Mike Tuchen
Chief Executive OfficerA seasoned executive with deep experience in marketing and product strategy, Mike has been leading Talend since 2013. Previously, he was the CEO of Rapid7, which he took through a dramatic expansion in marketing, sales, partnerships, and product. Before that, he served as the General Manager of Microsoft's SQL Server Marketing team. Mike has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and an M.B.A. from Harvard.
Ram Bartov
Interim Chief Financial OfficerAfter successful tenures at RingCentral, SanDisk, and KPMG, Ram joined Talend as Vice President and Corporate Controller; in 2018, Ram became Interim Chief Financial Officer. Ram has deep experience managing and scaling accounting teams in quickly-growing public companies.
Brad Stratton
Executive Vice President of Worldwide SalesBefore joining Talend, Brad spent 20 years in sales leadership at the software companies Verint, Witness Systems, and PTC. Brad got his B.A. at Colorado College and his M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota Carlson School.
Ashley Stirrup
Chief Marketing OfficerSince 2014, Ashley has driven market leadership, global awareness, product marketing, and demand generation at Talend. Previously, he held senior leadership positions in marketing and product at leading cloud and software companies, including ServiceSource, Taleo, Citrix, and Siebel Systems.
Barbara Cadigan
Senior Vice President of PeopleBarb brings over 20 years of experience to her role at Talend, including expertise working with diverse international teams through periods of large-scale growth and change. In the past, she held a series of expanding roles at Electronic Arts and worked at Advanced Micro Devices and StorMedia.
Nello Franco
Senior Vice President of Customer SuccessNello is responsible for all of Talend's customer-facing functions, including customer support, professional services, customer success management, and subscription management. Before joining our team in 2013, he held a series of roles leading the implementation of tech solutions to Global 1000 customers. Nello is also a leading influencer in the customer success space.
Laurent Bride
Chief Technical OfficerWhen he joined Talend, Laurent brought 17 years of software experience, including management and executive roles in customer support and product development. Most recently, Laurent was CTO at Axway where he was responsible for R&D, Innovation and Product Management. He has also spent more than nine years in Silicon Valley, working for Business Objects and then SAP. Laurent holds an engineering degree in mathematics and computer science from EISTI.
Eric Johnson
Chief Information OfficerEric joined Talend as Chief Information Officer in 2018. Prior to Talend, he was the CIO of DocuSign, where he built the company’s IT vision, infrastructure design, and led its global organization. Eric spent more than a decade at Informatica in increasingly senior IT roles, most recently as Senior Vice President and CIO.
Ciaran Dynes
Senior Vice President of ProductCiaran is responsible for Talend's product roadmap, product strategy and works with customers to understand their requirements. Before joining our team, he held a series of roles at leading integration software vendors including Progress Software and IONA Technologies. He holds a degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin.
Aaron Ross
General CounselBefore joining Talend, Aaron held senior in-house legal roles at Flex, Atmel, and Technicolor. Earlier in his career, he was an associate in the London and Paris offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and the San Francisco offices of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. Aaron has a B.A. in Philosophy from Cornell and a J.D. from the U.C. Berkeley School of Law.
John Brennan
John Brennan is a Managing Director and a co-founder of Sumeru Equity Partners. He was part of the leadership team of Silver Lake Sumeru, the middle market investment strategy of Silver Lake. Mr. Brennan has two decades of operating and investing experience in the technology sector. He serves on Silver Lake Sumeru's investment committee and continues to maintain responsibility for managing the SLS portfolio.
Nanci Caldwell
Ms. Caldwell is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of PeopleSoft Inc. Prior, she spent nearly two decades at Hewlett-Packard in increasingly senior and executive sales and marketing roles in Canada, U.S and globally. A highly sought after corporate director, Caldwell currently sits on the boards of CIBC, Citrix, Equinix, and Donnelly Financial Solutions.
Nora Denzel
Ms. Denzel is the former interim CEO of Outerwall. Prior to that position, she served as the Senior Vice President of Big Data at Intuit and held several executive roles at HP Enterprise including SVP of HP's Global Enterprise Software Business. Denzel currently sits on the boards of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Ericsson. She is also Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Anita Borg Institute, a non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of women in computing.
Pat Jones
Pat Jones is currently Chairman of the Board of InsideSecure SA, an embedded security solutions company based in France. He has had considerable independent board member experience with a variety of technology companies, including software companies like Openwave Systems and Novell Inc. He was CFO of Gemplus SA (now Gemalto) as the company completed its IPO. Before that, he was VP Finance-Corporate Controller of Intel Corp , and was CFO of LSI Logic prior to that. Pat started his career at IBM and has lived and worked in Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Steve Singh
Steve Singh is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Docker. Prior to Docker, Singh was a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE and President, Business Networks and Applications, a division of SAP that included Concur, SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass. In addition to his Docker commitments, Singh currently serves as chairman of the board of Center ID and is on the board of Modumetal.
Thierry Sommelet
Thierry Sommelet is Managing Director within the Mid & Large Cap division of Bpifrance Investissements, the private equity arm of the French public investment bank (formerly known as Fonds Stratégique d’Investissement, or “FSI”). Prior to joining FSI, he spearheaded investments of Caisse des Dépôts, a French public entity, in telecom infrastructure projetcts and digital services. Before that Thierry held different positions with HSBC, in Paris and New York, Los Altos-based Renaissance Software (now part of Sungard) and media company InfosCE. Thierry graduated from ENPC civil engineering school in Paris and holds an MBA from Insead.
Mike Tuchen
Chief Executive OfficerA seasoned executive with deep experience in marketing and product strategy, Mike has been leading Talend since 2013. Previously, he was the CEO of Rapid7, which he took through a dramatic expansion in marketing, sales, partnerships, and product. Before that, he served as the General Manager of Microsoft's SQL Server Marketing team. Mike has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, and an M.B.A. from Harvard.
Brian Lillie
Brian Lillie is the Chief Product Officer of Equinix. Prior to that, Mr. Lillie was the company’s Chief Information Officer. Before joining Equinix, Mr. Lillie held strategic leadership roles at Verisign, including Vice President of Global Sales Operations. Previously, Mr. Lillie was an officer with the United States Air Force for nearly a decade, serving as commander of a communications squadron.
Mark Nelson
Mark Nelson is the Executive Vice President of Product Development of Tableau. Previously he was CTO at Concur where he was responsible for all aspects of product development as well as hosting operations for their SaaS services and Concur's internal IT function. Mr. Nelson also spent more than 16 years as Vice President and Architect at Oracle, where his last role was responsible for much of Oracle's cloud infrastructure.