Data infrastructure
10 CFOs in Data Infrastructure
These ten finance executives currently serve as chief financial officers of data infrastructure companies, including database, data platform and data integration software makers. A reader can learn how these CFOs approach usage-based pricing, cloud hosting costs, open source business models and funding growth.
Professionals to explore
01—10Corey Jewell
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Semarchy
Chief Financial Officer at Semarchy since January 2024; the profile describes Semarchy as a data integration platform that helps businesses unify and manage their data efficiently, securely and at scale. Former Chief Financial Officer at ShootProof (2023–2024) and Cloud Inventory® (2021–2023), and Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer at Hulsing Enterprises (2019–2021).
Dave Conte
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Databricks
Chief Financial Officer at Databricks since October 2019; the profile describes Databricks as offering a unified platform for data, analytics and AI. Former Chief Financial Officer at Splunk (2011–2019), CFO at IronKey (2009–2011) and Chief Financial Officer at Opsware, Inc. (1999–2007), and Board Member at Anaplan (2016–2022).
Dilip Upmanyu
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Cloudera
Chief Financial Officer at Cloudera since September 2023; the profile describes Cloudera as a hybrid data and AI platform company that brings AI to data in clouds, in data centers and at the edge. Former EVP and CFO at ASG Technologies (2015–2021), VP Finance at Attachmate (2006–2015) and Director FP&A at NetIQ (2002–2006).
Elmer Lai
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · SingleStore
Chief Financial Officer at SingleStore since December 2025; the profile describes SingleStore as a global database company with a unified data platform that supports real-time transactions, analytics and search. Former Chief Financial Officer at Acoustic (2020–2025), ClickSoftware (2018–2020) and Autotask Corporation (2015–2018), and Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer at HubSpot (2012–2015).
Jimmy Sexton
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · ClickHouse
Chief Financial Officer at ClickHouse since October 2025; the profile describes ClickHouse as a fast open-source column-oriented database management system. Former Vice President, Finance at Snowflake (2019–2025), Finance at ServiceNow (2012–2019) and Sales Finance at EMC Data Domain (2011–2012).
Kenneth Chen
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Aiven
Chief Financial Officer at Aiven since March 2026, after serving there as COO CFO (2024–2026) and Chief Financial Officer (2023–2024); the profile describes Aiven as open source data infrastructure with an AI-ready open source data platform and over $100M ARR. Former VP, Finance Strategy Operations & Risk (2021–2023) and Vice President & Chief Audit Executive (2014–2021) at Spotify.
Matthew Frey
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Qumulo
Chief Financial Officer at Qumulo, a role listed from August 2015 with no end date; the profile describes Qumulo as a file data platform for multi-cloud environments that provides control and real-time visibility for file data at massive scale. Former President & CEO at Optimum Energy (2010–2015) and Board Member and Audit Committee Chair at Immersion Corporation (2019–2021).
Morgan Dioli
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Upstash
Chief Financial Officer at Upstash since February 2026; the profile describes Upstash as a serverless data platform providing low latency and high scalability for real-time applications, with managed services for Redis, Vector and QStash. Former Partner, Co-Founder at Azzurri Finance (2007–2026) and Principal and Partner at Ravix Group (2019–2025).
Sam Wolff
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Acceldata
Chief Financial Officer at Acceldata since May 2025; the profile describes Acceldata as an agentic data management platform for data observability, governance, optimization and AI-driven operations. Former Chief Financial Officer at Domestika (2021–2023), Singular (2018–2021), Vera Security (2017–2018) and Birst (2014–2017).
Shawn Johnson
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Kinetica
Chief Financial Officer at Kinetica since March 2021; the profile describes Kinetica as a company that provides real-time data and the power of GPUs for AI and analytics. Former Senior Vice President of Finance at Seal Software, a DocuSign Company (2019–2020), Partner - Technical Accounting at Acilon Consulting (2015–2019) and Interim Chief Financial Officer at Zephyr Health (2016–2018).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's company to yours, since a large data and AI platform, an open source database company and a smaller data management vendor face different pricing, margin and fundraising questions. Also consider how long each person has held the CFO seat, because a recent arrival and a long-tenured CFO can speak to different stages of growth.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do you forecast revenue and margins when customers pay based on data usage or compute consumption?
- 02How do you manage cloud hosting costs as a share of revenue while the business scales?
- 03How does an open source or freemium model change the way you plan sales and finance?
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