ThoughtSpot Appoints James Smith as VP of EMEA as Worldwide Adoption of AI-Powered Analytics Accelerates
May 14 2024 - 4:00AM
ThoughtSpot Appoints James Smith as VP of EMEA as Worldwide
Adoption of AI-Powered Analytics Accelerates
ThoughtSpot, the AI-Powered Analytics company, today announced the
appointment of James Smith as its Vice President of EMEA. In his
role, Smith will be responsible for managing ThoughtSpot’s
operations across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, helping
companies maximize the value of their data investments, migrate
from legacy BI and confidently embrace reliable, accurate
Generative AI, all while bringing new data-backed ideas to life
that create real business impact.
Smith brings over a decade of experience helping companies
transform how they leverage data to make decisions and drive their
business. Most recently, Smith served as Tableau’s UK&I General
Manager, where he helped companies transform how analysts leverage
and present data, helping the region meet and exceed growth
targets. At ThoughtSpot, Smith will expand on this focus on
democratizing data, going beyond technical teams to every knowledge
worker.
“With the rapid advancement of Generative AI, right now every
business is at a crossroads. Everyone knows they have to put data
to work in new ways to thrive today and into the years to come. To
truly unlock this potential, however, we have a responsibility to
put people – not technology – at the center of these processes,”
said Jeff Depa, Chief Revenue Officer at ThoughtSpot. “As we
continue our growth journey, James’ experience and leadership will
help our customers across EMEA break free from the shackles of
legacy BI, maximize the value of data investments, and spark their
Data Renaissance.”
“I’ve spent over a decade helping companies leverage data to
transform their businesses. As an industry we’ve made strides in
empowering data professionals, but the real opportunity ahead is
getting data, and more importantly insights, into the hands of
nontechnical users whenever and wherever they are making
decisions,” said James Smith, VP EMEA at ThoughtSpot. “Pairing
Generative AI with ThoughtSpot’s patented search platform promises
to bring data to the fingertips of all users and usher in a new era
for analytics that makes this vision a reality. I’m excited to help
customers across EMEA tenfold data’s impact in their
organizations.”
Smith has joined ThoughtSpot on the heels of strong growth for
the company, including:
- The success of ThoughtSpot Embedded, the company’s embedded
analytics solution introduced in late 2021, which emerged as an
industry leader for product and app developers looking to infuse AI
into their analytics.
- The launch of and expansion of ThoughtSpot Sage, an AI-powered
search experience that lets every user, regardless of technical
skills, leverage foundational language models within ThoughtSpot’s
patented search technology to get insights from their data through
natural language search.
- The appointment of Ahmed Quadri as Chief Customer Officer, and
Anthony Lee-Masis as Chief Information Security Officer
About ThoughtSpot
ThoughtSpot is the AI-Powered Analytics company. Our mission is
to create a more fact-driven world with the easiest to use
analytics platform. With ThoughtSpot, anyone can leverage natural
language search powered by large language models to ask and answer
data questions with confidence. ThoughtSpot enables everyone within
an organization to limitlessly engage with live data in any popular
cloud data platform, making it easy to create and interact with
granular, hyper-personalized, and actionable insights. Customers
can take advantage of both ThoughtSpot’s web and mobile
applications to improve decision-making for every employee,
wherever and whenever decisions are made. With ThoughtSpot’s
low-code developer-friendly platform, ThoughtSpot Embedded,
customers can also embed AI-Powered Analytics to their products and
services, monetizing their data and engaging users to keep them
coming back for more. Organizations like T-Mobile, BT, Daimler,
CVS, Medtronic, Royal Bank of Canada, Nasdaq, OpenTable, Capital
One, Huel, and Comcast rely on ThoughtSpot to transform how their
employees and customers take advantage of data. Try ThoughtSpot
today and see for yourself.
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