Splunk Appoints Min Wang as Chief Technology Officer
April 17 2023 - 4:05PM
Business Wire
Google, Visa and HP Veteran Joins Technology
Leadership Team
Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK), the cybersecurity and observability
leader, today announced Min Wang as Chief Technology Officer (CTO),
effective immediately. Reporting to Tom Casey, SVP, Products &
Technology, Wang will partner with leaders across Engineering,
Product Management, Design and Go-to-Market teams to advance the
vision and technical direction of Splunk’s product portfolio
innovation so customers can develop greater digital resilience.
Wang brings over 20 years of experience in technology research
and development, with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI),
machine learning, data analytics and enterprise cloud. Most
recently, she spent more than five years at Google, where she led a
team responsible for critical components of the company’s AI-driven
Google Assistant. Prior to Google, Wang served as the Senior Vice
President of Visa Research, where she established the organization
responsible for applied research on data analytics, security, and
the future of commerce. She has also held research leadership roles
for Google Research, HP Labs and IBM Research.
“With her extensive product leadership experience at global
brands like Google, IBM, HP and Visa, deep expertise in scaled data
management and passion for AI, Min is well-qualified to spearhead
our efforts to build a safer, more resilient digital world through
our unified security and observability solutions,” said Tom Casey,
SVP of Products and Technology, Splunk. “Min’s track record of
rapidly turning advanced research and development into practical
value will help Splunk enable its customers to navigate the
complexities of digital transformation while keeping their systems
up, running and secure.”
“I am excited to join Splunk at a time when advancements in AI
present a tremendous opportunity to transform our security and
observability solutions,” said Wang. “By better leveraging AI
technologies like machine learning and natural language processing,
Splunk can extract deeper insights, provide more precise predictive
analytics and streamline data analysis processes to foster more
informed decision-making for our customers. I look forward to
partnering with Splunk’s leaders and teams to help ensure our
customers’ mission-critical systems remain secure, reliable and
resilient.”
Min holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University and a
Ph.D. from Duke University. She has published over 90 research
papers in top peer-reviewed conferences and journals and received
several distinguished research awards for her work on data
management.
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security, infrastructure and application issues from becoming major
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