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MEET THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE
YOUR DATA MORE VALUABLE.

We see great things for the future of data. Then we make them happen.

Management team

Christal Bemont
Chief Executive Officer

Christal joins Talend as a seasoned executive with a demonstrated track record in defining and leading sales and go-to-market strategies to significantly scale cloud businesses. Previously, she spent 15 years at SAP Concur, most recently leading its $2B business organization as Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to her CRO appointment, Christal was Senior Vice President and General Manager of SAP Concur’s Small, Midsized and Nationals (SMN) business unit. Early in her career, Christal served in a number of capacities focused on operational and technical roles at Motorola, Extensity, and Clarify.

Adam Meister
Chief Financial Officer

Adam joined Talend as Chief Financial Officer in 2018, bringing with him an in-depth knowledge of the software industry and strong capital markets expertise. Prior to Talend, Adam served as a Managing Director in the Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs where he focused on advising and leading transaction execution for software clients.

Laurent Bride
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer

When 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 the Silicon Valley, working for Business Objects and then SAP. Laurent holds an engineering degree in mathematics and computer science from EISTI.

Lauren Vaccarello
Chief Marketing Officer

Lauren joins Talend with a lengthy track record of accelerating revenue growth at some of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing SaaS companies through modern digital marketing, branding, and demand generation programs. Previously, she served as Vice President of Marketing at Box and has also held executive roles at AdRoll and Salesforce. 

Ann-Christel Graham
Chief Revenue Officer

Ann-Christel is responsible for Talend’s worldwide sales and channel operations. Prior to joining Talend, Ann-Christel was SAP Concur’s vice president sales, enterprise clients. She was part of the leadership team from Concur which was acquired by SAP in 2014. Ann-Christel brings over two decades of experience in SaaS enterprise sales from a global, regional, and sales engineer perspective.

Michelle Sitzman
Chief People Officer

Michelle joined Talend in 2019 bringing with her extensive experience in talent management. As Chief People Officer, she leads Talend’s global People and Workspaces teams. Prior to Talend, Michelle held People leadership roles in several of Silicon Valley’s fastest growing companies, including Equinix, VMware and most recently LinkedIn.

Jamie Kiser
Chief Customer Officer

Jamie leads all of Talend’s customer facing functions, including customer support, professional services, customer success management, and subscription management.  Previously, she served over six years with SAP Concur in various product, services, and implementation roles where she was most recently vice president, global public sector.  Prior to joining SAP Concur, Jamie worked as an analyst for Dell and in implementation and R&D for Northrop Grumman.

Ciaran Dynes
Senior Vice President of Product

Ciaran 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.

Jake Stein
Senior Vice President, Stitch

Jake joined Talend following the acquisition of Stitch, where he was Co-Founder and CEO. In his current role of Senior Vice President at Talend, Jake oversees Stitch as well as Talend’s other frictionless go-to-market initiatives. Prior to Stitch, he co-founded RJMetrics, which went onto be acquired by Magento in July 2016. Jake graduated from Wharton with high honors and a degree in entrepreneurship and finance.

Aaron Ross
General Counsel

Before 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.

Board of Directors

Christal Bemont

Christal Bemont is the Chief Executive Officer of Talend. She is a seasoned executive with a demonstrated track record in defining and leading sales and go-to-market strategies to significantly scale cloud businesses. Previously, she spent 15 years at SAP Concur, most recently leading its $2B business organization as Chief Revenue Officer. Prior to her CRO appointment, Christal was Senior Vice President and General Manager of SAP Concur’s Small, Midsized and Nationals (SMN) business unit. Early in her career, Christal served in a number of capacities focused on operational and technical roles at Motorola, Extensity, and Clarify.

Elizabeth Fetter

Elizabeth Fetter, a three-time public CEO, brings significant leadership and technology experience to Talend, having worked for companies in networking and B2B SaaS spaces. She previously served as CEO for Symmetricom Inc., QRS Corporation, and Jacent Technologies. Ms. Fetter is currently a director on a number of corporate, non-profit and advisory boards, including McGrath RentCorp, Fox Factory Holding Corp, and the National Association of Corporate Directors.

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.

Steve Singh

Steve Singh serves as a Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group. Previously Mr. Singh, has served as Chairman & CEO of Docker, as a member of the Executive Board of SAP SE running the SAP Cloud Business Group, and as Chairman & CEO of Concur. Mr. Singh currently serves as Chairman of Talend, Executive Chairman of Center ID, Chairman of Modumetal, and a director at Clari, WaFd Bank and DocuSign.

Mike Tuchen

Mike Tuchen served as Talend’s Chief Executive Officer from 2013 to January 2020. Prior to joining Talend, he served as the CEO of Rapid7 and led the company through a dramatic expansion of its marketing, sales, partnerships and product line. A former Microsoft executive and seasoned marketing and product strategist, he also served as the General Manager of Microsoft's SQL Server Marketing team. Mike received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Brown University, M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

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.

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.

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.

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