Teradata’s Hillary Ashton Named Chief Product Officer; Tapped to Lead Cloud Innovation and New Product Organization
September 08 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
The new organization will focus on innovation,
quality and value to customers looking to solve their most complex
data challenges
Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the cloud data analytics platform company,
today announced the promotion of Hillary Ashton to Chief Product
Officer, as well as the formation of a new Products organization
that drives all ongoing technology innovations while ensuring that
Teradata products remain of the highest quality and deliver
differentiated value to customers.
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“In our search for a Chief Product Officer, Hillary’s
credentials were simply unmatched. Since joining in November last
year, she has proven her strong leadership skills in accelerating
our cloud offerings, and she brings an outside-in, customer-focused
lens,” said Steve McMillan, CEO of Teradata. “I expect that – with
Hillary at the helm – our new Products organization will hold a
crucial role in Teradata’s future success, as it ensures that our
technology innovations are forward-looking, keeping customer needs
at the forefront, and aligned to Teradata's cloud-first
priority.”
Leveraging her strong grounding in analytics, cloud and
leading-edge technologies, Ashton will head a newly assembled
global Products Organization – a diverse team responsible for
innovation, product management, engineering and quality, and
ensuring that Teradata’s Vantage hybrid multi-cloud platform
delivers differentiated value to customers. Ashton will also be
responsible for defining strategic direction for Teradata’s
cloud-first portfolio, engineering this foundation into
high-quality products that also deliver a world-class user
experience for customers.
“My focus has always been – and will remain - accelerating
Teradata’s efforts to bring products to market that delight our
users and meet customers' needs today and tomorrow,” said Hillary
Ashton, Chief Product Officer at Teradata. “By first considering
the needs of the market, our customers, and our prospects, we will
advance our hybrid multi-cloud platform that provides
differentiated value to our customers and growth for Teradata. I’m
truly honored to step into this role and look forward to driving
our innovation, expanding our market share and increasing our
revenue.”
Prior to Teradata, Ashton served as Executive Vice President and
General Manager of PTC’s Augmented Reality (AR) business unit. In
this role, she was responsible for all operational aspects of the
Vuforia SaaS business and its product lines, including executive
leadership and vision, strategy, product management, engineering,
sales and marketing. Other roles include serving as SVP of
Analytics SaaS solutions at Manthan and as Director, Customer
Intelligence at SAS. In each of these roles, Ashton has contributed
to expanding market share and increasing revenue.
Ashton is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College where
she earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Government. She has
spoken at various conferences and events worldwide, and in 2019 she
was named to the National Diversity Council’s (NDC) annual list of
the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology.
About Teradata
Teradata is the cloud data analytics platform company, built for
a hybrid multi-cloud reality, solving the world's most complex data
challenges at scale. We help businesses unlock value by turning
data into their greatest asset. See how at Teradata.com.
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