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.

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.

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.

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.

Cindi is an analytics and BI expert with 20-plus years’ experience and a flair for bridging business needs with technology. Cindi was previously a Gartner Vice President in data and analytics, lead author of the Analytics and BI Magic Quadrant, data and analytics maturity model, as well as research in data and AI for good, NLP/BI Search, and augmented analytics. She introduced the BI bake-offs and innovation panels at Gartner events globally and is a popular keynote speaker. Prior to this, 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 BI standards leader for Dow Chemical. She has an MBA from Rice University and a BA from the University of Maryland..

Brian is an accomplished executive and leader with progressive sales and leadership experience building and leading talented teams to achieve hyper growth within the enterprise software and information services industry. He currently leads the sales, services and support teams at ThoughtSpot. Brian comes to ThoughtSpot most recently by way of AppDynamics, which was acquired by Cisco, where he was responsible for leading the Americas organization as GVP and from QlikTech where he served as President of the Americas. He graduated from Franciscan University and currently resides outside of Philadelphia, PA with his wife and five children.

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.

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.

Sumeet Arora is the SVP of Engineering at ThoughtSpot. Arora leads ThoughtSpot’s global engineering team 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.

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.

Bob Baxley is the SVP of Design & Experience at ThoughtSpot. He focses 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.

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.

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.

David has 17 years of experience in finance & planning roles. At Thoughtspot, David is responsible for Sales Operations and Business Planning. Prior to ThoughtSpot, David was VP of Corporate Sales at Nutanix, where he was responsible for Sales Operations, Inside Sales, Sales Enablement and Global System Integrators playing a key role in their rapid growth. Prior to Nutanix, David was VP of Business Planning & Operations at Zscaler where he led sales operations & business planning. Prior to that, David was Director of Finance at Palo Alto Networks where he played an instrumental role in building key financial models that helped facilitate the company’s consistent and predictable sales growth. Earlier in his career, David held various finance roles at NetSuite & Intel including playing a key role in the NetSuite IPO. David has a BA degree from the University of California, San Diego and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Seann Gardiner is the SVP of Business Development and General Manager of Embrace at ThoughtSpot. In his role Gardiner focused on accelerating ThoughtSpot’s technology alliances and growing relationships with key technology partners for Embrace, which enables enterprises to run search and AI-driven analytical workloads directly in-databases. He was previously EVP of Business Development & Industry GTM at DataRobot and SVP of Business Development at Alteryx.

Monica McEwen leads ThoughtSpot’s Public Sector team, as well as overseeing the Southeast regions of North America. She has more than 20 years of experience in the analytics and data warehousing space. Prior to joining ThoughtSpot, Monica started Qlik’s Federal practice, where she developed a successful go-to-market strategy and built a high performing team that consistently doubled annual revenue.

Previous to Qlik, Monica spent 11 years with Cognos in a variety of technical, sales, and sales leadership roles. Monica is passionate about helping organizations leverage analytics to drive organizational efficiency. Monica holds a BA in Business Administration from Colby College where she was President of her class for all four years.

Toni Adams leads the Global Partner and Alliances organization at ThoughtSpot, where he is focused on helping create customer, product, and go-to-market value through partnerships and partner channels. This includes overseeing ThoughtSpot’s industry-leading partner ecosystem that includes management consulting firms, consulting and services partners, technology partners, service delivery partners, and solution providers. Before ThoughtSpot, Toni led the Global Partner organizations at Medallia, Qlik, and held senior partnering leadership positions at VMware, Symantec, Altiris, Software AG, and Novell.

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.

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.

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.

Gabe Cavacchioli leads the direct sales teams for the Americas at ThoughtSpot. With more than 30 years experience in the software industry, Gabe is an accomplished leader continuously building and leading talented teams to achieve hyper growth within the enterprise software field. Gabe comes to ThoughtSpot most recently by way of Qlik Technologies after 7 years, where he served as a Leader of Enterprise Sales in North America. Gabe has also held senior sales leadership positions at Dun & Bradstreet and Oracle. Gabe and his family reside in the NY area.

JP Bolen leads the direct sales teams in the Central & Western regions of North America at ThoughtSpot. Over the last ten years, JP has consistently built high performing sales teams at high growth technology companies. Most recently, he served as VP of West at MongoDB, where his team consistently doubled annual bookings over 3 years, helping the company IPO in 2017. JP has held senior sales leadership positions at companies like Dremio, ClearSlide, DynamicOps (acquired by VMWare), and BMC Software, as well as sales roles at BladeLogic (acquired by BMC Software), Aprimo, and  PTC.

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.

Phil Tonachio leads the direct sales teams in the East and Mid-Atlantic regions of North America at ThoughtSpot. With more than 29 years of experience in the software industry, Phil is a highly accomplished sales and growth professional. Most recently, he led the Eastern North American sales team at Pluralsight, where he increased sales by 194%  and helped  pave the path to a successful IPO in 2018. Phil also spent 6 years at Qlik, where he was was recognized as the top global sales representative and global sales leader. Phil has held built world-class sales teams at Oracle, SAP, Concur, and Lawson Software.

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.

Daniel is the Vice President for direct and indirect sales for Western Europe.  Over 20 years he has held senior leadership positions and grown sales and marketing teams in the areas that with his passions for driving employee and consumer change utilising digital technologies.  These included his previous roles at Medallia where he led teams and accounts to have millions of consumers interact with brands and 100,000’s of those brands employees interact directly with the data provided on a daily basis.  Prior to this he has led in mobile marketing start ups, Yahoo mobile in the dawn of the mobile internet and led Motorola UK to achieve record market shares.  

Sunil Mahale is the GM and VP of APJ at ThoughtSpot, where he is responsible for overseeing activities in Asia Pacific and Japan. Sunil is a proven IT professional with 23+ years of experience building high growth teams in  international markets for companies like Nutanix, Hitachi, EMC, and NetApp. He has held leadership roles in multiple functions including sales, managing P&L, marketing, global alliances, and business development. Sunil holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) focused in Computer Engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology.

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.

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.

Candice Locke leads the Sales Enablement team at ThoughtSpot, and is responsible for communicating, training, and educating the global go-to-market organization to maximize every individual’s success. Before joining ThoughtSpot, Candice spent 15+ years building enablement programs and managing small businesses. Most recently, she helped build the go-to-market enablement function for each of Sumo Logic’s different teams.  

Candice holds a B.A. Cultural Anthropology from UC Santa Barbara, and an M.A. Applied Anthropology, which she uses to analyze both qualitative and quantitative data to address complex or hidden business needs.

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.

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.

Ravi Mhatre is a founder of Lightspeed and focuses primarily on software infrastructure, applications and Internet investments. He has fifteen years of venture capital experience and six years of operating experience. Before joining Lightspeed, he was with Bessemer Venture Partners and invested in NetGenesis Software (NTGX), Verio (VRIO), VIA-Networks (VNWI), Webspective Software (acquired by Inktomi) and InCert Software (acquired by Geodesic). Before entering the venture capital industry, he was with Silicon Graphics, where he was a product manager and later directed the company’s workstation market development efforts. 

Previously, Ravi spent time in Lehman Brothers’ technology investment banking group and in management consulting with Booz Allen Hamilton. Ravi began his career as a software engineer at BDIS, a Silicon Valley-based analytical instrument manufacturer. He has served on the Board of Directors for The Indus Entrepreneurs Group (TiE) in Silicon Valley, has been recognized as a Top 100 dealmaker on Forbes’ Annual VC Midas List and has served as a judge for the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Competition. Ravi holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and an MBA from Stanford University.

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.

Hemant Taneja is a managing director at General Catalyst. He joined the firm in 2001 and launched its Silicon Valley office in 2011. Hemant’s investment thesis, known as “economies of unscale,” describes the belief that small, tightly focused companies can leverage web services, datasets, and AI to successfully launch and compete against much larger, more established competitors. His current investment portfolio ranges across several industries and includes companies such as ClassDojo, Color Genomics, Digit, Grammarly, Gusto, Fractyl, Fundbox, Livongo Health, Samsara, Snap, Stripe, ThoughtSpot and TuneIn.

In addition to his investments, Hemant serves on the Stanford School of Medicine Board of Fellows, is the co-founder of Advanced Energy Economy, an organization focused on transforming energy policy in America and is a board member of Khan Lab School, a non-profit educational organization. He teaches a course on A.I., Entrepreneurship and Society at Stanford University and is slated to publish his first book, UNSCALED, that explores topics of technology and society in March 2018.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.