Splunk Announces New Senior Leadership Appointments
July 15 2021 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Leading cloud data platform provider names
its first Chief Cloud Officer, new Chief Marketing Officer and
Chief Product Officer
Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), provider of the Data-to-Everything
Platform, today reinforced its commitment to helping organizations
accelerate cloud success with a series of senior leadership
appointments across its go-to-market and product teams. Effective
immediately, Sendur Sellakumar has been named to the newly created
role of senior vice president and Chief Cloud Officer; Claire
Hockin has been appointed senior vice president and Chief Marketing
Officer; and Garth Fort has joined the company from AWS to become
Splunk’s senior vice president and Chief Product Officer.
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Sendur Sellakumar, senior vice president
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“Customers worldwide are transforming and moving to the
cloud—and we provide an unmatched ability to handle their
ever-increasing data and to facilitate rapid growth,” said Doug
Merritt, President and CEO of Splunk. “With these new appointments,
we are aligning our leadership to remain laser-focused on ensuring
organizations succeed in the cloud. Claire, Garth and Sendur are
passionate leaders who exemplify our exceptional culture and work
tirelessly to remove the barriers between data and action.”
Sellakumar brings his eight years of Splunk experience leading
product, cloud and corporate development teams to oversee Splunk
customer cloud transformation, acceleration and go-to-market
strategy as the company’s first Chief Cloud Officer. Having spent
the last two years transitioning the portfolio to be cloud first,
he will accelerate customers’ shift to cloud and spearhead
essential cloud-related partnerships and alliances. Sellakumar’s
leadership will extend across Splunk’s product, engineering,
strategy, sales, partner, and customer success teams to drive cloud
growth. Sellakumar will report to Teresa Carlson, President and
Chief Growth Officer.
Also reporting directly to Carlson, Hockin will lead the global
marketing team and support Splunk’s go-to-market efforts to
transition customers to cloud. Over the past three years at Splunk,
Hockin has championed major marketing transformations to reposition
Splunk as a cloud-first company and scale customer engagement and
growth.
With more than 20 years of product management experience, Fort
joins Splunk from AWS and will play an instrumental role in
continuing to evolve its market-leading product portfolio of
software and cloud services. Fort will serve as the senior vice
president and Chief Product Officer reporting to Shawn Bice,
President of Products and Technology. A former Microsoft and AWS
general manager, he has a successful record guiding software teams
through periods of high growth at scale and driving their
transition to cloud.
For more information on the Splunk leadership team, please visit
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/about-splunk/leadership.html.
About Splunk Inc.
Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) turns data into doing with the
Data-to-Everything Platform. Splunk technology is designed to
investigate, monitor, analyze and act on data at any scale.
Splunk, Splunk>, Data-to-Everything, D2E and Turn Data Into
Doing are trademarks and registered trademarks of Splunk Inc. in
the United States and other countries. All other brand names,
product names, or trademarks belong to their respective owners. ©
2021 Splunk Inc. All rights reserved.
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