Leadership

Mark Anderson is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Alteryx.

Prior to Alteryx, Mark was president of Palo Alto Networks where he and the team grew the company from pre-IPO in 2012 to become one of the largest security companies in the world. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Mark led sales and go-to-market initiatives at F5 Networks where he was instrumental in driving the company’s long-term, sustained hyper-growth.

For the past two years, Mark also served on the Alteryx Board of Directors. During his tenure on the Alteryx board, Mark played an active role in the company’s operations and strategy. Mark also served as the executive chairman at Avi Networks, a private, multi-cloud ADC innovator in Silicon Valley (acquired by VMWare in 2019), and has served on the board of directors for Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET) since Aug. 2019.

Earlier in his career, Mark held leadership positions at Cisco Systems and Lucent Technologies. He holds a B.A. in business and economics from York University in Toronto.

Paula Hansen is the president and chief revenue officer (CRO) of Alteryx and is responsible for leading the global go-to-market (GTM) organization, which includes worldwide sales, systems engineering, partners/alliances, marketing, customer success and services, customer support functions and industry-specific GTM initiatives. With more than 25 years of leadership experience with high-growth market expansion, business model evolution, partner ecosystems and customer success, Paula will be instrumental in driving Alteryx into its next phase of growth. Additionally, Paula’s track record of recruiting, hiring and promoting strong leaders across the globe, and building high-performing teams with strong employee engagement, trust, followership and retention will be key as Alteryx continues to scale globally.

Prior to joining Alteryx, Paula was the CRO of SAP Customer Experience where she led the global sales strategy, GTM operations and customer success. Her team served more than 10,000 customers across 150 countries and grew the business to $1 billion of annual recurring revenue in 2020, SAP’s fastest growing cloud portfolio. Before joining SAP in 2019, Paula served as vice president of Cisco’s Global Enterprise organization, a $2B business focused on digital transformation enablement for global enterprise customers across a variety of industries. Paula also served on the board of directors of Qualtrics, the leading provider of experience management (NASDAQ: XM) solutions, from December 2020 to May 2021.

Paula holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Kevin Rubin is the chief financial officer (CFO) of Alteryx, responsible for all aspects of its global financial operations, including finance, accounting, tax, treasury, investor relations, corporate development and Alteryx Ventures, and global real estate and workplace services. Kevin brings 20+ years of experience in the industry, leading both public and private technology companies through rapid growth and expansion.

Before joining Alteryx, Kevin was CFO of MSC Software, a private equity-backed software company. Kevin was responsible for managing MSC through significant transitions, including launching and navigating the company’s shift to a subscription-based model. Kevin also led the transformation of financial and business operations to support MSC’s growth as well as strategic activities including debt and recapitalizations transactions, and mergers and acquisitions.

Kevin previously served as CFO for Pictage, a venture-backed software company; DataDirect Networks, a data storage equipment provider; and MRV Communications, a publicly traded telecommunications equipment provider. Kevin started his career at Arthur Andersen as a member of its Technology Practice working with a broad range of small, privately held companies to large, publicly traded organizations. Kevin currently serves on the board of directors of Forum for Corporate Directors (FCD) and Pretend City.

Kevin is a certified public accountant (inactive) in California and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in business economics with an emphasis in accounting from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Suresh Vittal is the chief product officer (CPO) of Alteryx and is responsible for the strategic vision of Alteryx’s leading analytics and data science innovation. Suresh leads the Product Management, Engineering and Development organizations, playing a critical role in the company’s cloud, data science and analytics automation product strategy. His experience driving cloud transformation for leading software companies is helping Alteryx make machine learning and artificial intelligence easily accessible to citizen users.

Suresh embraces a product-led growth strategy and drives an innovation agenda focused on delighting customers and accelerating their transformation journeys. With over 20 years of experience at various size and stage companies, Suresh has led teams across platform and product strategy, product marketing, pricing, packaging and go-to-market strategy. Most recently, he was responsible for overseeing product management, product marketing and go-to-market strategy for Adobe’s Digital Experience business, including Adobe Experience Cloud, one of the most comprehensive set of applications helping brands drive digital transformation.

Suresh joined Adobe through the company’s acquisition of Neolane in 2013, where he served as chief product officer. Before Neolane, he was instrumental in building and scaling the Customer Intelligence practice at Forrester Research, where his research agenda focused on enterprise marketing technologies, database marketing strategies and customer analytics. Prior to joining Forrester in 2006, Suresh spent several years working at SPSS and NetGenesis. An industry thought-leader, Suresh regularly speaks on digital marketing, cross-channel campaign management, the intersection of data and creativity and the future of real-time enterprises.

Suresh holds a master’s degree in business administration from Greenwich College, The University of Hull in the United Kingdom, as well as a master’s degree of science in computer information systems from Bentley College.

Doniel Sutton is Chief People Officer at Alteryx. Doniel leads all human resource-related functions, including, talent strategy, total rewards, talent acquisition, development, culture, and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

A values-driven human resources executive, Doniel brings more than 20 years of strategic and global human resources leadership experience at Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies, including Fastly, PayPal, Prudential, Bank of America, and Honeywell. Her career has been hallmarked by partnering with business executives to transform organizations, implement new business models, and execute global people strategies.

Doniel’s data-driven, collaborative and product management approach combined with a customer-first mindset has enabled her to strategically scale HR functions and build innovative, value-added experiences.

Doniel is a highly regarded and sought-after strategic HR thought leader with multiple features and accolades under her belt, including media coverage in Bloomberg, NY Times, CNBC, Profile Magazine and more. Among her many career achievements includes being recognized by Black Enterprise in 2017 as one of the 300 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America and being awarded the 2018 American Business Award’s Bronze “Stevie” HR Executive of the Year. Most recently, Doniel was named as one of the Top 50 Women Leaders in SaaS in 2021 by The Software Report.

Doniel holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Human Resources and an IL Bachelor of Science in Finance, both from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Olivia Duane Adams (Libby) is the chief advocacy officer (CAO) and co-founder of Alteryx, and one of only a handful of female founders to take a technology company public, along with her founding counterparts, Dean Stoecker and Ned Harding. Libby’s vision and leadership in the creation of the world’s leading data science and analytics community is a key factor in the company’s 24-year success. She is responsible for strengthening upskilling and reskilling efforts for Alteryx customers to enable a culture of analytics, scaling the presence of the Alteryx SparkED education program and furthering diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Under Libby’s leadership, the Alteryx Community has grown both on- and offline, serving as an incubator for the workforce of the future and empowering all workers to become data workers, with an intentional focus on supporting diversity in analytics. As the former chief customer officer, Libby recognized early on that creating a customer-centric culture went beyond delivering a successful product experience and set out to enable a global community of passionate data lovers, where Alteryx users can solve more together, boldly step into the unknown and achieve more than they ever thought possible. Today, Libby’s passion for customers holds strong as she works closely with Alteryx users and the global analytics community on key initiatives to diversify their workforces, upskill their people and deliver meaningful outcomes and insights in our ever-changing business world. Libby spearheads the Alteryx SparkED program, which provides free software and resources to learners of all skill levels to develop the analytics skills they need to question, understand and solve with data. SparkED is empowering thousands of students and job seekers with in-demand certifications that will set them up for success in their careers and beyond.

Before co-founding Alteryx, Libby held various sales, customer, and marketing roles at Strategic Mapping, Donnelley and VNU Business Media.

Libby earned a bachelor’s degree from Castleton University in Vermont and is an active member of the university’s alumni association.

Chris Lal is chief legal officer of Alteryx, responsible for all legal affairs, including intellectual property, licensing, contract negotiations, privacy, compliance, and corporate governance. Chris has over 20 years of experience as a corporate, transactions, and securities attorney representing both public and private companies in various phases of development and growth.

Before joining Alteryx, Chris was vice president, general counsel and secretary of Tilly’s, Inc., an NYSE-traded retail and ecommerce company, where he oversaw legal affairs related to SEC and NYSE compliance, intellectual property, Federal Trade Commission matters, e-commerce, and labor and employment. He managed complex litigation and was interim head of human resources. Before Tilly’s, Chris served as general counsel at Thompson National Properties and Sunstone Hotel Investors, helping these companies through various stages of growth and corporate change.

Chris began his career at O’Melveny & Myers, LLP, as a member of the corporate and securities practice, where he advised clients on public securities offerings and private placements, corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. Chris holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a J.D. from the University of Southern California.

As Alteryx’s Chief Information Officer, Trevor Schulze leads the global IT team in delivering a comprehensive, business-led technology services and solutions portfolio. He works to inspire global teams to envision and execute creative solutions to difficult business problems and successfully capitalize on new market opportunities. His focus is on transforming businesses through innovative operational and technology initiatives and bringing award-winning products to market.

Before joining Alteryx, Schulze served as RingCentral’s Chief Information Officer, leading a multinational team responsible for setting the company’s strategic IT direction and reimagining its business processes to support the business goals of growth and profitability. Prior to that, Schulze was Global CIO at Micron Technology, where he oversaw a global organization charged with delivering business capabilities that sped product time to market, improved customer engagement, optimized supply chain operations and maximized manufacturing capital utilization worldwide.

Schulze also served as Vice President IT, Enterprise Applications at Broadcom Corporation, where he was responsible for the strategic direction and management of all enterprise-wide IT systems supporting core business processes, and Corporate Vice President IT at Advanced Micro Devices, where he oversaw the deployment of enterprise technology solutions that improved global operations and product development.

Keith Pearce is the chief marketing officer (CMO) of Alteryx with responsibility for leading the product marketing, campaign management, creative, PR and corporate communications functions.

Keith has over 20 years of experience creating awareness and demand for enterprise software products. Driven by innovation and speed to market, Keith’s marketing background includes advancing market leadership within both existing and new categories, creating thought leadership, brand awareness, product positioning and strong influencer engagement.

Prior to Alteryx, Keith’s experience included start-ups (SpeechWorks), established multinational brands (Siemens), cloud software leadership (Salesforce) and SaaS transformation (Genesys) in a variety of technology markets. His global marketing experience consisted of having spent five years on international assignment in Paris, France.

Keith holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Florida and a master’s degree in international business from Georgetown University. He lives with his family in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Alan Jacobson is the chief data and analytics officer (CDAO) of Alteryx, driving key data initiatives and accelerating digital business transformation for the Alteryx global customer base.

As CDAO, Jacobson leads the company’s data science practice as a best-in-class example of how a company can get maximum leverage out of its data and the insights it contains. He is responsible for data management and governance, product and internal data, and use of the Alteryx Platform to drive continued growth.

Prior to joining Alteryx, Alan held a variety of leadership roles at Ford Motor Company across engineering, marketing, sales, and new business development; most recently leading a team of data scientists to drive digital transformation across the enterprise. As an Alteryx evangelist at Ford, Alan spent many years leveraging the Alteryx Platform across the company and witnessed first-hand the impact a culture of analytics can have on the bottom line and what it takes to succeed as a data-driven enterprise. Alan will extend his role as an evangelist to customers, helping data workers and business leaders alike foster a culture of analytics and deepen their investments in digital transformation strategies.

Alan was recognized as a top leader in the global automotive industry as an Automotive Hall of Fame Leadership & Excellence award winner and an Outstanding Engineer of the Year by the Engineering Society of Detroit and works with the National Academy of Engineering and other organizations as an advisor on data science topics.

Alan earned his bachelor’s degrees in engineering from the University of New Hampshire and received his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech.

Matthew Stauble is chief customer officer (CCO) of Alteryx and is responsible for developing and delivering customer strategy and ensuring customer growth and success as Alteryx continues to scale globally. He leads the customer success management, customer support, customer success advocacy and customer enablement functions at Alteryx. Matthew’s track record of leading customer organizations in high-growth companies and focus on value maximation for customers is key as Alteryx continues to ensure success for its passionate growing and expanding user base.

Matthew has over 20 years of experience in customer-centric roles where he accelerated growth for startups by building world-class infrastructure, processes and teams across customer organizations. His deep focus in global expansion, business process and technology optimization, and developing and recognizing human talent is driving the company’s customer strategy forward, as more data workers across the globe recognize the power of the analytic process automation.

Matthew spent nearly 10 years supporting customer organizations at Palo Alto Networks. In his roles at Palo Alto Networks, Matthew helped propel the company into its next stage of high growth, building the customer organization from 15 people to 1,200+ people and turning a startup that generated millions in revenue to a $4 billion company at the time of his departure. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, he was vice president of services at Innotas, where he was responsible for account management, delivery services, support and education. Matthew has also held similar positions at Hewlett-Packard (HP), Mercury (acquired by HP) and Kintana, where he launched the company’s customer support organization.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in clinical psychology from San Jose State University and resides with his family in Los Gatos, California.

Steve Brodrick is the chief transformation officer of Alteryx and is responsible for advising and leading our customers on their digital transformation journeys. He leads a team that engages with customers to maximize their analytics investments and generate positive impact at the global, regional and local levels.

Steve joins Alteryx with more than 25 years of experience focused on finance and business transformation efforts. Most recently, Steve served as Chief Financial Officer for Stanley Black & Decker’s Tools & Storage business, where he oversaw all finance functions, as well as led the overall transformation and performance resiliency efforts for the enterprise.

During his two-decade career with Stanley Black & Decker, Steve held a variety of leadership roles, including Chief Transformation & Analytics Officer, head of Corporate FP&A, and CFO for their Global Industrial & Automotive Repair and Security North America businesses. As the lead of Performance Resiliency, Steve worked with value stream leaders and global functions to identify, sequence and execute profit-enhancing ideas to create $500M in profit margin.

Prior to joining Stanley Black & Decker, he held financial management positions with United Technologies Corp., a technology product and service company.

Steve holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Bentley University and an Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Lucas Moody is chief information security officer (CISO) at Alteryx and is focused on protecting Alteryx products, customers, and the business from cyber threats.

Lucas is a technical security leader with a breadth of experience spanning enterprise software and consumer software companies across the technology, financial and retail sectors. He is a global-minded executive noted for his ability to drive security outcomes while enabling growing businesses to accelerate. His passion for technology, for security and for building amazing teams has helped companies to thrive during periods of hyper-growth and change.

Previously, Lucas was head of security technology at Twitter. He was vice president and CISO at Rubrik Inc. and held the same titles at Palo Alto Networks prior to that. With more than two decades in security leadership, Lucas has also held information security positions at eBay/PayPal, Intuit, KPMG and Oracle.

With strong technical and operations roots, Lucas brings extensive experience across all cyber security disciplines, including, security operations, risk management, engineering, fraud prevention, forensics and threat intelligence.

Digvijay Lamba (DV) is the chief technology officer (CTO) of Alteryx and is responsible for establishing our technology vision and strategy across our roadmaps, products, and customers. DV leads a team that builds technology and drives innovation. He is also focused on leading the integration and transformation of Alteryx’s product portfolio to be more connected, more cloud-centric, and easily accessed by various data workers—both technical and non-technical.

With more than 20 years of technical leadership experience in data and machine learning, DV has demonstrated real-world technical prowess in cloud-native, analytic technologies, and the broader cloud ecosystem. He has also been a founder and investor in the startup ecosystem for many years. DV joined Alteryx in 2021 through the company’s acquisition of Lore IO, a no-code analytics company, where he served as the founder and CEO. DV was also part of the founding team at Walmart Labs, and he served as chief architect at Kosmix, which Walmart acquired.

With a deep understanding of and experience in data analytics and data science platforms, DV is helping Alteryx deliver on its mission of helping every knowledge worker uncover insights in their data.

DV graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur with a computer science and engineering degree.

Chris Natali is the chief accounting officer (CAO) of Alteryx, responsible for global accounting operations, external reporting, tax, treasury and procurement. Chris brings 20+ years of experience, leading accounting and finance organizations in a diverse set of public companies through growth and transformation.

Before joining Alteryx, Chris was the assistant corporate controller for Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). At HPE, Chris was responsible for external reporting, corporate accounting, global accounting policies and procedures, Sarbanes Oxley compliance, mergers and acquisitions financial diligence and integration and revenue recognition. Chris played a lead role in the financial reporting and controllership areas through the separation of HPE from HP Inc.

Chris previously served as corporate controller for Gymboree where he helped drive the company’s outsourcing program for finance. Chris served as vice president, SEC reporting at Hyatt Hotels Corporation, where he led the financial reporting for the company’s successful IPO. Chris also served in numerous finance leadership positions both domestically and internationally at Hewitt Associates, and he began his career in the audit practices of Arthur Andersen and Deloitte.

Chris is a registered certified public accountant in Illinois and holds a bachelor’s degree in accountancy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Dean Stoecker is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Board. Dean founded Alteryx in 1997 and led the company as CEO through October 2020, achieving solid organic growth, and a successful IPO in March 2017.

Dean’s leadership and motivational skills, along with his ability to create, communicate, and realize a vision, were a driving force behind the company’s 20+ year success. The company’s performance since going public in 2017 is a direct result of the company’s ability to execute on delivering a transformational experience to customers of all sizes, and Dean’s unique vision and strategy around empowering every worker, regardless of technical acumen, to transform their data into actionable insights and drive meaningful business impact.

Dean serves as advisor to entrepreneurs and is an active philanthropist, creating the Alteryx for Good program to bring the thrill of solving real-world problems to nonprofits, educators, and local communities. Dean is passionate about humanizing the world of data science and analytics, which is evident in the company’s culture, extensive resources for continued education, and efforts to influence social change. Before co-founding Alteryx, Dean held various sales and business leadership roles at Strategic Mapping and Dun & Bradstreet. Dean earned his MBA from Pepperdine University and his undergraduate degree in international business from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Ned Harding is a founding partner of Alteryx and was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer until July of 2018.

In this role, he was responsible for developing technologies that improved the speed and capacity of the Alteryx platform and the creation of the self-service data analytics workflow. Ned has also developed proprietary compression algorithms that are estimated to have reduced the number of data CDs required for the 2000 U.S. Census audit from approximately 900 discs to 70. He has also led the development teams of core technologies for desktop and web-based count and fulfillment engines for large, record-level databases, including Experian’s 650-million-record National Vehicle database.

Before co-founding Alteryx, Ned was a senior software engineer at Qualitative Marketing Software, Inc. (QMSoft), a developer and manufacturer of database and turnkey direct marketing solutions, where he was the lead developer of several industry-leading products, including GeoStan and InfoStan. QMS was acquired by Group 1 Software, which was later acquired by Sagent Technology, then Pitney Bowes in 1999. Ned attended Simon’s Rock of Bard College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, a landmark in the early college movement, and the nation’s only college of liberal arts and sciences specifically designed for students of high school age.