Doug Merritt
| Doug Merritt | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏫 Education | B.S. of Computer Science University of the Pacific |
| 💼 Occupation | President and CEO of Splunk |
| 📆 Years active | 2002-present |
Doug Merritt is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Splunk.[1][2][3]
Career[edit]
In 1987, Merritt earned his B.S. of Computer Science from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California.[4][5] In 1996, Merritt founded a workforce management cloud-based application company called Icarian.[6][7] After the dotcom crash, he sold the company to Workstream, based in Toronto, for $9.8 million.[6]
From 2001 to 2004, Merritt was the Group Vice President and General Manager at PeopleSoft Inc.[5][7] From 2005-2011, he was an executive VP at SAP and was a member of SAP’s executive council.[8][9] In 2011, he was named CEO of Baynote Inc., a behavioral personalization and marketing tech company.[9][5][8]
In 2012, Merritt joined Cisco Systems as a Senior Vice President for Products and Solutions Marketing.[10] He was with Cisco for two years, before joining Splunk in 2014.[9] In 2020, Merritt appeared on 'Mad Money' to discuss Splunk's role in partnering with Chicago Schools to help with remote education.[11] Additionally, in 2020, Merritt lead the 'Splunk Pledge', a commitment to contribute $100 million in platform licenses, training, and support to nonprofits and educational institutions over the next decade.[12]
CEO of Splunk[edit]
In 2014, Merritt joined Splunk as the Senior Vice President, Field Operations.[10] In 2015, he was appointed President and CEO, replacing Godfrey Sullivan.[10] Splunk, founded in 2003, provides analytic software to help companies monitor and harness machine data.[1][13]
In 2019, Merritt was named one of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of the Year Northern California.[14]
In 2020, Merritt was one of 50 business and community leaders named to the Silicon Valley Recovery Roundtable (initially called the Economic Recovery and Resilience Council).[15] The group will advise local governments on policy decisions, and help formulate advocacy priorities to recover from the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.[15]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "CEO explains challenges in Splunk: 'We tend to be mission critical'". CNBC. 2019-08-27. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ↑ "166 Radical Business Transformation | Doug Merritt CEO of Splunk". Christopher Lochhead Follow your Different. 2020-06-10. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ "How the White House can gain trust for its coronavirus data". Fortune. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ Canner, Ben (2019-07-17). "The 10 Coolest SIEM CEOs of 2019 (You Should Know)". Top SIEM Vendors, News & Reviews for Security Information and Event Management. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "CxO of the Week: Doug Merritt, CEO of Splunk | EM360". em360tech.com. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Splunk chief targets $500m Australian revenue as regional growth outstrips US". Australian Financial Review. 2017-12-04. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Splunk appoints Doug Merritt as President and CEO". ARN. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Enright, Allison (2011-01-14). "Baynote closes on new funding and adds a new exec". Digital Commerce 360. Retrieved 2020-08-20. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Hesseldahl, Arik (2015-11-19). "Splunk CEO Godfrey Sullivan Steps Down (We Have the Memo)". Vox. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Hoover, Mark. "Splunk names new president and CEO". Washington Technology. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Splunk CEO on equipping Chicago Public Schools with remote class technology". CNBC. 2020-08-27. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ Hurst, Aaron (2017-03-16). "How The CEO Of Big Data Firm Splunk Is Using Data To Boost Social Purpose". Fast Company. Retrieved 2020-09-14.
- ↑ Taulli, Tom. "Splunk CEO: Artificial Intelligence Does Not Exist Today". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ↑ "Entrepreneur Of The Year Northern California winners". www.ey.com. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Here's a list of leaders on Silicon Valley's COVID-19 economic recovery team". The Mercury News. 2020-05-05. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
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