Godfrey Sullivan, Former Hyperion CEO, Joins Splunk as CEO to Lead the Company's Accelerating Growth

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Splunk, the IT Search company, today announced that Godfrey Sullivan, former President and CEO of Hyperion Solutions -- has agreed to join Splunk as President and CEO and will join the board of directors. Sullivan joined Hyperion Solutions in 2001 as president and COO and served as president and CEO from 2004 until its acquisition by Oracle in 2007.

"It's an incredible time to add Godfrey to our team. Managing our growth is the biggest challenge we face and he has the experience to help us continue to scale quickly," said Michael Baum, co-founder of Splunk. Michael co-founded Splunk in 2004 and has been CEO since, growing the company to 150 employees and more than 750 customers worldwide. He will assume the role of Chief Corporate and Business Development Officer and will continue to serve on Splunk's board of directors.

"Splunk has created a new software category called IT Search -- effectively Google for the data center -- with tremendous potential. I am truly excited to join Splunk and the talented team that created this disruptive technology and established Splunk as the market leader in IT Search," said Godfrey Sullivan.

"Godfrey Sullivan has a remarkable record of building value for customers that places him in elite company in the industry," added Nick Sturiale, board member of Splunk, Affiliated Partner of Sevin Rosen Funds and Managing Director at The Carlyle Group. "It is a great testament to the founders and employees of Splunk that we are able to attract somebody of Godfrey's stature."

During Sullivan's tenure at Hyperion, the company defined and led the enterprise performance management software category, doubled revenue to nearly $1 billion, was acquired for over $3 billion, and was recognized as one of the Fortune Top 100 places to work. Prior to Hyperion, Sullivan was CEO of Promptu Corp. and spent eight years at Autodesk in senior management positions. He recently joined the board of directors of Informatica, and is also on the board of Citrix Systems.

Splunk has been rapidly adopted by over 750 enterprises, service providers and government agencies around the world to improve IT operations, enhance security, achieve compliance, and provide valuable business intelligence. Sullivan's extensive experience and deep understanding of the BI market is incredibly valuable as Splunk customers continue to mine logs and IT data for new forms of insight into customer, user and system activities.

About Splunk

Splunk is a Silicon Valley company innovating large-scale, high-speed indexing and search technology for IT infrastructures. The company's freely downloadable software indexes and makes it possible to search and navigate data from any application, server or network device in real time. Logs, configurations, messages, traps and alerts, scripts and metrics. If a machine can generate it -- Splunk can index it. It's easy to download, install and use, and is very powerful. More than 750 enterprises, government organizations, and service providers and more than 250,000 users are achieving higher availability, investigating security incidents in record time, and meeting compliance requirements at lower costs with Splunk. Over 50 OEM, System Integrator, Value Added Reseller and Managed Service Provider partners have fueled their offerings with IT Search. Partners such as BT, Cisco and Radware are driving new business with innovative products powered by Splunk. Download your own free copy today at http://www.splunk.com.