Splunk
Executives
101Board of Directors
7Splunk Management Team
101 Team Members
Splunk has 101 executives. Splunk's current Founder, Chief Executive Officer is Michael Baum.
Name | Work History | Title | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
Michael Baum | Collation, Yahoo!, DotBank.com, Walt Disney Enterprises, Advent International, and Pensoft | Founder, Chief Executive Officer | Current |
Name | Michael Baum | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Work History | Collation, Yahoo!, DotBank.com, Walt Disney Enterprises, Advent International, and Pensoft | ||||
Title | Founder, Chief Executive Officer | ||||
Status | Current |
Splunk Board of Directors
7 Board of directors
Splunk has 7 board of directors, including David Hornik.
Name | Firm | Work History | Other Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
David Hornik | For more than 25 years, David has helped technology entrepreneurs build transformative businesses. Prior to founding Lobby Capital, he spent 20 years as a general partner at August Capital. David invests in a broad range of software companies, including enterprise application, infrastructure, and SaaS businesses (Splunk, Fastly, GitLab), financial technology companies (Bill.com, WePay, PayNearMe), and consumer services (Evite, Ebates, Popcorn). David has spent the last two decades building technology communities – along with starting the first venture capital blog, VentureBlog, and the first venture capital podcast, VentureCast, David served as the Tech Curator for the TED Conference in Vancouver, co-created and hosted TEDxStanford, and founded and produces the Lobby Confrences. David received Deloitte’s Venture Capitalist of the Year award and has been honored by Forbes Magazine as a member of its Midas List of top Venture Capitalists. David has an eclectic educational background. He received a BA from Stanford in Computer Music, a Masters of Philosophy in Criminology from Cambridge University, and a JD from Harvard Law School. He teaches courses in entrepreneurship and venture capital at Stanford Business School and Harvard Law School, and serves as a VC Partner at the Harvard Business School. David lives in Palo Alto and Chelsea with his wife Pamela and their dog Teddy. He has four grown children. Along with serving on the board of GLAAD, a leading LGBTQ rights organization, David is a commissioner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and is a member of the board of the Stanford Alumni Association. | Splunk | |
Elisa Steele | Elisa Steele was a Board Advisor at Salesforce. | Splunk | |
Godfrey Sullivan | CrowdStrike named Godfrey Sullivan to its board of directors in November 2017. From 2011 to 2019, Mr. Sullivan served as a member of the board of directors of Splunk Inc. and was president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Splunk from 2008 to 2015. During his tenure as CEO, Mr. Sullivan led Splunk’s initial public offering (IPO) as the first big data company to enter the public market, largely hailed as one of the most successful technology IPOs in recent history. Mr. Sullivan brings more than 30 years of technology and business leadership experience including serving as president and CEO of Hyperion Solutions and in senior leadership positions at Autodesk and Apple. Mr. Sullivan serves on the board of directors of GitLab, Inc., a DevOps software company. He previously served on the boards of directors of Marqeta, Inc., a modern card issuing company; Citrix Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company; Informatica Corporation, an enterprise data management company; People.ai, a privately held AI revenue intelligence platform company, and RingCentral, Inc., a provider of cloud-based communications and collaboration solutions. He holds a B.B.A. from Baylor University. | Splunk | |
John Connors | John is a 25-year technology-industry executive veteran. John has been a partner at Ignition since 2005 focusing principally on investments in enterprise software. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, he spent sixteen years at Microsoft in multiple and varied executive roles, including SVP of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of the Worldwide Enterprise Group, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, and Vice President and Corporate Controller. John has led Ignition investments in XenSource (acquired by Citrix), Heroku (acquired by Salesforce.com), Parse (acquired by Facebook), Tier3 (acquired by CenturyLink), Scout Analytics (acquired by ServiceSource), and Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft). John also led Ignition’s investment in Splunk (IPO 2012) and currently serves on the Splunk board as the lead independent director. John’s current Ignition investments include FiREapps, Datasphere, Motif Investing, Chef, Azuqua, Tempered Networks, and Icertis. John was a 16-year board member of Nike (NKE), and 13-year member of Splunk’s Board of Directors. John received his BA in accounting from the University of Montana and was the institution’s 1997 Distinguished Alumni Award winner. | Splunk | |
Richard Whitehead | CTO, Clarus Systems Inc.; VP, Strategic Technologies, Micromuse Inc.; Manager, Technical Support, Spider Systems Ltd. | Splunk |
Name | David Hornik | Elisa Steele | Godfrey Sullivan | John Connors | Richard Whitehead |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Work History | For more than 25 years, David has helped technology entrepreneurs build transformative businesses. Prior to founding Lobby Capital, he spent 20 years as a general partner at August Capital. David invests in a broad range of software companies, including enterprise application, infrastructure, and SaaS businesses (Splunk, Fastly, GitLab), financial technology companies (Bill.com, WePay, PayNearMe), and consumer services (Evite, Ebates, Popcorn). David has spent the last two decades building technology communities – along with starting the first venture capital blog, VentureBlog, and the first venture capital podcast, VentureCast, David served as the Tech Curator for the TED Conference in Vancouver, co-created and hosted TEDxStanford, and founded and produces the Lobby Confrences. David received Deloitte’s Venture Capitalist of the Year award and has been honored by Forbes Magazine as a member of its Midas List of top Venture Capitalists. David has an eclectic educational background. He received a BA from Stanford in Computer Music, a Masters of Philosophy in Criminology from Cambridge University, and a JD from Harvard Law School. He teaches courses in entrepreneurship and venture capital at Stanford Business School and Harvard Law School, and serves as a VC Partner at the Harvard Business School. David lives in Palo Alto and Chelsea with his wife Pamela and their dog Teddy. He has four grown children. Along with serving on the board of GLAAD, a leading LGBTQ rights organization, David is a commissioner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and is a member of the board of the Stanford Alumni Association. | Elisa Steele was a Board Advisor at Salesforce. | CrowdStrike named Godfrey Sullivan to its board of directors in November 2017. From 2011 to 2019, Mr. Sullivan served as a member of the board of directors of Splunk Inc. and was president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Splunk from 2008 to 2015. During his tenure as CEO, Mr. Sullivan led Splunk’s initial public offering (IPO) as the first big data company to enter the public market, largely hailed as one of the most successful technology IPOs in recent history. Mr. Sullivan brings more than 30 years of technology and business leadership experience including serving as president and CEO of Hyperion Solutions and in senior leadership positions at Autodesk and Apple. Mr. Sullivan serves on the board of directors of GitLab, Inc., a DevOps software company. He previously served on the boards of directors of Marqeta, Inc., a modern card issuing company; Citrix Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company; Informatica Corporation, an enterprise data management company; People.ai, a privately held AI revenue intelligence platform company, and RingCentral, Inc., a provider of cloud-based communications and collaboration solutions. He holds a B.B.A. from Baylor University. | John is a 25-year technology-industry executive veteran. John has been a partner at Ignition since 2005 focusing principally on investments in enterprise software. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, he spent sixteen years at Microsoft in multiple and varied executive roles, including SVP of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of the Worldwide Enterprise Group, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, and Vice President and Corporate Controller. John has led Ignition investments in XenSource (acquired by Citrix), Heroku (acquired by Salesforce.com), Parse (acquired by Facebook), Tier3 (acquired by CenturyLink), Scout Analytics (acquired by ServiceSource), and Xamarin (acquired by Microsoft). John also led Ignition’s investment in Splunk (IPO 2012) and currently serves on the Splunk board as the lead independent director. John’s current Ignition investments include FiREapps, Datasphere, Motif Investing, Chef, Azuqua, Tempered Networks, and Icertis. John was a 16-year board member of Nike (NKE), and 13-year member of Splunk’s Board of Directors. John received his BA in accounting from the University of Montana and was the institution’s 1997 Distinguished Alumni Award winner. | CTO, Clarus Systems Inc.; VP, Strategic Technologies, Micromuse Inc.; Manager, Technical Support, Spider Systems Ltd. |
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