Godfrey Sullivan

Former Member of the Board of Directors of Splunk Inc.

CrowdStrike named Godfrey Sullivan to its board of directors in November 2017. From 2011 to 2019, Mr. Sullivan served as a member of the board of directors of Splunk Inc. and was president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Splunk from 2008 to 2015. During his tenure as CEO, Mr. Sullivan led Splunk’s initial public offering (IPO) as the first big data company to enter the public market, largely hailed as one of the most successful technology IPOs in recent history.

Mr. Sullivan brings more than 30 years of technology and business leadership experience including serving as president and CEO of Hyperion Solutions and in senior leadership positions at Autodesk and Apple. Mr. Sullivan serves on the boards of directors of Marqeta, Inc., a modern card issuing company, and GitLab, Inc., a DevOps software company. He previously served on the boards of directors of Citrix Systems, Inc., an enterprise software company; Informatica Corporation, an enterprise data management company; People.ai, a privately held AI revenue intelligence platform company, and RingCentral, Inc., a provider of cloud-based communications and collaboration solutions. He holds a B.B.A. from Baylor University.