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Michael Baum Co-founder and Consultant

In 2004, Michael co-founded Splunk with two friends and an ambition to assist humans in the battle against increasing IT complexity and the onslaught of machine generated data. As founding CEO, Michael led the team that quickly scaled Splunk from a geeky idea to one of the fastest growing private software companies in Silicon Valley. The company has delivered immediate benefit to more than 1,300 enterprises, service providers and government organizations in over 81 countries around the world. More than half of the Fortune 100 are Splunk customers. Splunk was the winner of Deloitte's 2008 fastest growing rising stars in Silicon Valley and recognized as one of the top places to work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Times.

Previously Michael was VP E-Commerce Services at Yahoo!, VP E-Commerce at InfoSeek and Disney Internet Group. He is also co-founder of Collation, acquired by IBM's Tivoli Group; Arthas, acquired by Yahoo!; 280, acquired by Infoseek and Reality Online, acquired by Reuters. Michael was a software engineer at IBM’s Silicon Valley Laboratory and a member of the original IBM PC development team.

He received his B.S. in Computer Science with high honors from Drexel University and his M.B.A. from the Wharton Business School. Michael enjoys pontificating, writing and speaking about the battle of man versus machine, transparent business models and consumerization of the enterprise.

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We've got the brightest minds in search technology and business from Disney, Infoseek, Apple, Hyperion, Autodesk, Informix, Siebel, MSN and Yahoo. We've built some of the most innovative IT management products of the last decade at ArcSight, Business Objects, Collation, Mercury, Sun and Wily. We've pioneered compliance and corporate governance at Sensage.

Innovation is in our DNA - from technology to the way we do business.

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Godfrey Sullivan President & CEO

Godfrey Sullivan has a passion for building great companies. He is a technology veteran who was most recently the President and CEO of Hyperion Solutions, the global leader in the Enterprise Performance Management software category. He is well known for having taken Hyperion from $500M in 2001 to a position of visible success in 2007 – including revenues of almost $1B, recognized leadership in the EPM segment, and 6 times multiple in Hyperion’s market cap. Hyperion was acquired by Oracle in 2007 for $3.3B.

The culture he believes in is "to win, but win the right way". Hyperion was named to Fortune’s 100 best places to work in 2004 and to the Forbes 100 Highest Integrity Companies in 2006. Godfrey also innovated from a green point of view, pioneering in 2004 the "Drive Clean" program where Hyperion gave a $5,000 bonus to employees who purchased Hybrid cars. That program has now been widely adopted by other companies including Google and Bank of America.

Previously, Godfrey was CEO of Promptu Corp., an enterprise marketing automation software company. He spent eight years at Autodesk in senior management positions, including president of Autodesk's Discreet Division, a $200 million digital media unit. Prior to joining Autodesk, Godfrey spent 11 years with Apple heading up Business Marketing, U.S. Channels and Western U.S. Operations.

Godfrey serves on the board of directors of Citrix Systems, Inc., and Informatica Corporation. He received his BBA from Baylor University, and has completed executive programs at Stanford and the Wharton School.

Michael Baum Co-founder and Consultant

In 2004, Michael co-founded Splunk with two friends and an ambition to assist humans in the battle against increasing IT complexity and the onslaught of machine generated data. As founding CEO, Michael led the team that quickly scaled Splunk from a geeky idea to one of the fastest growing private software companies in Silicon Valley. The company has delivered immediate benefit to more than 1,300 enterprises, service providers and government organizations in over 81 countries around the world. More than half of the Fortune 100 are Splunk customers. Splunk was the winner of Deloitte's 2008 fastest growing rising stars in Silicon Valley and recognized as one of the top places to work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Times.

Previously Michael was VP E-Commerce Services at Yahoo!, VP E-Commerce at InfoSeek and Disney Internet Group. He is also co-founder of Collation, acquired by IBM's Tivoli Group; Arthas, acquired by Yahoo!; 280, acquired by Infoseek and Reality Online, acquired by Reuters. Michael was a software engineer at IBM’s Silicon Valley Laboratory and a member of the original IBM PC development team.

He received his B.S. in Computer Science with high honors from Drexel University and his M.B.A. from the Wharton Business School. Michael enjoys pontificating, writing and speaking about the battle of man versus machine, transparent business models and consumerization of the enterprise.

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Erik Swan Chief Technology Officer, VP Engineering and Co-founder

Erik is Splunk's chief product innovator. With a "by the people, for the people" approach, Erik and his team build software they want to use. Not big, complex products, and not stripped down tools either. His approach to product development is to trust autonomous teams of really smart people to deliver amazing innovations in an iterative, open environment. It’s Splunk’s version of agile and the foundation of great technology and a great place to work.

In July 2009 Erik was named a recipient of the prestigious IDG InfoWorld CTO 25 Award, an annual award that honors senior IT executives who demonstrate leadership within their companies and in the IT community. Before Splunk, Erik co-founded several successful start-ups and has held executive engineering and operations roles at companies including Apple Computer, Walt Disney Company, Taligent and InfoSeek. He has a long history of building teams and bringing to market a broad range of software and services products. He holds inventor credits on seven U.S. patents.

Read Erik's blog.

Rob Das Chief Architect and Co-founder

Rob is the man behind the Splunk architecture. He is obsessed with the challenge of indexing and searching machine generated data on a massive scale. Responsible for keeping Splunk’s software foundation open, consistent, extensible and massively scalable, he will be happy with nothing less than Splunk indexing data from every machine in your datacenter.

Rob has been a large-scale, distributed software architect and engineer in early-stage ventures and large companies for more than two decades at Avolent, Data Broadcasting, Lotus, Sun Microsystems and Taligent. His expertise includes high performance and high availability server architecture and implementation, financial transaction interfaces, information search and retrieval and network file systems. He is an inventor on several U.S. patents.

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Tom Schodorf SVP of Field Operations

Tom is an expert at building strong customer-focused field organizations, driving operational excellence and growing businesses. Schodorf’s success can be attributed to relentless attention to customer satisfaction and his company’s objectives while establishing a coaching and mentoring culture. He is responsible for all aspects of Splunk's worldwide field organization, including sales and technical personnel. With international leadership experience and a deep understanding of the enterprise software market, Tom positions Splunk to continue its rapid growth and expand its global reach.

Schodorf's experience includes both domestic and international sales and executive management positions at BMC Software and IBM spanning 26 years. While at BMC, he most recently led the Identify Business Unit including R&D, sales and marketing with full P&L responsibility. Tom has also led BMC Software’s Asia-Pacific geography, based in Singapore, and the U.S. Commercial Division, the largest in the company. Prior to BMC, Schodorf was a sales executive with IBM for nine years.

Tom is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a degree in Business Finance and earned an MBA from the University of Dayton.

Sheren Bouchakian VP Human Resources

Sheren is passionate about people and creating HR teams that foster a culture of employee growth and a great work environment, by keeping the "human" in Human Resources. "When people feel truly valued where they work, they naturally commit to being excellent, and great things just happen." She believes that one of the most important business fundamentals is building strong relationships inside the company, which leads to superior service and customer relationships with the outside world.

Sheren is a true HR Generalist in that her career experience spans all aspects of the HR discipline. Her sweet spot is building HR teams from the ground up, in companies that have experienced tremendous growth. She spent the majority of her career on the East Coast, in the financial services industry - with Prebon Yamane (a global institutional brokerage firm), Alliance Capital Management, and Jefferson Insurance Group (a subsidiary of the global Insurance giant Allianz Insurance). She moved to the West Coast in 2005 and joined WageWorks, a benefits administration company, as the VP of Human Resources and built an HR team across six sites.

Sheren attended Seton Hall University on a full academic/leadership scholarship where she earned a B.S. degree in Business, is a certified executive and life coach, and a member of the Society of Human Resources Management.

Lionel Hartmann VP Support & Services

Lionel brings a holistic approach to Splunk Support. Looking beyond the trouble ticket symptom, his team goes further to understand what’s not immediately visible – doing the triage, but searching for the root cause. The customer wants their problem solved. His goal is solve it and have an impact – large or small – that provides a connection.

Lionel was VP of Technical Support at Arcsight where he achieved significant customer satisfaction gains with a focus on performance driven models. While with Siebel Systems and Business Objects in the US and in France, he was the global resource for tech support, guiding and coaching engineers worldwide. Lionel holds a masters in Business Administration and Management from the business School Group of Marseilles, as well as a masters degree in Economics from the University of Paris La Sorbonne.

Brian Haynes VP EMEA

As head of EMEA operations, Brian is an invaluable part of Splunk's expansion abroad. Building a comprehensive network of valued partners and resellers, Brian and the rest of the EMEA team are helping to make Splunk an integral part of IT departments around the world. An active sailor and former Olympian, his focus, determination, wit and knowledge make him an indispensable part of the Splunk leadership team.

Brian has over 20 years experience in sales management with a proven track record leading high-growth technology companies. As VP of Northern EMEA for Legato Systems he helped take the company from virtually zero annual revenues in Europe in 1995 to circa $140 million at the time of its $1.3 billion acquisition by EMC. After leaving EMC in 2005 Brian joined Wily Technology to head up the Northern EMEA Operation. Wily was acquired by CA in February of 2006. Brian continued in his capacity of Director for Northern EMEA and helped lead and grow the operation through the challenging post acquisition period. Brian began his career as an Engineer within the Hawker Siddley Group, where he studied Mechanical Engineering.

Robert Lau VP Asia Pacific & Japan

In his role as head of Splunk's Asia Pacific operations, Robert champions long-term strategic partnerships with leading distributors and system integrators to serve the customers across the region. His dedication, personal commitment to partner relationships, outstanding track record and unique knowledge of the IT business in Asia make him invaluable to the ongoing success of the organization, and growth worldwide.

Splunk is Robert's third startup venture. Before Splunk, Robert started the Asia Pacific operations at ArcSight, and Portal Software where he successfully built out the operations, exceeded revenue targets and led to a successful IPO. He began his career as research engineer at LSI Logic in Milpitas, California. Robert holds degrees from Texas A&M University, UC Berkeley, and Stanford University.

Christina Noren VP Product Management

Christina is the voice of the customer at Splunk. With a unique approach to blending support and product management into a single team, she's built systems and processes to capture every Splunk user interaction - synthesizing them into interesting problems for engineering to solve. Her dream is that every engineer working on a feature can instantly connect with every customer who needs it.

Christina was group manager responsible for MSN's monitoring infrastructure. She was a key early employee at SenSage, Portal Software and Sonic Solutions. She was co-founder and CEO for Artloop. Christina holds a B.A. in International Finance and Economics and a B.F.A. from the Dominican University of California.

Read Christina's blog.

Phil Oreste VP Finance & Operations

Phil is responsible for Splunk's finance and operations. At a company that is all about disruptive technology and creative approach, Phil provides the steady, dependable business foundation required to keep the business as nimble as the product itself.

Phil has held finance and operational management roles at large public companies and venture-backed startups. While Chief Financial Officer of Workstream, a publicly-traded software-as-a-service (SaaS) vendor, the company doubled its sales growth. Prior to Workstream, Phil was President and COO of Blue Titan Software. He has also held senior finance positions with Broadvision, SBC and Shakey’s. Phil has a degree in finance from the University of San Francisco and is a Certified Public Acountant.

Steve Sommer VP Worldwide Marketing

Steve is passionate about new, disruptive markets. He has helped build several start-ups that created and marketed innovative software. Steve joined Splunk to help scale the company and the IT Search category globally. Steve brings to Splunk over 20 years of worldwide enterprise software marketing experience.

Steve has held a variety of executive marketing positions, and took three companies successfully public--Portal Software, ArcSight and SuccessFactors. At these software start-ups, as well as previously as VP Worldwide Marketing at Informix, he developed a deep understanding of global marketing. Steve also worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co., and has two B.S. degrees from M.I.T. and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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John Connors General Partner, Ignition Partners

John Connors is a partner at Ignition Partners, LLC. He invests principally in business software and services. Prior to joining Ignition, John spent sixteen years at Microsoft Corporation in several strategic roles. From January 2000 to April 2005 he was senior vice president of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer. In this role John was responsible for managing the global Finance function as well as corporate services, procurement, real estate and the company’s Global Operations & Technology group.

John also held a variety of positions including vice president of the Worldwide Enterprise Group, where he was responsible for the sales, services and relationship strategy for large, medium-sized and small businesses. Before that, Connors served as vice president and Chief Information Officer (CIO). Before serving as CIO, he held a number of positions within and outside finance, including Corporate Controller, General Manager of worldwide financial operations, Director of business operations of Microsoft’s European headquarters in Paris, and Director of business operations of the Worldwide Sales and Support Strategy Group.

John is a member of the Board of Directors of Nike, Jobster, FiREapps, BioPassword, SecondSpace, XenSource and Splunk corporations.

David Hornik General Partner, August Capital

David Hornik joined August Capital in 2000. He invests broadly in information technology companies, with a focus on enterprise application and infrastructure software and consumer facing software and services. Prior to joining August Capital, David was an intellectual property and corporate attorney at Venture Law Group, Cravath Swaine & Moore, and Perkins Coie LLP. In his legal practice, David represented high tech startups in all aspects of their formation, financing and operations, including Yahoo!, When.com (AOL), Sonique (Terra Lycos), Pure Payments (Excite@Home), BuyDirect (Beyond.com) and Ofoto (Kodak).

David has an eclectic technology background. At Stanford, he studied and taught the impact of technology on music, earning a degree in Computer Music. At Cambridge, England, he explored the power of technology in tracking and combating bias crime, receiving an M.Phil. in Criminology. At Harvard Law School, from which he received a J.D., magna cum laude, David focused upon the convergence of technology and the law, serving as an editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and publishing papers on digital audio and software piracy. David has taught business and law internationally and is a lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

He currently sits on the board of directors of DoneRight, Nomis Solutions, PayCycle, Six Apart, Splunk and VideoEgg. He previously served on the board of Evite which was acquired by Ticketmaster and was a board observer with Tickle Inc. which was acquired by Monster and Actional which was acquired by Progress Software.

Robert Roblin Program Director, IBM Software Group's Tivoli Division

Robert is Program Director, IBM Software Group's Tivoli Division. Previously, he was President and Chief Executive Officer at Collation, Inc., which was acquired by IBM. Robert has over 25 years experience in marketing and sales in the technology and communications sector. Prior to founding Collation, Robert was Executive Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Covad Communications where he was responsible for the definition and introduction of new services, demand generation, channel development, sales and customer support. Robert has also held executive positions at Adobe Systems, IBM, Pensoft and Clarus Corporation. He began his technology career at Software Arts, the creators of VisiCalc.

Marc Sokol Partner, JK&B Capital

Marc has more than 30 years of experience in the enterprise software industry. Prior to joining JK&B, Marc was a Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Marketing for Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA) where he was responsible for product positioning, channel marketing, Web marketing and advertising. He has also acted as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Senior Vice President of Advanced Technology. He was actively involved in defining technical and product strategies for CA products and was responsible for the technical evaluation of strategic new business initiatives including database management, enterprise management and security and was responsible for CA's merger and acquisition activities including investments in technology ventures. Prior, Marc was responsible for a number of engineering development projects at CA.

Prior to CA, Marc was co-founder of Realia, Inc., where he co-authored the Realia COBOL compiler, runtime and various utilities. In 1991, he sold his company to Pansophic Systems, Inc., which in turn was acquired by CA. Early in his career, Marc was a software developer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Marc is on the Board of Directors of AppStream, ClearPoint Metrics, Vormetric, Scalent Systems, AlterPoint, Splunk, Cittio and Chumby Industries.

Nick Sturiale General Partner, Sevin Rosen Funds

Nick Sturiale is a Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, focused on U.S. technology growth and mid-market buyout investments. Prior to joining Carlyle, Nick spent eight years as General Partner with Sevin Rosen Funds, a venture capital firm. Prior to Sevin Rosen, Nick spent more than a dozen years in numerous executive start-up operating roles including technical marketing, business development and sales. During this time, he worked in three venture-backed companies in industries such as application software, flat panel display and semiconductors. While at business school, Nick was founding CEO and director of Timbre Technologies, a SRF-backed metrology software company which was later acquired by Tokyo Electron Limited (TSE) for $138MM. Nick also led the firm's investment in Xensource which was acquired in 2007 by Citrix (CTXS) for $500M.

He currently serves on the boards of Solidcore, Teneros, Splunk, YouSendIt, Rhythm New Media and Trade Beam.

Godfrey Sullivan President & CEO

Godfrey Sullivan has a passion for building great companies. He is a technology veteran who was most recently the President and CEO of Hyperion Solutions, the global leader in the Enterprise Performance Management software category. He is well known for having taken Hyperion from $500M in 2001 to a position of visible success in 2007 – including revenues of almost $1B, recognized leadership in the EPM segment, and 6 times multiple in Hyperion’s market cap. Hyperion was acquired by Oracle in 2007 for $3.3B.

The culture he believes in is "to win, but win the right way". Hyperion was named to Fortune’s 100 best places to work in 2004 and to the Forbes 100 Highest Integrity Companies in 2006. Godfrey also innovated from a green point of view, pioneering in 2004 the "Drive Clean" program where Hyperion gave a $5,000 bonus to employees who purchased Hybrid cars. That program has now been widely adopted by other companies including Google and Bank of America.

Previously, Godfrey was CEO of Promptu Corp., an enterprise marketing automation software company. He spent eight years at Autodesk in senior management positions, including president of Autodesk's Discreet Division, a $200 million digital media unit. Prior to joining Autodesk, Godfrey spent 11 years with Apple heading up Business Marketing, U.S. Channels and Western U.S. Operations.

Godfrey serves on the board of directors of Citrix Systems, Inc., and Informatica Corporation. He received his BBA from Baylor University, and has completed executive programs at Stanford and the Wharton School.

Erik Swan Chief Technology Officer, VP Engineering and Co-founder

Erik is Splunk's chief product innovator. With a "by the people, for the people" approach, Erik and his team build software they want to use. Not big, complex products, and not stripped down tools either. His approach to product development is to trust autonomous teams of really smart people to deliver amazing innovations in an iterative, open environment. It’s Splunk’s version of agile and the foundation of great technology and a great place to work.

Before Splunk, Erik co-founded several successful start-ups and has held executive engineering and operations roles at companies including Apple Computer, Walt Disney Company, Taligent and InfoSeek. He has a long history of building teams and bringing to market a broad range of software and services products. He holds inventor credits on seven U.S. patents.

Read Erik's blog.

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Splunk's investors include August Capital, Sevin Rosen Funds, JK&B Capital, and Ignition Partners.

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