Splunk Appoints Four-Star U.S. Army General Dennis Via to its Board of Directors
November 12 2020 - 4:02PM
Business Wire
Seasoned Leader Brings 40+ Years of Military
and Technology Leadership Expertise to Splunk
Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the Data-to-Everything
Platform, today announced that retired Army General Dennis Via has
joined Splunk’s Board of Directors, bringing more than 40 years of
military, technology and public sector leadership experience to the
role.
Currently, General Via serves as an Executive Vice President
with Booz Allen Hamilton, a technology and management consulting
firm headquartered in McLean, Virginia. As a senior leader in the
Booz Allen Global Defense Group’s Joint Combatant Command business,
General Via leads security cooperation with a focus on innovation,
transformation and multi-year market growth strategies. He also
serves as a Defense Fellow, helping defense, intelligence and
homeland security clients manage today’s evolving threat and
budgetary environments.
“All three branches of the U.S. government and all four branches
of the U.S. military leverage Splunk’s Data-to-Everything Platform
to solve their toughest IT, Security and Observability challenges.
General Via is a technology luminary within the government, and
knows this world inside and out,” said Doug Merritt, President and
CEO of Splunk. “I am thrilled to welcome Dennis to Splunk’s Board
of Directors and am confident his extensive experience will help
accelerate Splunk’s impact on our public sector customers and
broader customer base.”
During his 36-year military career, General Via held multiple
command and senior leader positions across the Department of
Defense (DoD) in the areas of information technology, network
operations, cybersecurity and global supply chain. Via culminated
his career as the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Materiel
Command, the Army’s primary logistics and sustainment command,
responsible for managing the global supply chain and synchronizing
logistics and sustainment activities across the U.S. Army. He also
held multiple commander, signal, and chief information officer
roles, working on everything from communications infrastructure and
cybersecurity to global logistics and engineering.
“I am honored to join the Splunk Board,” said General Via.
“Splunk’s customer-first focus, along with the company’s
exceptional reputation for delivering actions and outcomes that
positively impact the world through data, is truly admirable. I
look forward to the opportunity to support the company’s vision of
creating lasting data outcomes for its customers.”
General Via holds a B.S. from Virginia State University and a
Master of Education from Boston University. He serves on the boards
of directors of Milliken & Company and the nonprofit Capital
Partners for Education, and is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations, the Association of the United States Army, and the Armed
Forces Communications Electronics Association (AFCEA).
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into doing with the Data-to-Everything Platform. Splunk technology
is designed to investigate, monitor, analyze and act on data at any
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