Meet our
leadership team

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.

Amit is a Co-founder of ThoughtSpot and has deep experience in building large-scale analytics systems powered by AI and machine learning. Prior to ThoughtSpot, Amit led multiple ML engineering teams in the Google AdSense business, where the goal was to build some of the world's largest training systems and improve Google's revenue through better prediction models via feature engineering, hyperparameter tuning, and algorithm selection.

Before joining Google, Amit was a founding engineer for the Bing team at Microsoft, where he implemented PageRank-style algorithms and neural networks for search ranking.

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 interviews the industry’s top data and analytics leaders on 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. 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.

Mohit Daswani is the Chief Financial Officer at ThoughtSpot, where he leads the Finance, People, Legal, Facilities and IT teams as the company continues to rapidly scale. Previously, Mohit was Head of Finance and 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, Mohit was CFO of the Payments, Risk and Technology businesses at PayPal during its spin-out from eBay as a stand-alone public company.

Sumeet Arora is the Chief Development Officer at ThoughtSpot where he leads ThoughtSpot’s global Engineering, Product, Design, Growth, and Infosec teams in continuously improving and scaling the AI-powered data analytics platform. Under his leadership, ThoughtSpot brought to market ThoughtSpot SaaS as well as ThoughtSpot Sage, an AI-powered search experience and one of the first applications of LLMs in analytics.

Prior to joining ThoughtSpot, Sumeet served as SVP and GM of Service Provider Networking at Cisco. In this role, he led the Engineering and Product management team for the Service Provider routing portfolio and was responsible for driving profitable market share growth of this multi-billion dollar business.

Jeff Depa is the Chief Revenue Officer at ThoughtSpot where he leads the global go-to-market strategy and execution for a multi-product, multi-segment, multi-channel global business. With over 20 years of experience in the software industry, Jeff has a proven track record of building, scaling, and leading high-performance teams that drive durable hyper-growth at scale.

Prior to ThoughtSpot, Jeff was the CRO at Gainsight where he was responsible for growing and driving the global GTM organization across all segments, geographies and channels. Depa spearheaded Gainsight’s record growth across existing and new markets, including entry into APJ and the integration of acquisitions that broadened its product portfolio. Earlier in his career, Jeff spent 5 years as the CRO at Lucidworks and held leadership positions at Datastax, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

Gaurav Rewari is the Chief Technology Officer at ThoughtSpot, having joined through the acquisition of Mode Analytics where he was CEO. Gaurav is a proven industry leader with more than two decades of expertise in business analytics spanning pre-revenue startup to multi-billion dollar public companies. In his role as CTO, Gaurav works closely with product management and engineering teams to define the product vision and roadmap. He also identifies and develops close strategic opportunities to continue ThoughtSpot’s growth.

Gaurav is a veteran of Microstrategy, Oracle, and his own startups. As the first product manager at MicroStrategy, Gaurav was part of an executive management team that launched some of the BI industry’s category-defining products and helped grow MicroStrategy from single digit millions in revenue through IPO and beyond. He also served as VP of Product Management at Oracle for its $2.5 billion analytics business that included the Hyperion, Oracle Business Intelligence, and Siebel Analytics product lines. A co-founder of two leading SaaS analytics startups, he was CTO & GM at Digital.ai, a global enterprise DevOps and VSM platform provider, that he joined via its acquisition of Numerify, a venture-backed cloud AIOps leader, where he was Co-Founder and CEO.

Srikant Gokulnatha is a product executive and thought leader with a proven track record of success in enterprise software. He currently serves as Chief Analytics and Information Officer at ThoughtSpot, having joined the leadership team from Mode Analytics, where he previously served as Chief Operating Officer. In his role as CAIO, Srikant is responsible for effective use of analytics and technology systems within the company and preparing ThoughtSpot for continued scale.

Before ThoughtSpot and Mode, Srikant served as Senior Vice President of Product at Digital.ai, where he was responsible for the company’s Value Stream Management platform. Prior to that, he co-founded business analytics startup, Numerify (funded by Sequoia and LSVP) and led engineering, product marketing and strategy at Oracle, Hyperion Solutions and MicroStrategy.

Benn Stancil is ThoughtSpot’s Field CTO. He joined ThoughtSpot in 2023 as part of its acquisition of Mode, where he was a Co-Founder and CTO. While at Mode, Benn held roles leading Mode’s data, product, marketing, and executive teams. He regularly writes about data and technology at benn.substack.com. Prior to founding Mode, Benn worked on analytics teams at Microsoft and Yammer.

Emma Robinson leads global marketing at ThoughtSpot and brings over two decades of B2B marketing expertise. She oversees business operations, communications, PR, product marketing, growth, field and partner marketing, and the annual Beyond user conference. Emma has a proven track record of scaling marketing impact. During her tenure as head of Corporate Marketing for ThoughtSpot, Emma grew pipeline by 70% and expanded Beyond attendance by more than 185%. Emma's extensive background includes leadership roles at Google Cloud, Salesforce, and Medallia spanning Asia Pacific, EMEA, and North America.

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.

At ThoughtSpot, Kaushik leads the business operations teams (marketing and sales ops, GTM technology stack and development, data operations, customer success ops, digital & web ops) and is responsible in making the go-to-market team more productive and efficient by architecting and building scalable and easy-to-use systems and processes.

Prior to ThoughtSpot, as the first marketing hire at Blue Jeans, Kaushik, in a similar role built the demand gen engine and sales & marketing infrastructure and helped deliver ARR growth from 0 to $50m+ in less than 4 years.

Kuntal Vahalia has over 20 years of leadership experience in building startups to scale. Prior to ThoughtSpot, Kuntal held Alliances & Channels leadership roles at MuleSoft (A Salesforce Company) for 8 years, where he built and delivered on MuleSoft’s ecosystem vision globally. At MuleSoft, Kuntal delivered industry leading growth through his focus on delivering high growth partner practices, innovative enablement programs and increasing partners services economy. Prior to joining MuleSoft, Kuntal held Consulting leadership roles at Salesforce where he delivered outsized results through his focus on driving stellar Customer outcomes.

Kuntal holds an MBA in Corporate Entrepreneurship from Babson University and lives in San Francisco with his wife and two kids.

Pam Holmberg is the Vice President of People and Places at ThoughtSpot. She is responsible for recruiting, HR operations, business partnering, employee engagement, and oversees the facilities team. She brings more than 20 years of diverse HR experience to her role. 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 held leadership positions for several top technology companies during her career.

Sean Zinsmeister is the VP of Product Marketing at ThoughtSpot, where he is responsible for architecting 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 predictive analytics platform for Enterprise Sales & Marketing teams, through a 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.

Bhargav Addala is the SVP of Product Management at ThoughtSpot, where he is responsible for ThoughtSpot’s global Product Management, Documentation & Training teams driving and scaling the Search & AI-driven analytics platform. Prior to joining ThoughtSpot, he led Product Management at Birst and post acquisition served as VP Product Management at Infor. In these roles, he led Birst’s data platform and embedded analytics efforts and subsequently Infor’s analytics portfolio. Bhargav has an MBA from MIT Sloan, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani.