.

Hutchinson holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Kansas, and is based in Atlanta.

Michael Hutchinson

Hausheer is a veteran technology executive with extensive expertise in all strategic aspects of the IT function. She has demonstrated the ability to apply technology to transform business operations, lower costs and accelerate global alignment while building a collaborative and high-performance culture. Prior to Teradata, Hausheer was senior vice president and CIO of 3D Systems. In that role she established IT as a core function, transforming the IT workforce to deliver enhanced business support, improved end-user tools and consistent project delivery. In 2019, she added global sourcing & procurement to her responsibilities, leading this critical function in the early stages of the COVID supply chain disruptions. Prior to 3D Systems, Hausheer spent 20 years at Hewlett Packard/Hewlett Packard Enterprise in various roles of increasing responsibility. Beginning in 2015, she assumed the role of vice president of global architecture for the newly formed HPE company.

Hausheer has an MBA from Oregon State University and a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University.

Erica Hausheer

Stephen Brobst is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for [Teradata](/org/teradata) Corporation. He is widely regarded as a leading expert in data warehousing and joined the [Teradata](/org/teradata) team in October of 1999. Previously, Brobst successfully launched three start-up companies related to high-end database products and services in the data warehousing and e-business marketplaces.

These businesses included: Tanning Technology Corporation (IPO on NASDAQ), NexTek Solutions (acquired by IBM), and Strategic Technologies & Systems (acquired by NCR).

Stephen also taught graduate courses at [Boston University](/org/boston-university) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in both the MBA program at the Sloan School of Management and in the computer science departments of both universities. He received the instructor of the year award for two of his last five years in the MET Computer Science department at [Boston University](/org/boston-university) and continues as a frequent guest lecturer at MIT and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Stephen performed master's and Ph.D. research at MIT, where his dissertation focused on load-balancing and resource allocation for massively parallel computing architectures. He also holds an MBA with joint course and thesis work at the [Harvard Business School](/org/harvard-business-school) and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Brobst completed his undergraduate work in electrical engineering and computer science in just three years at [University of California](/org/regents-of-the-university-of-california), Berkeley, and was awarded the highest honor given to a graduating senior in the College of Engineering (Bechtel Engineering Award). Brobst is an elected member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, New York Academy of Sciences, [University of California](/org/regents-of-the-university-of-california), Berkeley Alumni Scholars Association, and the California Scholarship Federation honor societies. He has served as an advisor to the National Academy of Sciences in the area of IT workforce development and also served in Barack Obama’s first term as a member of the President’s Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), a working group of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

Stephen Brobst was ranked the number four U.S. Chief Technology Officer for 2014. ExecRank screened more than 2,500 Chief Technology Officers from among more than 10,000 CTOs in the United States. The top three CTOs named for 2014 hold positions with Amazon.com, Tesla Motors, and Intel®.

Stephen has authored numerous journal and conference papers in the fields of data management and parallel computing environments and is an internationally recognized practitioner in the area of breakthrough systems implementation. He co-authored Building a Data Warehouse for Decision Support, published by Prentice Hall PTR and is working on a book on Active Data Warehousing® for the real-time enterprise. He has published dozens of technical articles in Intelligent Enterprise Magazine, The International Journal of High Speed Computing, Communications of the ACM, The Journal of Data Warehousing, Enterprise Systems Journal, DM Review, Database Programming and Design, and many others. Brobst has been on the faculty of the Data Warehousing Institute since 1996 and teaches courses related to Real-Time Data Warehousing, High Performance Data Warehouse Design, Data Visualization, and Emerging Technologies in Data Warehousing.

Stephen Brobst

Brett Scholder

Cione brings to [Teradata](/org/teradata) more than 25 years of experience in global sales, marketing, channel and operations at large multi-national technology organizations, including most recently at Apple, and previously with Oracle, [Rackspace](/org/rackspace) and Microsoft. He is a results-oriented executive with a proven track record of delivering predictable and profitable growth, and has successfully led organizations through cloud-based transformations. Cione will report to Steve McMillan, President and CEO of [Teradata](/org/teradata).

Todd Cione

Cary Fu is the co-founder of Benchmark Electronics, Inc., an electronics manufacturing and services company.  He served as Chairman of the Board of Benchmark from 2009 until his retirement in December 2012, and was a director of Benchmark from 1990 to 2009. In 2011, Mr. Fu retired as Benchmark’s Chief Executive Officer, a position he had held since 2004. Prior to becoming Chief Executive Officer of Benchmark, he served in a number of senior management positions, including as its President and Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President, Financial Administration. He also serves as a director of Littelfuse, Inc., a global manufacturer of leading technologies in circuit protection, power control and sensing, and is a certified public accountant. He joined our board in 2008.

Cary T. Fu

Kimberly Nelson is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of SPS Commerce, Inc., a provider of cloud-based supply chain management solutions worldwide, since 2007. Previously, she led investor relations and held senior finance positions at Amazon.com. Prior to Amazon, Ms. Nelson held positions in finance management at The Pillsbury Company (now [General Mills](/org/general-mills)) and Nestle's beverage division. Ms. Nelson also serves as a director of Calyxt, Inc. She joined our board in 2019.

Kimberly K. Nelson

Joanne Olsen served as Executive Vice President, Cloud Services and Support at Oracle Corporation from November 2016 until she retired in August 2017. In that role, she drove Oracle’s cloud transformation services and support strategy, partnering with leaders across all business units, leading a team of cloud customer experience experts, covering customer success, implementation success, consulting, support, education, and managed cloud services. She previously served as Senior Vice President and leader of Oracle’s applications sales, alliances, and consulting organizations in North America from 2010 to 2016. Ms. Olsen began her career with IBM, where, over the course of more than three decades, she held a variety of executive management positions across sales, global financing and hardware. She also serves as a director of Ciena Corporation, a global supplier of telecommunications networking equipment, software, and services, and of Keysight Technologies, Inc., a provider of electronic design and test solutions. She joined our board in 2018.

Joanne B. Olsen

Steve McMillan is President and Chief Executive Officer of [Teradata](/org/teradata). With more than two decades of technology experience, Steve is a seasoned executive with a track record of transforming enterprise services and product businesses into industry-leading cloud portfolio offerings.

Steve McMillan

Nicolas Chapman is Teradata’s Chief Strategy Officer (CSO). In this capacity, Nicolas is responsible for working collaboratively across the organization to develop Teradata’s strategic plan, our annual operating plan, and as well as the ongoing measurement and refinement needed to achieve our strategic goals. Additionally, his team ensures that strategic actions are completed to achieve desired results.

In his most recent role as SVP of Strategy at Imperva Inc., an enterprise cyber security software and services company, Nicolas successfully led a team to help transform Imperva into a world-class, highly profitable growth company. Prior to that, Nicolas held leadership roles at McKinsey & Company, helping technology companies around the world execute successful business turnarounds.

During his time with Imperva and McKinsey, Nicolas was actively involved as an executive sponsor for various inclusion communities. Fluent in French, Chinese & Hungarian, Nicolas has a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in International Relations & Economics from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He currently resides in San Francisco.

Nicolas Chapman

Molly Treese serves as Chief Legal Officer for Teradata, and is a member of the Executive Leadership Team.

As Chief Legal Officer, Molly leads Teradata’s global Law Department, overseeing all legal affairs of the company and guiding its Ethics & Compliance function. She additionally serves as Corporate Secretary, responsible for managing the integrity of Teradata’s governance framework and serving as a liaison to Teradata’s Board of Directors and shareholders.

For more than 20 years, Molly has counseled board and executive leadership on strategic corporate initiatives and transactions, regulatory and compliance matters, corporate governance, and commercial contracting. She has provided expert legal counsel to Teradata prior to, during and after its formation as a public company in 2007. Prior to that, Molly held in-house legal positions of increasing responsibility at NCR. She began her career as an attorney in private practice in Washington, DC and New York City.

Molly earned a law degree from the George Washington University Law School, received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of Harvard Business School.

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