What Drives Us
Ask anyone on our team, "Why Splunk?" and the answer is the same. We joined Splunk to be part of a company that is passionate about disrupting the conventional ways people look at and use data. We've brought together the brightest minds from companies like Disney, Infoseek, Apple, Hyperion, Autodesk, Informix, Oracle, Microsoft and SAP to support a common goal—to enable our customers to unleash the power of their machine data.
Executive Team
Godfrey R. Sullivan Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Godfrey R. Sullivan has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors since September 2008, and as our Chairman since December 2011. Prior to joining us, Mr. Sullivan was with Hyperion Solutions Corporation, a performance management software company acquired by Oracle Corporation, from October 2001 to April 2007, where he served in various executive roles, most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors from July 2004 until April 2007.
Mr. Sullivan has served as a member of the board of directors of Citrix Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company, since February 2005 and Informatica Corporation, a data integration software provider, since January 2008. Mr. Sullivan holds a B.B.A. from Baylor University.
Erik M. Swan Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder
Erik M. Swan co-founded our company and has served as our Chief Technology Officer since November 2003 and as a member of our board of directors since October 2003. Prior to joining us, Mr. Swan served as Chief Technology Officer at CommerceFlow, Inc., an information technology and services company, from January 2001 to October 2003. Previously, Mr. Swan served as Vice President of Engineering at Disney Internet Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, from January 2000 to January 2001.
Mr. Swan studied computer science at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Robin K. Das Chief Architect and Co-founder
Robin K. Das co-founded our company and has served as our Chief Architect since January 2005. He also served as our Vice President, Product Development from November 2003 to January 2005 and as a member of our board of directors from October 2003 to August 2004. Previously, Mr. Das has been a large-scale, distributed software architect and engineer for both early-stage ventures and large companies, including Avolent Inc., an application software provider, Lotus Development, a software company, and Sun Microsystems, Inc., a computer systems company.
Mr. Das studied computer science at Indiana University.
Sheren Bouchakian VP Human Resources
Sheren Bouchakian has served as our Vice President, Human Resources since November 2008. Prior to joining us, Ms. Bouchakian served as the Vice President of Human Resources at Jump Associates, a design consulting company, from October 2007 to October 2008. From September 2005 to October 2007, Ms. Bouchakian served as the Vice President of Human Resources at WageWorks Inc., a benefits management company.
Ms. Bouchakian holds a B.S. in Business from Seton Hall University.
David F. Conte Chief Financial Officer
David F. Conte has served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since July 2011. Prior to joining us, Mr. Conte served as Chief Financial Officer at IronKey, Inc., an internet security and privacy company, from June 2009 to July 2011. From October 2007 to May 2009, Mr. Conte was engaged in various personal investing activities. Previously, Mr. Conte served as Chief Financial Officer of Opsware, Inc., a software company, from July 2006 until September 2007 when Opsware was acquired by Hewlett-Packard Company. He also served as Opsware's Vice President of Finance from March 2003 to July 2006 and as Corporate Controller from October 1999 to March 2003. Mr. Conte began his career at Ernst & Young LLP.
Mr. Conte holds a B.A. in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
William B. Gaylord SVP Business and Corporate Development
William B. Gaylord has served as our Senior Vice President, Business and Corporate Development since December 2011, and was our Vice President, Business and Corporate Development from February 2010 to December 2011. Prior to joining us, Mr. Gaylord was engaged as an independent consultant advising software companies and worked on various venture capital fund raising efforts from June 2007 to January 2010. Previously, Mr. Gaylord served as Vice President of Corporate Development at Hyperion Solutions Corporation, a performance management software company, from March 2005 to May 2007 and as its Vice President of Marketing Development from April 2002 to March 2005.
Previously, Bill was vice president of corporate development at Hyperion where he chaired the corporate strategy committee. He was responsible for driving the company's merger and acquisitions efforts, strategic partnerships and equity investments. During his tenure Hyperion completed seven acquisitions that fueled much of the company's growth from $500 million to almost $1 billion in revenues. Prior to Hyperion, Bill held marketing and business development roles at several software start-ups and held various strategy and operations roles at Oracle. He also worked for Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in their capital markets group.
Mr. Gaylord holds an A.B. in History from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
Douglas Harr Chief Information Officer
Douglas Harr has served as our Chief Information Officer since December 2010. Prior to joining us, Mr. Harr was a consulting partner with The StrataFusion Group, Inc., a business consulting and technology services firm, from December 2009 to December 2010. From March 2006 to December 2009, Mr. Harr served as Chief Information Officer at Actian Corporation (formerly Ingres Corporation), an open source database company.
Mr. Harr holds a B.S. in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Lionel Hartmann VP Customer Support and Technical Documentation
Lionel Hartmann has served as our Vice President, Customer Support and Technical Documentation since September 2007. Prior to joining us, Mr. Hartmann served as the Vice President of Technical Support at ArcSight, Inc., a security and compliance management company acquired by Hewlett-Packard Company, from October 2005 to September 2007.
Mr. Hartmann holds an M.S. in Economics and International Studies from Paris I—La Sorbonne University and a Master in Organization and Internal Auditing from the ISGA program at the Business School Group of Marseilles, France.
Robert Lau VP APAC
Robert Lau has served as our Vice President of Asia Pacific since March 2008. Prior to joining us, Mr. Lau was Vice President and General Manager of Asia Pacific operations at ArcSight, where he established a field sales organization across the region and was a member of the executive team that took the company public in 2008. In addition, Mr. Lau was Vice President of Asia Pacific for Portal Software, where he successfully built out operations, exceeded revenue targets, and helped lead the company to a successful IPO. Mr. Lau began his career as a research engineer at LSI Logic in Milpitas, California.
Mr. Lau holds degrees from Texas A&M University, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University.
James Murray General Manager/VP EMEA
James Murray has served as our General Manager/Vice President of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) since March 2012. Prior to joining us, Mr. Murray spent 12 years with Interwoven, which was acquired by Autonomy (since acquired by HP). From January 2000 to February 2012, Mr. Murray held a number of roles at Interwoven and Autonomy, including: UK sales director, vice president sales EMEA, vice president APAC. Most recently, Murray was senior vice president of Autonomy's Promote Division EMEA (focused on digital marketing) and CEO for Virage Worldwide, the rich media and broadcast monitoring division of Autonomy HP.
Before joining Interwoven, Mr. Murray was a sales manager for Comshare (acquired by JDA Software) from 1997 to 2000, where he had European and North American responsibilities. In 1996, he spent a year as a sales executive with Intuitive Systems. Prior to that he was with Accenture for five years, initially as an IT consultant in their financial services division and latterly as a business development manager in their business process outsourcing practice.
Mr. Murray holds an honors degree in business from the University of Aston, Birmingham and graduated in 1990.
Christina F.R.L. Noren SVP Solutions
Christina F.R.L. Noren has served as our Senior Vice President, Solutions since May 2010. She served as our Vice President, Product Management from April 2005 to May 2010. Prior to joining us, Ms. Noren served as Vice President, Product Management at SenSage, Inc. (formerly Addamark Technologies, Inc.), a security intelligence and event management provider, from May 2003 to March 2005 and as its Senior Director, Systems Consulting from January 2002 to May 2003.
Ms. Noren holds a B.A. in International Business and a B.F.A. in Art from Dominican University of California.
Thomas E. Schodorf SVP of Field Operations
Thomas E. Schodorf has served as our Senior Vice President, Field Operations since October 2009. Prior to joining us, Mr. Schodorf was a consultant to computer software companies from November 2008 to October 2009. Mr. Schodorf was with BMC Software, Inc., a software company, from July 1991 to October 2008, where he served in various sales positions, most recently as Vice President, General Manager from December 2007 to October 2008.
Mr. Schodorf holds a B.S.B.A. in Finance from Ohio State University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Dayton.
Guido Schroeder SVP of Products
Guido Schroeder has served as our Senior Vice President, Products since April 2012. Prior to joining us, Dr. Schroeder was with SAP Labs, an enterprise application software company, where he served as Senior Vice President Development, Technology Innovation Platform BI from 2008 to 2012, as Vice President Development, SAP NetWeaver BI Client Suite from 2007 to 2008, as Vice President Development Suite Optimization Analytics from 2006 to 2007, as Vice President Development, SAP NetWeaver Imagineering from 2004 to 2006 and as Director Development, BI Advanced Technologies from 2000 to 2004.
Mr. Schroeder holds a M.Sc and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Kiel (Germany).
Steve Sommer Chief Marketing Officer
Steven R. Sommer joined our company in June 2008 and serves as our Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President, Marketing. Prior to joining us, Mr. Sommer served as Vice President, Marketing at WideOrbit Inc., a software company, from December 2007 to May 2008. From November 2006 to August 2007, Mr. Sommer served as Vice President Global Marketing at SuccessFactors, Inc., a business execution software company.
Mr. Sommer holds B.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Leonard R. Stein SVP General Counsel
Leonard R. Stein has served as our Senior Vice President, General Counsel since April 2011. Prior to joining us, Mr. Stein served in various executive positions including President and Chief Legal Officer at Jackson Family Enterprises, Inc., a luxury wine maker, from May 2004 to August 2010. From August 2010 through April 2011, Mr. Stein served as a board advisor to two private companies and as an independent consultant. Mr. Stein served as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Compliance Officer at Overture Services, Inc., an internet commercial search services company, from April 2003 until it was acquired by Yahoo! Inc., in October 2003.
Mr. Stein holds a B.A. in economics from Yale College, an M.A. in economics from Yale University Graduate School and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Board of Directors
John G. Connors General Partner, Ignition Partners
John G. Connors has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2007. Since May 2005, Mr. Connors has been a partner at Ignition Partners, LLC, a venture capital firm. Prior to joining Ignition Partners, Mr. Connors served in various management positions at Microsoft Corporation from January 1989 to January 2005, including most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from December 1999 to January 2005. Mr. Connors has served as a member of the board of directors of NIKE, Inc. since April 2005.
Mr. Connors holds a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Montana.
David Hornik General Partner, August Capital
David M. Hornik has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2004. Since June 2000, Mr. Hornik has been a partner at August Capital, a venture capital firm. Prior to joining August Capital, Mr. Hornik was an intellectual property and corporate attorney at the law firms of Venture Law Group and Perkins Coie LLP, and a litigator at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP.
Mr. Hornik holds A.B. degrees in Computer Music and Political Science from Stanford University, an M.Phil in Criminology from Cambridge University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Thomas M. Neustaetter Partner, JK&B Capital
Thomas M. Neustaetter has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2010. Since March 1999, Mr. Neustaetter has been a Managing Director at JK&B Capital, a venture capital firm. Prior to joining JK&B Capital, Mr. Neustaetter was a partner at The Chatterjee Group, an affiliate of Soros Fund Management, from January 1996 to February 1999.
Mr. Neustaetter holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. and M.S. in Information Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Graham V. Smith Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Salesforce.com
Graham V. Smith has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2011. Since March 2008, Mr. Smith has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at salesforce.com, inc., a provider of enterprise cloud computing software. He also served as salesforce.com's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Designate from December 2007 to March 2008. Prior to joining salesforce.com, Mr. Smith served as Chief Financial Officer at Advent Software Inc., a software company, from January 2003 to December 2007.
Mr. Smith holds a B.Sc. in Economics and Politics from Bristol University in England.
Nick Sturiale General Partner, Jafco Ventures
Nicholas G. Sturiale has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2004. Since March 2009, Mr. Sturiale has served as a general partner at Jafco Ventures, a venture capital firm. Prior to joining Jafco Ventures, Mr. Sturiale served as a managing director at The Carlyle Group, a global alternative asset management firm, from January 2008 to December 2008. From June 2000 to January 2008, Mr. Sturiale served as a General Partner at Sevin Rosen Funds, a venture capital firm. Mr. Sturiale remains a Partner with Sevin Rosen Funds and an officer and director of Sevin Rosen Bayless Management Company, an affiliate of Sevin Rosen Funds.
Mr. Sturiale holds a B.S. in Economics from California State University, Chico and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Godfrey R. Sullivan Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Godfrey R. Sullivan has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors since September 2008, and as our Chairman since December 2011. Prior to joining us, Mr. Sullivan was with Hyperion Solutions Corporation, a performance management software company acquired by Oracle Corporation, from October 2001 to April 2007, where he served in various executive roles, most recently as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the board of directors from July 2004 until April 2007.
Mr. Sullivan has served as a member of the board of directors of Citrix Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company, since February 2005 and Informatica Corporation, a data integration software provider, since January 2008. Mr. Sullivan holds a B.B.A. from Baylor University.
Erik M. Swan Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder
Erik M. Swan co-founded our company and has served as our Chief Technology Officer since November 2003 and as a member of our board of directors since October 2003. Prior to joining us, Mr. Swan served as Chief Technology Officer at CommerceFlow, Inc., an information technology and services company, from January 2001 to October 2003. Previously, Mr. Swan served as Vice President of Engineering at Disney Internet Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, from January 2000 to January 2001.
Mr. Swan studied computer science at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Investors
Splunk's investors include August Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, JK&B Capital, and Ignition Partners.

