![]() I’ve led the company for 19 years while helping to grow it into one of the best-known security brands in the world. Four years later, I was recruited to serve as founding CEO of Proofpoint, a SaaS security company that protects business from advanced threats and compliance risks. I then spent the better part of a decade in leadership positions at Sun Microsystems and Sybase before starting my first CEO role at a private SaaS company called Portera. I got my start at Hewlett-Packard as a software engineer and worked my way up the ranks. I’ve spent the last 35+ years in the tech industry, where I’ve turned a love of finding new ways to approach problems into a career. I’m excited to join your amazing company, and since the official announcement has gone out this afternoon, I wanted to make a direct introduction here. Splunkers, it’s my honor to take this opportunity to introduce myself to you. I can’t wait to see what’s next for us here at Splunk. conf events and spoken with countless customers and Splunk devotees, I really wanted to share our mutual enthusiasm with you all too because I know how much you’d appreciate it. Yes, he is talking directly to our employees but as someone who has been to multiple. But when I - along with every other Splunk employee - received the below message from our newly announced CEO, Gary Steele, expressing his excitement for joining our company, I felt compelled to share on our blog. As head of our social media program, the majority of my focus is helping make sure the real subject matter experts and those with interesting stories to tell, have the tools and enablement to do so. Having said that, it’s pretty rare that I take advantage of this resource to share my own observations and stories with our Splunk Blogs’ audience. ![]() During that time, I’ve had a front row seat for some incredibly exciting, and frankly career-defining moments. I’ve been a Splunker for over 7 years now. ![]()
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