Doug Merritt

Tim Tully

Tim Tully has served as Splunk’s Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer since 2018, and previously joined Splunk as Chief Technology Officer in 2017. Responsible for Splunk’s Product and Technology organization, Tim brings his passion for real-time data analytics, stream processing and consumerized product design to Splunk’s product innovation and long-term roadmap. Before Splunk, Tim spent 14 years in various roles at Yahoo! Inc., including Vice President, Engineering; Distinguished Engineer and Chief Data Architect. He began his career as a Member of Technical Staff at Sun Microsystems on the JavaSoft team and also spent time at several startup companies. As a technologist, Tim is passionate about the intersection of data, design and mobile. As a leader, he believes in organizational transparency and strives to hire “talent magnets,” valuing emotional intelligence as well as traditional intelligence. As a proud nerd, he enjoys coding, building computers and gaming with his kids. Tim frequently advises entrepreneurs, startups and universities, and serves as Vice President of the advisory board for the M.S. in Business Analytics program at Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Tim holds an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. from the University of California, Davis.

Sendur Sellakumar

"Sendur Sellakumar is the Senior Vice President, Cloud and Chief Product Officer of Splunk. Sendur is passionate about delivering a multi-product portfolio — helping customers wherever they are on their business journey to help them bridge data into action. Prior to assuming the Chief Product Officer role in June of 2019, Sendur held various key leadership positions at Splunk, including Senior Vice President and Vice President of Cloud from 2017 to 2019 and Vice President, Corporate Development from 2013 to 2017. Sendur has a rich background in the financial services industry, as well as engineering. Before joining Splunk, he worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. Earlier in his career, Sendur held several engineering roles at enterprise technology companies, including Qualcomm and Autodesk. Sendur holds a B.S. from the University of California, San Diego, an M.B.A. from Cornell University and is based in the Bay Area.

John Sabino

John Sabino is Splunk’s Chief Customer Officer overseeing the Professional Services, Education Services, Support, Best Practices, CSM, and Renewals teams. John joined Splunk in 2017 with over 20 years of experience spanning strategic operations, commercial operations and sales. Most recently, John was the Chief Operating Officer for GE Digital where he was responsible for all commercial strategy, processes, technology and analytics. Prior to his role at GE Digital, John held similar senior executive roles at GE Capital and NBC Universal driving their digital transformation journey. John also served as a captain in the United States Army where he led military operations at the platoon, company, and battalion levels. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a B.S. degree and has an M.B.A from the University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business. John and his family enjoy spending their time outdoors: skiing, hiking, playing lacrosse and horseback riding.

Josh Klahr

Josh is Vice President of Product Management at Splunk, where he is responsible for driving Splunk’s platform product roadmap and strategy. Josh has over 20 years of experience working with data and analytics. He got his start in big data while running product management for one of the largest Data and Analytics operations in the world at Yahoo!, and was subsequently VP of Product Management at Pivotal, where he was responsible for Pivotal’s data products – including Greenplum, Pivotal HD, and HAWQ. Most recently Josh was VP of Product management for AtScale, where he helped grow the company from 5 employees to over 100 and was responsible for product management, documentation, and user experience.

Faya Peng

As Senior Director of Product Management, Faya leads the team responsible for End User Experiences in Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise. Her previous roles at Splunk include leading the Product Marketing team for the IT Markets Group (ITMG) and leading Business Operations and Strategy for ITMG. Prior to Splunk, Faya worked at Cisco Systems in Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development (M&A) roles. Faya holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kia Behnia

Kia Behnia, VP IT Operation Business at Splunk, has 25+ years of industry experience in IT Operations, cloud platforms, enterprise mobility and digital transformation, and most recently served as a board member of PowWow Mobile. Prior to joining PowWow Mobile, he served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at BMC for a decade, where he led strategy for all products including enterprise mobility, datacenter automation and hybrid-cloud management. Mr. Behnia is a frequent industry speaker at industry events and active in participating and leading industry wide initiatives for the adoption of new technologies. Prior to his tenure at Splunk, He was the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for BMC Software. Mr. Behnia was responsible for leading BMC's technology and solution strategy for all products including emerging areas such as social enterprise and mobility management and cloud computing management. In 2011 Mr. Behnia served as one of the commissioners for Tech-America’s cloud2 commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud (CLOUD2). The commission’s three-month mandate is to provide the Obama Administration with recommendations for how government should deploy cloud technologies and for public policies that will help drive U.S. innovation in the cloud. He is also a contributing member of WEF (World Economic Forum) technical advisory. Previously, as BMC's Chief Corporate Architect, Mr. Behnia was responsible for leading the design of BMC's industry-leading Business Service Management architecture and the critical enabling Atrium technologies. Mr. Behnia was previously Chief Technology Officer for the Change and Configuration products at BMC Software; Mr. Behnia is responsible for the direction of product development and product strategy for the Change and Configuration products at BMC including the BMC Atrium CMDB. Mr. Behnia was previously Chief Technology Officer for Marimba Inc. In that role, he led Marimba’s product strategy and technology partnerships. During his tenure at Marimba, Mr. Behnia was instrumental in the design and delivery of Marimba’s innovative configuration automation solutions across servers, client systems and mobile devices. Prior to joining Marimba, Mr. Behnia served as a senior member of the technical team for Tivoli Systems Inc., which was acquired by IBM. Mr. Behnia has 25+ years of industry experience in IT Operations, cloud platforms, enterprise mobility and digital transformation. Mr. Behnia holds a B.A. degree in Computer Science from University of California at Davis.

Kara Gillis

Kara has been at Splunk for four years, previously in product marketing and now focused on developing Splunk products for IT customers. Before Splunk, Kara worked as a strategy and technology consultant at Deloitte in a variety of industries.

Karthik Rau

Karthik Rau, Vice President, Observability at Splunk, oversees the cross-functional strategy and execution of Splunk's application management, monitoring and observability efforts. Most recently, Karthik was the CEO and co-founder of SignalFx, which developed a real-time cloud monitoring and Observability platform for applications and microservices before being acquired by Splunk in October 2019. Previously, Karthik held leadership positions as VP Product Management and Worldwide Marketing at VMware and as VP Products and Engineering at Delphix. Outside of the office, Karthik is a die-hard Lakers fan, music lover and tennis nut.

Sahinaz Safari

Sahinaz Safari is a Senior Product Manager at Splunk. Her first brush with "observability" was during an internship with the BlackBerry Performance Engineering team in 2006. She helped launch the Microservices APM product at SignalFx and currently leads the Microservices APM core product at Splunk. Sahinaz has an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley.

Hema Mohan

As a Director of Product of Management, Hema has been responsible for building and shipping some key features on Splunk Enterprise in the last four years. Previously she has held professional services, presales, and product management roles at CA, Bosch GmBH, BMC, and Sumo Logic.

Albert Biketi

Albert Biketi is the VP of Security Business at Splunk. He is responsible for driving alignment across functions to deliver both strategic and financial Security Business plan at Splunk and acts as a champion for it both internally and externally. He loves security and everything to do with mathematics, and prior to Splunk was VP and General Manager of the Data Security and Encryption business at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He has spent more than 2 decades solving a variety of complex enterprise business problems working in Europe, Africa, and in global roles in the United States. He holds an MBA from Harvard University.

Jane Wong

Jane is VP Products for the Splunk security product portfolio, including Splunk Enterprise Security (SIEM), Splunk Phantom (SOAR), Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UEBA), and several emerging cloud security services that are foundational to the pursuit of Splunk’s disruptive vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable for everyone. At Splunk we are committed to our strong sense of purpose to deliver "aha" moments for our customers based on their data. Jane is passionate about security, and over the past decade has led teams building market-leading products in Email, Network and Endpoint security, as well as Data Loss Prevention. Prior to Splunk she managed the messaging security portfolio of products for Symantec. This included cloud, on premise, Service Provider, and Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) offerings. Jane led a large, globally distributed engineering team, and a core Product Management team who owned the strategy and vision, roadmap, and overall success of the product lines. Email remains the #1 delivery vector for malware, Jane and her team were on the frontlines, battling ransomware, business email compromise, and advanced phishing attacks to better protect customers. Prior to that she focused on network security, pioneering a network risk assessment service that identified active breach or bots within a customer network. Jane frequently attends and speaks at security conferences. She has flown to over twenty countries to deliver security briefings to enterprise customers. She holds four patents, and a BSc from the University of London.