Mark is a passionate technologist. Innovative technology (in all shapes and colors) has always been the backbone of Mark’s career, from mission-critical delivery to innovation acceleration, global portfolio optimization to fundraising and acquisition selection to business building.

At Splunk, he helps leadership teams and international policymakers understand the seismic impact that data-driven approaches can create and get the right mix of enabling technology, expertise, empowering guidance and practical governance to bring about positive change.

“Strategy is useless without a general decision-making framework, a framework is useless without resilient processes that adapt to changing priorities - leveraging data is the only way to close the loop.