SUMO LOGIC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founding Chief Strategy Officer
As Founding Chief Strategy Officer, Bruno Kurtic leads corporate strategy.
Before Sumo Logic, he served as vice president of product management for SIEM and log management products at SenSage. Before joining SenSage, Bruno developed and implemented growth strategies for large high-tech clients at the Boston Consulting Group. He spent six years at webMethods, where he was a product group director for two product lines, started the west coast engineering team and played a key role in the acquisition of Active Software Inc. Bruno also served at Andersen Consulting's Center for Strategic Technology in Palo Alto and founded a software company that developed handwriting and voice recognition software. Bruno holds a B.A. in Quantitative Methods and Computer Science from the University of St. Thomas and an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Job Titles:
- Senior Director of Product Marketing for Security
As Chief Customer Officer, Dione is responsible for our customer operations and renewals, including customer success, professional services, global support, and education. Dione has over 30 years of experience in enterprise IT, ranging from start-ups to high-growth public companies. Dione brings a passion for building customer outcome driven organizations in SaaS companies and instilling the operational rigor needed for scale, as well as personally managing client executive relationships.
Prior to joining Sumo Logic, Dione was executive vice president of customer success at Apptio, where she successfully helped the company scale from a start-up and through a public offering. Dione also held executive leadership positions at Precise Software Solutions and Mercury Interactive. Dione holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Job Titles:
- Chief Security Officer
- CSO of Sumo Logic, Welcomes the Move but Cautions That Many Companies May Not Be Ready to Meet the Stringent Reporting Requirements
George Gerchow, CSO of Sumo Logic, welcomes the move but cautions that many companies may not be ready to meet the stringent reporting requirements.
As Chief Security Officer, George brings over 20 years of information technology and systems management expertise to the application of IT processes and disciplines. His background includes the security, compliance, and cloud computing disciplines. Mr. Gerchow has years of practical experience in building agile security, compliance teams and modern day security operation centers in rapid development organizations. These insights make him a highly regarded speaker, and invited panelist on topics including DevSecOps, cloud secure architecture design, virtualization, compliance, bug bounties, and operational security and compliance. George has been on the bleeding edge of public cloud security and privacy since being a co-founder of the VMware Center for Policy & Compliance.
George is also an active board member for several technology start-ups and the co-author of the Center for Internet Security - Quick Start Cloud Infrastructure Benchmark v1.0.0 and the MISTI Fundamentals in Cloud Security. He is a Faculty Member for IANS - Institute of Applied Network Security https://www.iansresearch.com and Cloud Academy https://cloudacademy.com.
As Chief Financial Officer, Jennifer McCord leads strategic finance, financial planning and analysis, accounting, and investor relations. Prior to becoming our CFO, Jennifer held various positions at Sumo including senior vice president, finance, and chief accounting officer. Jennifer brings over 20 years of finance experience at technology companies ranging from VC-backed start-ups to public companies, including high-growth pre-IPO organizations.
Jennifer joined Sumo Logic from Duo Security, where she served as vice president, corporate controller, until Duo's acquisition by Cisco Systems. Before Duo, Jennifer held various positions at Apttus, GoFundMe, Guidewire, Centrify, and Oracle. Earlier in her career, Jennifer worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Jennifer holds a B.S. in Finance from Arizona State University. Jennifer enjoys traveling, all things Disney, and watching hockey with her husband and 2 daughters.
Joe Kim - CEO, President
Joe Kim is the President & CEO of Sumo Logic, with over two decades of operating executive experience in the application, infrastructure, and security industries. He is passionate about helping customers address complex challenges through the delivery of powerful and efficient technologies and innovations.
Before joining Sumo Logic, Joe was a senior operating partner for Francisco Partners Consulting (FPC), assisting in deal thesis, assessing product-market-fit and technology readiness, and helping portfolio companies create value for customers and shareholders through advisory, board, and mentorship activities. Prior to FPC, Joe served as the chief technology and product officer at Citrix, where he was responsible for strategy, development, and delivery of the company's $3.2B portfolio of products. Joe has held other senior executive roles at SolarWinds, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and General Electric. Joe currently serves on the Board of Directors of SmartBear and Andela. Joe holds a B.S. in Computer Science, Criminology and Law studies from Marquette University. During his spare time, Joe enjoys spending time with his family.
As General Counsel, Kiki oversees our worldwide legal, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance affairs, and acts as a strategic advisor to our executive leadership and board of directors. Kiki has over 20 years advising public and private technology companies in a wide range of industries, both as in-house and outside counsel.
Prior to joining Sumo Logic, Kiki served in various roles at Informatica, most recently as senior vice president, general counsel, and chief privacy officer. At Informatica, Kiki oversaw a globally-distributed team of legal, compliance, and license compliance professionals, and was the primary attorney responsible for Informatica's $5.3 billion leveraged buyout by private equity sponsors in 2015. Prior to Informatica, Kiki was an associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, specializing in public and private offerings, public company representation, and mergers and acquisitions. Kiki holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Job Titles:
- President, Worldwide Field Operations
Lynne Doherty discusses how an accelerated to digital transformation is causing organizations to shift to a modern, digital business model. Lynne's also passionate about what the new digital business model means for the future of work and gender diversity and inclusion in cybersecurity.
As our President, Worldwide Field Operations, Lynne Doherty is responsible for our sales, pre-sales, channel, and customer success teams, driving revenue in one of the fastest growing markets in the technology space. Lynne has been leading sales organizations and driving positive business outcomes for customers for more than 20 years. Throughout her career in various leadership, sales and engineering roles, Lynne has built a reputation for leading high-performing, international organizations that capitalize on competitive opportunities and cultivate innovative initiatives to disrupt markets and drive technology adoption. A strong advocate for her clients, her team, and women in technology, Lynne is passionate about building inclusive and diverse teams, who consistently deliver a premium experience to customers and thrive on the creativity that drives world-class innovation.
Lynne joined Sumo from McAfee, where she was executive vice president, global sales and marketing, responsible for their enterprise sales, pre-sales, channel, and marketing teams. In her time at McAfee, she led them through their initial public offering, sale of the enterprise business, spin-out as a new company, and acquisition of FireEye. Prior to McAfee, Lynne spent nearly 15 years at Cisco, most recently as senior vice president of US commercial sales, Cisco's largest, single-market sales organization. In this role, she oversaw a team of more than 2,000 employees, drove $8B in revenue annually, serving 400,000+ accounts. Prior to that, Lynne was vice president of Americas security sales, responsible for over $2B across the US, Canada, and Latin America. Lynne has a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. She lives in Denver with her husband, is an avid cycler and loves to bake in her spare time.
Job Titles:
- Chief Human Resources Officer
As Chief Human Resources Officer, Sophie is responsible for our global people strategy and operations, from developing and retaining world-class talent, fostering a deep commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equality, and ensuring we deliver engaging and career-defining experiences for our people.
Sophie has almost 30 years of experience in the technology sector, starting with a decade at Accenture where she was a developer and client-facing consultant. Her passion for enabling people to thrive and excel took her to people-focused roles throughout her career, at large public companies and high-growth startups where she led people strategies that focused on employee opportunity, impact, and growth. She has a deep commitment to culture, operational maturity, and core values that enable organizations to be both stewards of employee success and business-focused performance. Prior to joining Sumo Logic, Sophie was senior vice president of people at PagerDuty, where she successfully helped the company scale from a start-up to a global, high-performing SaaS business, primed for success in the public markets. Sophie has also held global executive and management roles at Mercury Interactive, Juniper Square, Nimsoft, and Salesforce.com. Sophie holds a joint honors B.A. in Politics and History from the University of York in the United Kingdom. Sophie enjoys kayaking, hiking, cooking and hanging out with her husband, five sons, and three dogs.
As Chief Operating Officer, Stewart leads our finance, IT, security, and facilities organizations. Stewart has been leading finance and operations teams for public and private technology companies for more than 25 years.
Stewart joined Sumo Logic from Delphix, a leader in DevOps software, where he served as CFO. In addition, Stewart previously spent 8 years as CFO at ArcSight, the first generation SIEM leader. He also serves on the audit committee and board for Anomali and was previously audit committee chair for Ruckus Wireless. Earlier in his career, Stewart worked at KPMG and holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from McGill University. He has lived in the San Francisco Bay area for the past 25 years with his wife and three children and loves to travel but considers Vermont his true home.
As Chief Marketing Officer, Suku Krishnaraj is responsible for all things growth, including creating a compelling brand, messaging and positioning, market awareness, demand generation, enabling sellers and acquiring customers globally.
Suku brings over 25 years of experience in building products and marketing to B2B enterprises and developers, within data analytics, IT management, cybersecurity, and IaaS/PaaS markets. Prior to Sumo Logic, Suku headed the cloud business unit at CenturyLink as their vice president and general manager. Prior to CenturyLink, Suku was the chief marketing officer at AppFog, where he built a fast-growing and vibrant developer community, and was senior vice president, product strategy, at SolarWinds, at which he built a bottom-up high-velocity GTM and demand generation engine. Suku also led product management and product marketing functions for a variety of IT Operations management products at Mercury, Hewlett Packard, and Precise.
Suku started his career as a developer building large-scale distributed systems. Suku has a B.E. in Computer Science & Engineering from Mysore University, India, and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. He serves on the advisory board of several startups. In his spare time, Suku enjoys playing chess with his sons, golf with his friends, and traveling with family.
As Chief Product Officer, Tej leads the engineering, SaaS operations, product management, and AI teams. Tej has been building enterprise software products for more than 25 years.
Throughout his career, Tej has run engineering and product functions in industry-leading organizations such as Microsoft, VMWare, Cisco, Jive, AppDynamics, and LogicMonitor. Tej brings the right balance of business and deep technical expertise to any executive team to drive mentorship, strategy, planning and execution to benefit the overall business. Tej holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Pune, a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from San Jose State University, and an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. During his spare time, Tej plays music, codes, and spends time with family and pets.