We're Crazy About IT Search

Michael is an unconventional chief executive with revolutionary ideas. He co-founded Splunk in 2004 with two friends and an ambition to assist humans in the battle against increasing IT complexity and the onslaught of machine generated data. Under his leadership, Splunk has quickly grown from a geeky idea to a disruptive, fast growing company and an amazing place to work. In just 24 months the company has delivered immediate benefit to more than 500 enterprises, service providers and government organizations and more than 175,000 users around the world.

Michael is also co-founder of Collation, acquired by IBM's Tivoli Group, Arthas, acquired by Yahoo, 280, acquired by Infoseek and Reality Online, acquired by Reuters. He was a software engineer at IBM’s Silicon Valley Laboratory and a member of the original IBM PC development team. Michael has a B.S. in Computer Science from Drexel University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton Business School. He pontificates and speaks regularly about the intersection of humans and complex IT systems.

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Erik is Splunk's chief product innovator. With a "by the people, for the people" approach, Erik and his team build software they want to use. Not big, complex products, and not stripped down tools either. His approach to product development is to trust autonomous teams of really smart people to deliver amazing innovations in an iterative, open environment. It’s Splunk’s version of agile and the foundation of great technology and a great place to work.

Before Splunk, Erik co-founded several successful start-ups and has held executive engineering and operations roles at companies including Apple Computer, Walt Disney Company, Taligent and InfoSeek. He has a long history of building teams and bringing to market a broad range of software and services products. He holds inventor credits on seven U.S. patents.

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Rob is the man behind the Splunk architecture. He is obsessed with the challenge of indexing and searching machine generated data on a massive scale. Responsible for keeping Splunk’s software foundation open, consistent, extensible and massively scalable, he will be happy with nothing less than Splunk indexing data from every machine in your data center.

Rob has been a large-scale, distributed software architect and engineer in early-stage ventures and large companies for more than two decades at Avolent, Data Broadcasting, Lotus, Sun Microsystems and Taligent. His expertise includes high performance and high availability server architecture and implementation, financial transaction interfaces, information search and retrieval and network file systems. He is an inventor on several U.S. patents.

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Frank is the creator of Splunk's customer and partner success stories. He is building and motivating an over-achieving sales team that customers want to work with. The unique dynamics of Splunk's potential to help customers across a broad range of data center challenges brings Frank a sky’s-the-limit excitement to the work. Frank is driving a worldwide business model focused on quick value and outstanding service combining direct sales, channel partners and OEM relationships.

Frank held positions with technology leaders including Wily Technology, and Mercury Interactive. He has also been the co-founder of several successful start-ups. Frank holds a BSBA in finance from Suffolk University.

Christina is the voice of the customer at Splunk. With a unique approach to blending support and product management into a single team, she's built systems and processes to capture every Splunk user interaction - synthesizing them into interesting problems for engineering to solve. Her dream is that every engineer working on a feature can instantly connect with every customer who needs it.

Christina was group manager responsible for MSN's monitoring infrastructure, but has spent most of her career in product management, support and services leadership. She was a key early employee at SenSage, Portal Software and Sonic Solutions. She was co-founder and information architect for Artloop. Christina holds a B.A. in International Finance and Economics and a B.F.A. from the Dominican University of California.

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Lionel brings a holistic approach to Splunk Support. Looking beyond the trouble ticket symptom, his team goes further to understand what’s not immediately visible – doing the triage, but searching for the root cause. The customer wants their problem solved. His goal is solve it and have an impact – large or small – that provides a connection.

Lionel was VP of Technical Support at Arcsight where he achieved significant customer satisfaction gains with a focus on performance driven models. While with Siebel Systems and Business Objects in the US and in France, he was the global resource for tech support, guiding and coaching engineers worldwide. Lionel holds a masters in Business Administration and Management from the business School Group of Marseilles, as well as a masters degree in Economics from the University of Paris La Sorbonne.

Pervaiz is Splunk's OEM and technology partner evangelist working incessantly to spread the Splunk IT Search religion to data centers everywhere. Throughout his career, Pervaiz's technical expertise has helped him pioneer the licensing of disruptive technology to the channel. Pervaiz is focused on helping partners create a larger market for their own products with the power of IT Search.

Pervaiz brings a breadth of expertise building winning partners from BEA Systems, Sybase and Composite Software. He holds a masters degree in computer engineering from Columbia University and has held senior engineering positions with IBM and Versant Object Technologies.

Jef leads Splunk's user experience design and branding efforts. Essentially, his mission is to crack the UI code - how to design in support of disruptive products. For Jef, the experience has to pass his test: is it simple, yet powerful? Can someone seeing it for the first time figure out how it works? Does it continue to reveal more as the user digs deeper? Whether it’s art, science or just knowing when it's right, it’s Jef's job to bring it together for the user.

Jef has led the design of several products, including Collation's Configuration Management Database (acquired by IBM), Infoseek's suite of community applications, and Avolent's OFX transaction systems. He also has broad experience in the interactive agency world, with key leadership positions at Digitas and Rare Medium where he worked on accounts like Microsoft, Borland and Netscape. Jef holds a BA in Development Studies from Brown University and an MA in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas at Austin.