Godfrey is the Chairman and CEO of Splunk, the leader in operational intelligence software used to monitor, report and analyze real-time machine data driving new insights for IT and business customers. Splunk reported FY11 revenues of $67M and has more than 3,300 customers in 75+ countries.

Godfrey has a passion and track record for building great companies. He is a technology veteran who most recently served as President and CEO of Hyperion Solutions, the global leader in the enterprise performance management software category. He is well known for taking Hyperion from $500M in 2001 to revenues of almost $1B in 2007, establishing it as the recognized leader in the EPM segment and for leading the acquisition of Hyperion by Oracle in 2007.

Godfrey believes companies should "win, but win the right way." Splunk has been named as one of the Bay Area's "Best Places to Work" by the San Francisco Business Times for the past four years and one of the Top 25 for 2011. Hyperion was named to Fortune's 100 Best Places to Work in 2004 and to the Forbes 100 Highest Integrity Companies in 2006. Godfrey has pioneered "green workplace" practices including rewarding employees who purchased hybrid cars when he was at Hyperion. This kind of program has since been adopted by many leading companies including Bank of America and Google.

Before Hyperion, Godfrey was the CEO of Promptu Corporation, an enterprise marketing automation software company. Previously, he spent eight years at Autodesk in senior management positions, including president of Autodesk's Discreet division, a $200M digital media unit. Prior to joining Autodesk, Godfrey spent 11 years with Apple heading up business marketing, US channels, and Western US operations.

Godfrey serves on the board of directors of Citrix Systems, Inc., and Informatica Corporation. He received his BBA from Baylor University, and has completed executive programs at Stanford and the Wharton School.

Erik is the chief technology officer and co-founder of Splunk. He is responsible for driving innovative product development and technical strategy. Eric believes in a "by the people, for the people" approach--he and his team build software that works as promised and delivers immediate value and ROI. His product development method is to trust autonomous teams of really smart people to deliver amazing innovations in an iterative, open environment.

Prior to Splunk, Erik served as vice president of engineering and operations for Disney's top Internet properties. Erik has co-founded several successful start-ups and has held executive engineering and operations roles at companies including Apple Computer, Taligent and InfoSeek.

Erik studied computer science at California Polytechnic University and holds inventor credits on seven US patents.

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Rob is the chief architect and co-founder of Splunk. He is responsible for defining the architecture and high-level design of the Company's core products. Rob brings more than two decades of experience to Splunk. He ensures that the Splunk architecture is open, consistent, extensible and scalable. As the man behind the Splunk architecture, Rob is obsessed with the challenge of indexing and searching machine generated data on a massive scale.

Rob has been a large-scale, distributed software architect and engineer for both early-stage ventures and large companies, including 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.

Rob studied computer science at Indiana University and holds inventor credits on several US patents.

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Sheren is the VP of human resources at Splunk. She is responsible for overseeing Splunk's HR strategy, including developing and retaining the Splunk team. Sheren is passionate about people and creating HR teams that foster a culture of employee growth and a great work environment, by keeping the "human" in human resources.

Sheren is a true HR generalist in that her career experience spans all aspects of the HR discipline. Her sweet spot is building HR teams from the ground up, in companies that have experienced tremendous growth. She spent the majority of her career on the East Coast in the financial services industry--with Prebon Yamane (a global institutional brokerage firm), Alliance Capital Management and Jefferson Insurance Group (a subsidiary of the global insurance giant Allianz Insurance). She moved to the West Coast in 2005 and joined WageWorks, a benefits administration company, as the VP of human resources and built an HR team across six sites.

Sheren attended Seton Hall University on a full academic/leadership scholarship where she earned a B.S. degree in business. She is a certified executive and life coach and a member of the Society of Human Resources Management.

David is the chief financial officer at Splunk. He is responsible for financial planning and analysis, accounting, treasury activities and investor relations. David brings a wide range of financial expertise to the Splunk team, with more than 20 years of finance and administration experience at both public and private companies.

Before joining Splunk, David was the chief financial officer at IronKey where he was instrumental in helping the company transition to a true enterprise software model. Prior to IronKey, David held various management positions at Opsware (formerly LoudCloud) including CFO, VP of Finance, director of finance and corporate controller. He played a key role in orchestrating the Company's acquisition by HP for $1.6 billion.

David began his career at Ernst & Young where he was a recognized expert on software revenue recognition. As a certified public accountant, he served as senior manager in the audit and assurance practice, responsible for worldwide service coordination for clients from start-ups to the Fortune 200. David graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a degree in business economics.

Bill is the senior VP of business and corporate development at Splunk. He is responsible for Splunk's partner ecosystem and driving new market opportunities. He oversees the company's technology partnerships; OEM, service provider and systems integrator relationships; and developer programs. He brings a proven track record of building partnerships and developing new markets to drive growth.

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.

Bill holds an B.A. in history from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Doug is the chief information officer at Splunk. He is responsible for the strategic use of technology at the company. Doug and his team serve Splunk's information technology needs using private and public cloud solutions, while managing web functionality and global facilities. Doug oversees an internal Splunk implementation to deliver web analytics, application management, security forensics and operational intelligence for the company at large.

Doug has been leading IT organizations for most of his career, at companies such as Ingres Corporation, Portal Software and Hewlett Packard. The rest of the time he has been in the IT consulting field, focused on delivering enterprise business applications to clients and technology companies like Symantec, VMware and Activision.

Doug holds a B.S. degree in business from Cal Poly, SLO. He is engaged in the CISE CIO consortium, lectures at several local universities and is a faculty member for the CIO Executive Development Program at San Francisco State University.

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Lionel is the VP of customer support and technical documentation at Splunk. Lionel is responsible for overseeing all aspects of global support, ensuring that Splunk products best meet customer business needs.

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--not just doing the triage, but also searching for the root cause.

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 an MBA from the business School Group of Marseilles, as well as a masters degree in economics from the University of Paris La Sorbonne.

Robert is VP of Asia Pacific operations at Splunk. He is responsible for overseeing the APAC sales team, executing sales strategies and establishing strategic partnerships with leading distributors and system integrators in the region.

Prior to joining Splunk, Robert started the Asia Pacific operations at ArcSight, and Portal Software where he successfully built out the operations, exceeded revenue targets and led to a successful IPO. He began his career as research engineer at LSI Logic in Milpitas, California.

Robert holds degrees from Texas A&M University, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University.

Christina is the senior vice president of solutions at Splunk. She is responsible for overseeing the development of Splunk solutions and leading the Splunk development teams in four solution areas: application management, operations, security and compliance. Christina also led the product management team as an early employee at Splunk and has an intimate knowledge of customer experiences and best practices of using Splunk to solve specific use cases.

Before joining Splunk Christina acquired her deep domain expertise as a customer and product leader for innovative log, systems and security management technologies, including group manager for MSN data center monitoring and as VP of product management at Sensage. In addition, Christina was an early employee at Portal Software and Sonic Solutions and co-founder and CEO for Artloop.

Christina holds a B.A. in international finance and economics and a BFA. from the Dominican University of California.

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Tom is the senior VP of field operations at Splunk. He is responsible for all aspects of Splunk's worldwide field organization, including sales and technical personnel. With international leadership experience and a deep understanding of the enterprise software market, Tom positions Splunk to continue its rapid growth and expand its global reach.

Tom's experience includes both domestic and international sales and executive management positions at BMC Software and IBM spanning 26 years. While at BMC, he most recently led the Identify Business Unit including R&D, sales and marketing with full P&L responsibility. Tom has also led BMC Software's Asia-Pacific geography, based in Singapore, and the US commercial division, the largest in the company. Prior to BMC, Tom was a sales executive with IBM for nine years.

Tom is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a degree in business finance and earned an MBA from the University of Dayton.

Steve is the chief marketing officer at Splunk. He is responsible for Splunk's global marketing strategy and is passionate about new, disruptive markets. He has helped build several start-ups that created and marketed innovative software. Steve brings over 20 years of worldwide enterprise software marketing experience to Splunk.

Steve has held a variety of executive marketing positions, including at two companies that successfully went public--Portal Software and ArcSight. At these software start-ups, as well as previously as VP worldwide marketing at Informix, he developed a deep understanding of global marketing in high-growth software companies. Steve also worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co.

Steve holds two B.S. degrees from M.I.T. and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Lenny is the senior vice president and general counsel at Splunk. He is responsible for overseeing all of Splunk's worldwide legal affairs.

Prior to joining Splunk, Lenny held various senior leadership roles, including the president and chief legal officer at Jackson Family Enterprises. As chief legal officer of paid search inventor Overture, Lenny successfully closed Overture's acquisitions of Alta Vista and FAST's web search division and handled Overture's $1.6 billion sale to Yahoo! Previously, Lenny was instrumental in the turnaround of enterprise software and electronic data interchange provider QRS Corporation, the sale of SaaS pioneer buzzsaw to Autodesk and the merger of online travel innovator Preview Travel with Travelocity. Lenny also practiced advertising, antitrust and intellectual property law for 18 years in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco.

Lenny received his B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from Yale and his J.D. from Harvard.