Leadership | Splunk

Gary Steele (he/him)

President, Go-to-Market, Cisco
GM, Splunk

Gary Steele is Cisco’s President, Go-to-Market, leading a unified organization across Cisco’s Sales, Partner, and Global Marketing teams to accelerate customer outcomes and drive growth across the enterprise. In addition, Gary leads Splunk at Cisco. A highly regarded technology executive with over 30 years of experience, he has a proven track record of successfully scaling SaaS operations and growing multi-billion dollar global enterprises. Prior to joining Splunk, Gary was the founding CEO of Proofpoint, where he led the company’s growth from an early-stage start-up to a leading, publicly traded security-as-a-service provider. He previously served as CEO of Portera and held various leadership roles at Sybase, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. Gary has also served as a member of the board of directors of Upwork, a talent freelancing platform, since 2018. He holds a B.S. from Washington State University.

Tom Casey (he/him)

Senior Vice President, Products & Technology

Tom Casey is the Senior Vice President, Products & Technology for Splunk. With over 25 years of experience, Tom is responsible for evolving Splunk’s market-leading unified security and observability platform. Prior to joining Splunk, he served as Senior Vice President, Engineering at DocuSign, where he led the company’s product strategy, including development, execution and delivery of all products worldwide. Prior to DocuSign, Tom served as Vice President, Platform and Infrastructure at Apptio, where he helped scale the Company’s SaaS platform from a single offering to a multi-product portfolio. Before that, he spent 16 years at Microsoft in a number of leadership positions in product and engineering. He holds a B.S. from the University of Arizona.

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Claire Hockin (she/her)

Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer

Claire Hockin is the Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer for Splunk. With nearly 25 years of experience, she leads all aspects of the global marketing organization to build reputation, engagement and demand for Splunk. Prior to joining Splunk, Claire held leadership positions within global product, technology, and consulting organizations including Infosys, Accenture and Capgemini in Europe, Asia Pacific and North America. She holds a B.S. from Southampton University.

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Emily Killam (she/her)

Senior Vice President, Go-to-Market Operations

Emily Killam is the Senior Vice President of Go-to-Market Operations for Splunk. With over 20 years of sales experience, she is responsible for leading all facets of operational excellence across sales, customer success and marketing in support of the go-to-market organization. Prior to joining Splunk, Emily spent eight years at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in sales strategy leadership roles in which she directed shared services and business operations for its multibillion-dollar worldwide public sector and strategic industries organizations. Prior to AWS, she served as a finance leader with Raytheon Technologies Corporation and in sales roles with AccuWeather and The Hershey Company. Emily holds a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University.

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Ammar Maraqa (he/him)

Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer

Ammar Maraqa is the Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer for Splunk. With over 25 years of experience, he leads strategy, corporate development, pricing and monetization, and the CISO organization. Prior to joining Splunk, Ammar served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Cisco Systems, held various product and operations roles at Dell and was a senior associate at Bain & Company. He holds B.S. degrees from the Wharton and Engineering schools at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.

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Toni Pavlovich (she/her)

Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Officer

Toni Pavlovich is the Senior Vice President, Chief Customer Officer for Splunk. With over 30 years of experience, she is responsible for championing customer experience while fostering a customer-first mindset and culture across Splunk. Prior to joining Splunk, Toni served as Vice President of Global Business Critical Services and Vice President of Technical Sales and Professional Services for Veritas Technologies. Prior to Veritas, she spent 11 years at Symantec in strategic leadership roles driving delivery excellence in Technical Sales and Professional Services, and transforming Global Support. Toni has also held leadership positions with Oracle and Interactive Development Environments and previously served as an avionics engineer for Lockheed Aeronautical Systems. She holds a B.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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Christian T. Smith (he/him)

Senior Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer

Christian Smith is the Senior Vice President, Chief Revenue Officer for Splunk. With more than 25 years of experience, he is responsible for all commercial business worldwide including global sales, renewals, sales engineering as well as partnerships and alliances. Prior to joining Splunk, Christian served as Chief Revenue Officer for Nintex and led its global go-to-market including sales, channel programs, field marketing as well as customer success and support. He also held leadership roles at Oracle, ATG and Daptiv. Christian has served as a member of the board of directors of Atlassian, a team collaboration and productivity software provider, since January 2025. He holds a B.A. from the University of Washington.

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