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It’s that point of month once more–time for Large Knowledge Profession Notes, a month-to-month function the place we hold you recent on the newest profession developments for people within the huge information group. Whether or not it’s a promotion, new firm rent, and even an accolade, we’ve bought the main points. Verify in every month for an up to date checklist and you could even come throughout somebody you understand, or higher but, your self!
Tom Siebel
Tom Siebel
Tom Siebel, the CEO, chairman, and founding father of C3.ai, has instructed the corporate’s board to start in search of a successor to Siebel as head of the publicly traded firm following his diagnoses with an sickness.
“After being identified with an autoimmune illness in early 2025, I’ve skilled vital visible impairment,” Siebel acknowledged. “For C3 AI to succeed in its full potential–which I consider is spectacular–the board and I’ve initiated a seek for a brand new CEO who can take the corporate to the following stage of development and success. I’ll stay absolutely engaged as Chief Government Officer of C3.ai till such time because the C3.ai board appoints my successor after which I’ll proceed within the function of Government Chairman specializing in technique, product innovation, strategic accomplice and buyer relationships.”
Siebel, who’s credited with spearheading the marketplace for buyer relationship administration software program together with his founding of Siebel Techniques in 1993, based C3 in 2009 to benefit from the shift to AI. Siebel agreed to promote his CRM firm to Oracle in 2005 for $5.85 billion.
Christopher Manning
Christopher Manning
Christopher Manning, famend Stanford AI Lab Director and one of many world’s most cited NLP researchers, has joined AIX Ventures as a basic accomplice, a place that may enable him to assist information the enterprise capital agency with its AI investments.
Manning has spent greater than 25 years at Stanford College, the place he’s at present on a go away of absence. He based the Stanford NLP Group, led the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) and co-founded Stanford’s Institute for Human‑Centered Synthetic Intelligence (HAI). He was elected each to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the Nationwide Academy of Engineering this yr.
“We’re coming into a brand new period the place deep AI programs will essentially reshape how we work together with expertise and information,” Manning acknowledged. “Becoming a member of AIX Ventures as a Basic Accomplice permits me to assist the following era of founders constructing the instruments and infrastructure that may outline that future.”
Matt DeBergalis
Matt DeBergalis
Apollo, the corporate behind GraphQL, has promoted Co-founder Matt DeBergalis from the CTO function to be its new CEO. DeBergalis will change outgoing CEO, Apollo Co-founder Geoff Schmidt, who was the creator of GraphQL Federation (together with Martijn Walraven). Schmidt will stay with the corporate and shift to a expertise centered function.
“As I’ve shared in my writing and talks through the years, I’ve been obsessive about getting GraphQL into the palms of each developer who’s wrestling with API complexity,” DeBergalis wrote in a weblog publish. “Now as CEO, I get to focus fully on accelerating that mission. The infrastructure we’ve constructed is dealing with billions of requests each day for firms whose merchandise you employ each day. Now we’re able to scale that influence.
Scott Strubel
Scott Strubel
Smartsheet, the AI-powered work administration platform, has promoted Scott Strubel as the corporate’s new head of Americas partnerships to assist form the following era of its accomplice program all through Canada, the US, and Latin America. Most lately, he served as a vp with Darktrace, a British cybersecurity agency.
Strubel can be referred to as on to play a key function in increasing the corporate’s attain all through the Americas area together with his deep understanding of constructing profitable relationships with companions, together with distributors and resellers, system integrators, ISVs, OEMs and MSPs.
Beforehand, Strubel led international industrial gross sales for Hitachi Vantara, international gross sales for NetApp software program and US gross sales for HP software program. He has additionally led the worldwide accomplice group for Commvault.
Jake Bengtson
Jake Bengston
Striim has employed Jake Bengtson to be its vp of AI options. Bengston has greater than a decade of expertise within the enterprise AI enterprise, with stops at ExxonMobil, Farmers Edge, and Brevium. He joins the streaming information firm from Cloudera, the place he helped developed the corporate’s technique for AI, machine studying, and trusted AI options.
In his new function, Bengston can be referred to as on to assist construct strategic depth, present business and buyer alignment, drive AI software innovation, and promote market management, Striim says.
“Striim is already doing what most firms are nonetheless attempting to determine–delivering real-time, reliable information at scale,” Bengtson acknowledged. “Becoming a member of a workforce that’s not simply speaking about AI readiness, however enabling it each day, is what made this a straightforward resolution. I’m excited to assist push the boundaries even additional.”
Chris Niederman
Chris Niederman
Chris Niederman has been employed as senior vp of alliances and channels at Snowflake, a place that may put him in control of an ecosystem consisting of greater than 12,000 international companions, together with main cloud suppliers, expertise innovators, and system integrators.
Niederman joins Snowflake with greater than 30 years of expertise expertise of constructing and scaling partnership organizations, together with 11 years at AWS, the place he was the managing director of the AWS Industries and Options workforce. Niederman has additionally held accomplice gross sales positions at VMware.
“All through my profession, I’ve seen how a thriving accomplice ecosystem and partner-led development immediately influence buyer success,” stated Niederman. “Snowflake’s companions are on the forefront of innovation, extending the ability of the AI Knowledge Cloud and enabling our joint prospects to unlock most worth from their information and drive enterprise outcomes. I stay up for attending to work, assembly our companions and prospects within the area, and deepening these important relationships to speed up our joint successes.”
Matt Parson
Matt Parson
Matt Parson has joined analytic vendor SAS as govt vp and chief monetary officer. Parson succeeds long-time CFO David Davis, who’s retiring after practically 40 years of service at SAS.
As CFO, Parson will lead SAS’ international monetary technique, together with forecasting, planning, capital administration and investor engagement. He may also assist form operational priorities that assist scalable development, market growth and long-term worth creation.
“I’m honored to affix SAS because it builds momentum for the long run,” stated Parson. “The corporate’s fame for innovation and buyer influence is well-earned, and I stay up for partnering with the management workforce to construct on that momentum and assist the following section of development.”
Kevin Egan
Kevin Egan (proper) with ClickHouse CEO Aaron Katz (left)
Business veteran Kevin Egan has joined real-time analytics database supplier ClickHouse as its new chief income officer. Egan joins ClickHouse with over 20 years of expertise constructing and main enterprise gross sales organizations at Atlassian, Slack, Dropbox, and Salesforce, and can be tasked with driving income on the agency, which raised a $350 million Collection C in Might 2025 that valued the corporate at $6.35 billion.
“I’m extremely excited to affix ClickHouse at such a pivotal time,” stated Egan. “As organizations navigate how one can compete and thrive within the AI period, ClickHouse is rising because the de facto database powering the real-time, scalable analytics that AI-driven functions demand. I stay up for constructing robust relationships not solely with forward-thinking prospects, but in addition with our channel and expertise companions—working collectively to assist companies modernize their information infrastructure and unlock transformative outcomes with this foundational expertise.”
Arvind Krishnan
Arvind Krishnan
Arvind Krishnan has been employed to be the chief expertise officer on the analytics agency Alteryx. In his new place, Krishan can be tasked with driving the Alteryx product roadmap ahead because it deepens cloud partnerships to assist with buyer AI adoption.
Previous to becoming a member of Alteryx, Krishnan served as CTO at Bluecore, the place he led distributed engineering groups and sophisticated cloud-native initiatives. He additionally held senior management roles at Salesforce, the place he spent over a decade scaling product growth throughout a number of cloud merchandise.
“Becoming a member of Alteryx at this transformative stage is a novel alternative to construct the way forward for enterprise analytics and AI,” Krishnan acknowledged. “I’m energized by the corporate’s imaginative and prescient and the caliber of the engineering group. Collectively, we’ll proceed to advance an open, scalable, and ruled platform that helps prospects innovate with confidence.”
Pete DeJoy
Pete DeJoy
Astronomer promoted Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy to the place of Interim CEO following the sudden departure of its earlier chief govt, Andy Byron, following an incident that occurred in Boston at a music live performance (which you might have heard about).
DeJoy has been with Astronomer, the industrial vendor behind the open supply Apache Airflow information pipeline mission, since he co-founded it in 2017 with Ry Walker, Viraj Parekh, Greg Neiheisel, and Paola Peraza Calderon. As the corporate grew, DeJoy took the titles of VP of product, SVP of product, and at last chief product officer earlier this yr.
DeJoy took a philosophical strategy to the shock departure of Byron throughout the third week of July, which garnered worldwide consideration for Byron, Astronomer’s head of HR, Kristin Cabot, and the corporate at massive.
“The occasions of the previous few days have acquired a stage of media consideration that few firms–not to mention startups in our small nook of the info and AI world–ever encounter,” he acknowledged on LinkedIn. “The highlight has been uncommon and surreal for our workforce and, whereas I might by no means have wished for it to occur like this, Astronomer is now a family title.”
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