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CEO
Sudheesh is the CEO of ThoughtSpot. Prior to ThoughtSpot he was President of Nutanix, the leader in enterprise cloud infrastructure. During his tenure at Nutanix, he was responsible for leading the sales organization and helped grow the company from $0 to over $1 billion in revenue and over $9 billion in market capitalization. Sudheesh focuses on building world-class teams of enablers and disruptors who believe that innovation can, and should, happen in every function and at every level. Prior to Nutanix, Sudheesh worked in various field-facing roles for many California startup companies including XIV (an IBM Company), ONStor, Zambeel.
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Ajeet Singh is the co-founder and Executive Chairman at ThoughtSpot, a company revolutionizing analytics with search and AI. Driven by his passion for creation, Ajeet has built two multibillion dollar technology companies from the ground up - ThoughtSpot and Nutanix. Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, he was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix, the leader in the enterprise cloud industry and largest tech IPO of 2016. Prior to Nutanix, Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise technology startups as the Senior Director of Product Management at Aster Data, later acquired by Teradata for $300M. Ajeet has also held business and technical roles at Oracle, where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. Ajeet holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he graduated at the top of his class.
Co-founder and CTO
Amit is Co-founder and CTO at ThoughtSpot and has deep experience in building large scale analytics systems. Prior to ThoughtSpot, Amit led multiple analytics engineering teams in the Google AdSense businesses, contributing $50M+ quarter-on-quarter growth to the business through improving analytical algorithms for AdSense. Prior to that, Amit was a founding engineering in the Bing team at Microsoft, where he implemented the pagerank algorithms for search from scratch. Amit received his PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
Chief Marketing Officer
Scott Holden is the CMO at ThoughtSpot where he is responsible for product marketing, demand generation, content marketing, PR, AR, and events. Prior to ThoughtSpot, Scott spent seven years at Salesforce running a number of marketing teams, including leading marketing for the Salesforce1 Platform, Sales Cloud, Chatter, Industry Marketing, Customer Marketing, and SMB Marketing.
Previously, Scott ran the Transportation & Logistics team at Walmart.com. He began his career at JPMorgan as an M&A investment banker, covering Technology and Healthcare companies.
Scott has an MBA from Stanford University and a BA from Colgate University in economics and philosophy.
Chief Data Strategy Officer
Cindi Howson is the Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot and host of The Data Chief podcast. Cindi is an analytics and BI thought leader and expert with a flair for bridging business needs with technology. As Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot, she advises top clients on data strategy and best practices to becoming data- driven, influences ThoughtSpot’s product strategy, and is the host of The Data Chief podcast. Cindi was previously a Gartner research Vice President, as the lead author for the data and analytics maturity model and analytics and BI Magic Quadrant, and a popular keynote speaker. She introduced new research in data and AI for good, NLP/BI Search, and augmented analytics and brought both the BI bake offs and innovation panels to Gartner globally. She’s rated a top 12 influencer in big data and analytics by Onalytca, Solutions Review, and Humans of Data. Prior to joining Gartner, she was founder of BI Scorecard, a resource for in-depth product reviews based on exclusive hands-on testing, contributor to Information Week, and the author of several books including: Successful Business Intelligence: Unlock the Value of BI & Big Data and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0: The Complete Reference. She served as The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) faculty member for more than a decade. Prior to founding BI Scorecard, Howson was a manager at Deloitte & Touche and a global BI standards leader for Dow Chemical. She has an MBA from Rice University.
Chief Financial Officer
Mohit Daswani is the Chief Financial Officer at ThoughtSpot, where he leads all financial operations as the company continues to rapidly scale. Previously, Daswani was Head of Finance & Strategy at Square, where he oversaw financial and strategic planning across the company during a period in which Square grew revenues three-fold. Prior to Square, Daswani was CFO of the Payments, Risk and Technology businesses at PayPal.
Chief Development Officer
Sumeet Arora is the Chief Development Officer at ThoughtSpot. Arora leads ThoughtSpot’s global Engineering and Product teams in continuously improving and scaling the AI-powered data analytics platform. Prior to joining ThoughtSpot, Sumeet served as SVP and GM of Service Provider Networking at Cisco. In this role, he led the Engineering & Product management team for the Service Provider routing portfolio and was responsible for driving profitable market share growth of this multi-billion dollar business.
SVP Worldwide Sales
Having joined ThoughtSpot in 2019 to run EMEA, Spencer recently assumed the role of SVP, Worldwide Sales. Spencer came to ThoughtSpot from AppDynamics, where he was hired as one of the first sales folks in the East Coast. He spent more than 6 years helping to grow the organization, which ultimately led to a $3.8B acquisition from Cisco in March of 2017. During his last year at AppDynamics, Spencer oversaw the largest team worldwide, contributing over $200m in total revenue.
Prior to AppDynamics, Spencer was an account executive at BMC Software and, earlier, at Coradiant: a start-up that was acquired by BMC.
Spencer earned his BA from the University of Vermont and resides in New Jersey with his family.
SVP Business Development
Seann Gardiner is the SVP of Business Development at ThoughtSpot. In his role Gardiner focused on accelerating ThoughtSpot’s partnerships with technology partners, Cloud service providers, Channel and SI partners. He also holds responsibility for GTM activities for ThoughtSpot's Cloud and Embedded Analytics (ThoughtSpot Everywhere). He was previously EVP of Business Development & Industry GTM at DataRobot and SVP of Business Development at Alteryx.
SVP Customer Success & Business Value Consulting
Seong Park is the SVP of Customer Success & Services at ThoughtSpot: Park leads ThoughtSpot’s global Customer Success, Professional Services and Business Value Consulting teams to help organizations get the most value from search and AI-driven analytics. He was most recently at MongoDB, where he built out key technical presales, product strategy, marketing and business value consulting teams and played an instrumental role in growing revenue from $30 million to $300+ million.
SVP Corporate Marketing
Emma Robinson leads corporate marketing at ThoughtSpot, where she is responsible for scaling global partner marketing, field marketing, and Beyond, ThoughtSpot's annual customer conference. Emma has over 20 years of B2B marketing experience with high-tech organizations, including Medallia, Google Cloud, Salesforce, and Compuware, both in Asia Pacific and US roles.
Emma has a BSc.(Hons) in Management Science from the University of Manchester's Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST) in the UK, and has completed an Executive Development Program at INSEAD, Singapore.
SVP Design & Experience
Bob Baxley is the SVP of Design & Experience at ThoughtSpot. He focuses on building and leading design processes and practices to deliver innovative product experiences for customers that blend consumer quality UX with deep technical capabilities. Previously, Baxley has held executive design leadership roles at Apple, Pinterest and Yahoo!, where he and his teams designed products and experiences impacting hundreds of millions of users around the world.
SVP Product Management
VP, People
Pam Holmberg is the Head of People at ThoughtSpot. She is responsible for recruiting, HR operations, business partnering and employee engagement. She brings over twenty years of diverse HR experience. Prior to joining ThoughtSpot, Pam was the Head of People at realtor.com. Before that she was at Veritas Technologies where she was Vice President of HR supporting the global Product organization. Pam has worked for several top technology companies over the past twenty years, primarily as an HR Business Partner. Pam received her Bachelor of Arts from Mount St. Mary’s College.
Corporate Controller
Raquel Peasley is the Corporate Controller at ThoughtSpot. Raquel leads the global accounting, equity, revenue, OTC, P2P and accounting systems functions. She has over 20 years of experience with public and private high-tech organizations in Silicon Valley, including Saba, Rambus and Oak Technology.
Raquel is a Certified Public Accountant in California and has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business/Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
General Counsel
As General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Matthew oversees ThoughtSpot's global legal affairs and compliance operations. He joins ThoughtSpot from ServiceNow, where he served as Vice President and Global Compliance Officer and helped to scale the legal and compliance functions from IPO to $1B in annual revenue. Matthew began his legal career as a litigator with a law firm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Matthew holds a Juris Doctorate from Santa Clara University and a Bachelor of Arts in American History and Political Science from the University of Southern California.
SVP User Growth & Embedded Analytics
Ken is the SVP of User Growth and Embedded Analytics at ThoughtSpot. Previously, he led the centralized User Growth and Analysis team at Google, where he’s focused on increasing user acquisition, engagement and retention across all Google products and services. His team works with product teams across Google, providing analysis, best practices, tools, and services to optimize products and marketing campaigns for growth.
Prior to Google, Ken built the Analytics organization at Facebook, which included both the data scientist teams and the data engineering teams. He led the organization to deliver high impact analyses across all Facebook products to optimize Facebook’s products and overall business.
Before Facebook, Ken was the VP of Analytics and Platform Technologies at Zynga, helping Zynga to become known for excellence in analytics, and helping to build the foundation for one of the world’s largest social gaming platforms.
Co-founder and VP of Engineering
Sanjay is Co-founder and Principal Engineer at ThoughtSpot. Prior to ThoughtSpot, at Google he worked on the low latency, high throughput ads database. Sanjay has worked on query optimization in the cloud and automatic SQL tuning for SQL server while at Microsoft.
Sanjay has a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
VP Demand Gen & Operations
At ThoughtSpot, Kaushik leads demand generation, marketing ops and is responsible for architecting and building the marketing and sales tech stack from the ground up.
Prior to ThoughtSpot, as the first marketing hire at Blue Jeans, Kaushik, in a similar role built the demand gen engine and marketing infrastructure and helped deliver bookings growth from 0 to $50m+ in less than 4 years.
VP Product Marketing
Sean Zinsmeister leads Product Marketing at ThoughtSpot, where he is responsible for creating the messaging and go-to-market strategy for ThoughtSpot's Search & AI-driven analytics platform.
Prior to joining ThoughtSpot, he led Product Marketing at Infer, the leading AI and predictive analytics platform for Enterprise Sales & Marketing teams, through the company’s successful acquisition in 2017. He’s widely regarded as a thought leader in data, analytics, and AI, with his works appearing in publications like VentureBeat, Forbes, Information Age, and more.
Sean holds advanced degrees from Suffolk Sawyer School of Business and Northeastern in strategic marketing and project management, respectively.
VP Sales, North America
Ryan Heinig is the VP of Sales for North America. Heinig leads ThoughtSpot’s largest region, where he helps prospects and customers unlock transformative value from their data through search and AI-driven analytics. Heinig joined ThoughtSpot in 2018 from AppDynamics, where he lead the GTM team for the East Coast. Heinig has spent more than a decade in the BI & Analytics space prior to AppDynamics. During his 5 year tenure at Qlik, Heinig held multiple positions, including Commercial Sales Leader for North America.
VP Customer Success, Americas
Angela is the VP of Customer Success leading the Americas. She is an expert at guiding technical organizations through, from strategy and thought leadership, to support and account management. She pulls upon her systems engineering, marketing and sales experiences at ThoughtSpot to elevate her team and customers. Before joining in 2016, Angela served as the Global Sales Engineering Leader at Datameer and was a customer success/sales engineering leader at Platfora, IBM, and independent start up consulting firms. Angela has a BBA from the University of Notre Dame in Information Systems and serves on the University Advisory Board helping to shape the curriculum and talent pool coming into our Analytics Industry.
VP Sales Engineering, EMEA
VP Engineering
VP, Professional Services
Ankan Jain is the VP of Professional Services at ThoughtSpot. Ankan is an expert in building the professional services teams and offerings that enable faster on-boarding and enablement so organizations can accelerate their customer journey and value realization from search and AI-driven analytics. Before to joining ThoughtSpot in 2018, Ankan lead the North America Professional Services organization at Birst (Infor) – cloud analytics SaaS platform. Prior to that, Ankan lead the MicroStrategy's Professional Services organization for the East region.
VP Engineering
Vikram Seth leads the Systems Reliability Engineering (SRE) team at ThoughtSpot, where he is is responsible for customer support and manufacturing operations. As one of the earliest employees at ThoughtSpot, Vikram has held engineering, sales and operations roles before his role building and leading the SRE team.
Prior to ThoughtSpot, Vikram worked at Facebook, where he helped build the first Facebook designed servers that led to the Open Compute Project (OCP), as well as optimize the company’s data center to reduce total cost of owenership. He has also held eASIC design and platform engineering roles at NVIDIA and Texas Instruments.
Vikram has a M.S. in Computer Engineering from Texas A&M University at College Station, and B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Kanpur.
Country Manager, Japan
Keizo Arinobu is the Country Manager for ThoughtSpot Japan. In this role, Arinobu leads all business functions and operations for ThoughtSpot in Japan, including sales, marketing, partnerships, and alliances, and working with Japanese enterprises to expand their use of search and AI-driven analytics. Previously, Arinobu led growth efforts for MongoDB in Japan, was the Country Manager for Talend Japan, and was the EVP of Sales and Marketing for WingArc.
CEO
Sudheesh is the CEO of ThoughtSpot. Prior to ThoughtSpot he was President of Nutanix, the leader in enterprise cloud infrastructure. During his tenure at Nutanix, he was responsible for leading the sales organization and helped grow the company from $0 to over $1 billion in revenue and over $9 billion in market capitalization. Sudheesh focuses on building world-class teams of enablers and disruptors who believe that innovation can, and should, happen in every function and at every level. Prior to Nutanix, Sudheesh worked in various field-facing roles for many California startup companies including XIV (an IBM Company), ONStor, Zambeel.
Co-founder and Executive Chairman
Ajeet Singh is the co-founder and Executive Chairman at ThoughtSpot, a company revolutionizing analytics with search and AI. Driven by his passion for creation, Ajeet has built two multibillion dollar technology companies from the ground up - ThoughtSpot and Nutanix. Prior to starting ThoughtSpot, he was co-founder and Chief Products Officer at Nutanix, the leader in the enterprise cloud industry and largest tech IPO of 2016. Prior to Nutanix, Ajeet learned the ropes of enterprise technology startups as the Senior Director of Product Management at Aster Data, later acquired by Teradata for $300M. Ajeet has also held business and technical roles at Oracle, where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. Ajeet holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he graduated at the top of his class.
Partner and Co-founder, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Ravi is a founding partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and plays a global leadership role at the firm today. He has over 25 years of venture capital experience. Before starting Lightspeed, Ravi spent time in the technology industry at Silicon Valley Graphics, where he ran developer relations for the engineering workstation division. Previously, Ravi spent time in management consulting with Booz Allen Hamilton. He has served on the board of directors for WAVC (Western Association of Venture Capitalists) and The Indus Entrepreneurs Group (TiE) in Silicon Valley and has been recognized multiple times as a top dealmaker on Forbes’ annual VC Midas List. Ravi holds a BS in electrical engineering, a BA in economics, and an MBA from Stanford University.
Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Arif Janmohamed joined Lightspeed in 2008 and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of cloud and datacenter technologies, as well as enterprise mobile and SaaS solutions. Prior to joining Lightspeed, he worked in the Corporate Business Development group at Cisco Systems. Before joining Cisco, he was with Novitas Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. Earlier in his career, he worked in technical development and product management roles at WebTV, Andes Networks, and Sun Microsystems. Arif holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Managing Director, General Catalyst
Quentin Clark, managing director at venture capital firm General Catalyst., focuses on investing in enterprise software focused on transforming the workplace and healthcare, such as Range, Sprout and other stealth startups. He is on the boards of Coda, Commure, Kernel, Minio, and ThoughtSpot. Prior to joining GC, Quentin was CTO at Dropbox (NASDAQ: DBX), where he led the company’s engineering, product, design, and growth teams. Prior to Dropbox, he was CTO at SAP, and previously spent two decades with Microsoft leading the entire family of data products. Outside of the office, he and his family love to hike and ski, play games, and travel. Quentin received a BS at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Partner and Managing Director, Khosla Ventures
Sven is a Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, and led the firm’s investments in Berkshire Grey, GitLab, and Rocket Lab, among others. An engineer at heart, Sven is passionate about technologies that forge new industries and enable novel user experiences. Sven spent six years at Mohr Davidow Ventures where he led technical diligence for the infrastructure IT and sustainability practices. He also worked with the firm’s companies, recruiting technical talent, running product-market fit experiments and crafting fundraising strategies. Previously, Sven was a project manager for the Electronics Research Lab of Volkswagen, where he led technical projects for Volkswagen brands ranging from LED front lighting, electro chromic glass, and driver assistance systems and robotics. Sven also served as lead engineer and project lead for the Stanford racing team’s autonomous car, Stanley, which went on to win the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Now on display at the Smithsonian Museum, Stanley became the foundation for the Google self-driving car project. He also co-founded AI company Metamind and served as CEO. Metamind is now part of Salesforce and a key component of Salesforce Einstein.
Sven sits on the boards of numerous companies, including Berkshire Grey, Fulfil, Openwater, Rocket Lab, Velo3D, Vicarious, Voyage, and Uhnder.
COO, ZScaler
Lane Bess serves as ZScaler's Chief Operating Officer. He has more than 30 years of security expertise as an operational executive, including global sales, marketing and leadership experience with NCR Corporation and AT&T. From 2008 to 2011,he served as President and CEO, Palo Alto Networks, a network security company, where he led its pre-IPO fundraising and grew its revenue run rate to more than $200M and cash flow positive. From 2002 to 2007, he served as EVP of Worldwide Sales and General Manager, Trend Micro, a global leader in Internet security, where he grew worldwide revenues to more than $1B. Lane has extensive experience in building technology businesses in the Europe, Asia Pacific and Japan as well as other International regions. He earned his MBA from the University of Dayton and his BS in Managerial Economics from Carnegie Mellon University.
President & CEO, ServiceNow
Frank Slootman serves as ServiceNow's President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director. Prior to this, Frank served as a partner with Greylock Partners from January 2011 to April 2011, and served as an advisor to EMC Corporation from January 2011 to February 2012. From July 2009 to January 2011, he served as President of the Backup Recovery Systems Division at EMC. From July 2003 to July 2009, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Data Domain, Inc., which was acquired by EMC in 2009.
Prior to joining Data Domain, Frank served as an executive at Borland Software Corporation from June 2000 to June 2003. From March 1993 to June 2000, he held consecutive general management positions for two enterprise software divisions of Compuware Corporation. Frank holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics from the Netherlands School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Co-founder and CEO, Box
Aaron Levie is Co-founder and CEO of Box, which he launched in 2005 with co-founder and CFO Dylan Smith. Levie is the visionary behind Box's product and platform strategy, which is focused on incorporating the best of traditional content management with an easy to use user experience suited to the way people collaborate and work today. Levie leads the company in its mission to help businesses of all sizes be more productive, competitive and collaborative by connecting people and their most important information. Aaron studied at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California before leaving to found Box.
Managing Director, Leslie Ventures
Mark Leslie is currently the managing director of Leslie Ventures, a private investment company. He is also a Lecturer in Management at Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches courses in Entrepreneurship, Ethics and Sales Organization.
Mark Leslie was the founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas Software. From 1980 until 1990 he served as president and chief executive officer of two Silicon Valley high- tech start up companies. Prior experience included sales management, sales executive, systems engineer, and software engineer. Mark Leslie designed and developed the first software hypervisor while employed at IBM in 1969. Mark currently serves on the boards of a number of privately held high-technology corporations, including Librato, Liquid Robotics, Model N Software, PureStorage, SeaMicro Systems, Skybox Imaging, Sugar CRM, Wall Street Systems and Xsigo Corporation. In addition he serves on the board of Overseers for the NYU Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as Chairman of the NYU Science Advisory Board, and as a member of the Executive Board of the NYU Innovation Fund.
Mark received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physics and mathematics from New York University in 1966 and completed Harvard Business School's program for management development in 1980.
Founder and CEO, Nutanix
Dheeraj is a co-founder and CEO of Nutanix. He has over 13 years of experience working at high growth enterprise software companies. Prior to founding Nutanix, Dheeraj was the VP of Engineering at Aster Data (now Teradata), where he helped build the product and its engineering team ground up. At Oracle, he managed the storage engine group for Oracle Database/Exadata, and co-authored numerous patents in the area of distributed databases. Dheeraj is a Ph.D. dropout from University of Texas (Austin), where he was a Graduate Fellow of CS. He has a BS in CS from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Kanpur), where he was judged the Best All-Rounder Student Among All Graduating Students in All Disciplines.
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