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It’s that time of month again–time for Big Data Career Notes, a monthly feature where we keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details. Check in each month for an updated list and you may even come across someone you know, or better yet, yourself!
Matthew Archuleta
Matthew Archuleta
AI and HPC control plane developer Parallel Works announced that it has hired Matthew Archuleta to be its new vice president of operations. The U.S. Army Green Beret joins Parallel Works from Connecticut Innovations, where he served as a senior investment associate, managing venture capital investments across AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and defense tech.
Prior to his work in venture capital, Archuleta served as a U.S. Army Special Forces officer and Infantry officer, commanding elite teams in West Africa and the Middle East. He was awarded the Bronze Star for his leadership in Afghanistan and has been featured in The New York Times and Poets & Quants for his contributions to both national defense and business.
“I’m excited to join the Parallel Works team,” Archuleta said. “Every enterprise needs high-performance computing to compete in the age of AI. Parallel Works has the experience and vision to transition companies into the future right now. I look forward to leading the operations, building scalable systems and empowering our teams to deliver transformative results across engineering, science, and national security.”
Mike Berry
Mike Berry
MongoDB has appointed Mike Berry to be its new chief financial officer, where he will lead the public company’s accounting, FPA&, treasury, and investor relations effort. Berry joins MongoDB from NetApp, where he recently retired after five years as CFO. He previously was CFO at McAfee, FireEye, Informatica, IO. Solarwinds, and i2 Technologies.
“I’m thrilled to join MongoDB at such an exciting moment in its growth journey,” Berry said. “While it was not my intention to pursue another CFO role when we announced my retirement from NetApp, the opportunity to join a company the caliber of MongoDB was incredibly compelling. I can’t wait to get started in late May and I look forward to working with the team to create long-term value for our customers, shareholders, and employees.”
Carter Page
Carter Page
Astronomer, the company behind Apache Airflow, announced that Carter Page has joined the company as executive vice president of research and development. The former engineer from Google and Two Sigma brings more than 25 years of enterprise leadership to help the company continue developing its DataOps platform.
“Top engineering talent is drawn to opportunities to build things that change the way the world works,” Page said. “I have built world-class services and business applications and understand that the complexity and size of data needs is growing exponentially inside of companies across every industry. Given the breadth of the point solutions in the data space, there is a deep need to choreograph these capabilities in new ways to meet the growing challenges. The unified DataOps platform we are building at Astronomer will fix this issue for every business and unlock their ability to build data products of the future.”
Jitender Aswani
Jitender Aswani
Starburst has hired Jitender Aswani to be its new senior vice president of engineering. Aswani joins the data platform with more than 20 years of experience building and scaling high-performance technical teams, with deep expertise in machine learning, data infrastructure, and cloud technologies. In his new role, Aswani will lead Starburst’s global engineering organization and drive innovation across its modern data platform for apps and AI. He will report directly to Starburst CEO and Co-Founder, Justin Borgman.
“Starburst is at the forefront of a massive shift in how companies build and scale AI, and I’m incredibly excited to join a team that’s enabling that transformation,” Aswani said. “As a data platform for apps and AI built on a data lakehouse architecture, Starburst is uniquely positioned to accelerate AI from development to deployment and I’m thrilled to contribute to that mission.”
Allan Christian
Allan Christian
Precisely has promoted Allan Christian to be its new senior vice president and general manager of its Engage business unit, where he will lead global strategy, product innovation, and go-to-market efforts for Precisely’s customer communications solutions. Christian, who was previously the vice president of engineering and CTO for Engage, will report to Precisely CMO and EVP, Engage Kevin Ruane.
“This is an exciting opportunity to transform the way we think about customer engagement. Emerging initiatives like intelligent interactivity and agentic AI have the potential to identify new insights and generate greater benefits and efficiencies for organizations,” Christian said. “We are committed to innovating and empowering businesses to deliver authentic, data-driven communications across any channel.”
Sumeet Arora
Sumeet Arora
Teradata has named Sumeet Arora as its newest chief product officer, where he will lead the analytic vendors entire product strategy. Previously serving as Teradata’s chief development officer, Arora brings more than 25 years in product development across industry-leading tech brands, including previous stints at ThoughtSpot and Cisco.
“With its Trusted AI, analytics, and data capabilities that work across both on-prem and multi-cloud environments, Teradata is uniquely positioned to enable customers to get value from all of their data,” Arora said. “I am excited to collaborate with the entire Teradata team to accelerate product innovation and be the best development partner for our customers as they leverage AI and data to deliver transformative business outcomes.”
Chad Gold
Chad Gold
Behavioral data company Fullstory has appointed Chad Gold as its new chief financial officer. Gold joins the company Atlanta, Georgia-based company with more than 20 years of financial leadership experience, including roles as CFO at G2 and Salesloft.
As CFO, Gold will focus on driving Fullstory’s growth in the enterprise market and work closely with the leadership team to help support Fullstory’s recent launch of new behavioral data solution powered by AI agents.
“Fullstory is in a prime position to lead the charge in AI innovation, thanks to the unmatched depth and quality of our behavioral data,” Gold said. “Businesses increasingly turn to AI to drive transformation, and I’m excited to contribute to that momentum.”
George Gerchow
George Gerchow
Bedrock Security, a provider of data security management solutions, has appointed George Gerchow as its new Chief Security Officer. As CSO, Gerchow, who previously servsed as interim CISO at MongoDB and CSO at Sumo Logic, will be tasked with helping Bedrock spread its metadata lake technology into enterprise accounts..
“Data remains elusive and difficult to inventory. Bedrock’s unique metadata lake approach brings unprecedented visibility and control for organizations as they navigate responsible AI implementation,” Gerchow said. “I look forward to helping organizations address the exponential challenges of data security in cloud and AI environments while expanding our footprint in highly regulated industries.”
Nadeem Asghar
Nadeem Ashgar
SingleStore has promoted Nadeem Asghar to the position of CTO. A 25-year veteran of the IT industry, with stops at companies like Cloudera, Hortonworks, Capgemini, and Morgan Stanley, Asghar was instrumental in helping evolve SingleStore from a high-performance database into a hybrid data and AI platform.
“Nadeem’s relentless focus on innovation has transformed SingleStore from a database to a fully hybrid data and AI platform – offering the impeccable performance our customers need for enterprise AI,” said Raj Verma, CEO of SingleStore.
“SingleStore is much more than a database; we are the brain and memory of AI agents, clearing away any impediments to enterprise AI and empowers organizations to bring their boldest, most innovative ideas to life,” Asghar said. “Together with our technology partners like Snowflake, IBM, Confluent, Anthropic and AWS, we’re pushing the boundaries of what’s possible to achieve with AI, and this year we’ll unveil even more innovation to make us the ultimate AI platform for building real-time intelligent apps and agents.”
Sanjay Macwan
Sanjay Macwan
Sprinklr, the unified customer experience management platform, has appointed Sanjay Macwan to be its new chief information officer, a role that will see him lead the company’s global IT, enterprise security, and data infrastructure strategy. The 30-year IT industry veteran was most recently the CIO and CISO at Vonage Holdings Corp.
“I am excited to be joining Sprinklr at such an important moment in its transformation,” said Macwan. “Sprinklr has an inspiring vision for customer experience, which is fundamental to every growing enterprise. It has a differentiated AI-native platform and an impressive roster of customers, with a clear opportunity to scale strategically and securely, and I look forward to working in partnership with the leadership team and Sprinklr teammates across the company to help strengthen our technology and security posture and enable our customers to unlock the full value of what Sprinklr can deliver.”
Mike Moss
Mike Moss
Redis has announced that it has hired Mike Moss to be its new senior vice president of worldwide partner sales. Moss, who previously led partner positions at MongoDB, Dell/EMC, and BMC Software, will lead the strategic expansion of Redis’ partner ecosystem, focusing on amplifying the company’s network of cloud partners, developer engagement, and system integrator relationships to drive global technological innovation.
“Redis empowers developers to build cutting-edge, high-performance applications across web, mobile, and AI by providing a lightning-fast, innovative data speed layer that accelerates development and unleashes technological potential,” Moss said. “We’re in an incredible position to help our partners and customers realize their AI ambitions, so the opportunities ahead of us are virtually boundless. I look forward to exploring every avenue to work in concert with new and existing partners to bring our technology to customers building next generation apps.”
To read last month’s edition of Career Notes, click here.
Vendors:
Astronomer, bedrock security, Fullstory, MongoDB, Parallel Works, Precisely, Redis, SingleStore, Sprinklr, Starburst, Teradata
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