Qlik Announces New CEO
January 11 2018 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Mike Capone Appointed to Accelerate Market
Leadership
Qlik®, a leader in data analytics, today announced that its
board appointed Mike Capone, former COO of Medidata Solutions
(NASDAQ:MDSO), as Qlik’s new CEO. Capone brings a valuable
combination of customer perspective, operational expertise, and
market focus to Qlik. In addition to his extensive experience in
high-growth SaaS companies, Capone possesses first-hand experience
in leveraging the power of data through analytics to transform
businesses and entire industries, giving him the unique background
to lead Qlik’s mission to be a leader in the analytics economy.
“I’ve seen how the smart use of data and analytics can have
transformative effects on an industry, and I am excited to join a
company that enables customers in every industry to re-think what’s
possible,” said Mike Capone, CEO, Qlik. “Data is the currency of
the future and companies who harness it best will differentiate and
excel. With an ongoing investment in augmented intelligence, big
data and the internet of things, coupled with its hybrid-cloud
platform approach, Qlik is uniquely positioned to lead this new
era.”
David Murphy, Qlik’s interim CEO, will return to his prior role
as a board member of Qlik. “I have been fortunate enough to meet
with many of Qlik’s customers during my tenure, and have been
struck by how many talk about the complete transformation that was
enabled through Qlik’s platform,” said Murphy. “I know that Mike
truly understands that, and is the person that can take Qlik to the
next level of leadership.”
“We are excited to have Mike join us on this mission to
accelerate transformation through modern business intelligence
solutions,” said Seth Boro, Qlik board member and a Thoma Bravo
managing partner. “We also want to thank David Murphy for his
interim leadership at the company, his continued service as a board
member, and for acting as a special advisor to Mike in the near
term.”
Most recently, Capone was the COO of Medidata Solutions, a
publicly-traded provider of SaaS analytics solutions to the
healthcare, life sciences and pharma markets. At Medidata he played
a significant role in its product development, data science,
professional services and go-to-market operations. Capone was
instrumental in accelerating Medidata’s strategy to provide a
comprehensive cloud platform that leverages data and analytics to
transform clinical trials.
Prior to Medidata, Capone held multiple senior leadership
positions at ADP, one of the world’s largest B2B cloud services
providers, delivering critical services to over 600,000 companies
and 39 million of their staff members worldwide. These roles
included CIO, Corporate Vice President of Product Development and
SVP & General Manager of ADP’s global outsourcing business.
Capone brings this unique customer perspective to Qlik, along with
the expertise in scaling the IT operations of a major cloud
business.
Capone was also very attracted to the deeply rooted culture of
Corporate Social Responsibility at Qlik. He is on the board of the
New Jersey Chapter of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and had
previously chaired charitable foundations at both ADP and
Medidata.
About Qlik
Qlik® is the leading data analytics platform and the pioneer of
user-driven business intelligence. Its portfolio of cloud-based and
on-premise solutions meets customers’ growing needs from reporting
and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and custom
analytics, regardless of where data is located. Customers using
Qlik Sense®, QlikView® and Qlik® Cloud, gain meaning out of
information from multiple sources, exploring the hidden
relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite good
ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik does business in
more than 100 countries with over 45,000 customers globally.
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