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10 Databricks executives
These ten current and former Databricks executives, including the company's CFO, have held chief officer and senior vice president roles in finance, operations, technology, marketing, products, corporate development and regional leadership at Databricks. Readers can learn how the Databricks leadership team approaches finance, go-to-market, product and platform decisions.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adam Conway
LinkedInExperience: SVP of Products · Databricks
SVP of Products at Databricks since October 2019; his profile lists the role in the Product department at a senior level. He is also listed as Vice President of Product Management and Co-Founder at Aerohive Networks, a role dated from 2006 with no end date shown.
Dave Conte
LinkedInExperience: Chief Financial Officer · Databricks
Chief Financial Officer at Databricks since October 2019. He was previously Chief Financial Officer at Splunk (2011–2019), CFO at IronKey (2009–2011) and Chief Financial Officer at Opsware, Inc. (1999–2007), and he was a Board Member at Anaplan (2016–2022).
Hatim Shafique
LinkedInExperience: COO · Databricks
COO of Databricks since August 2022 and former Chief Customer Officer at Databricks (2017–2022). His profile places the COO role in General Management at the C-Level and the Chief Customer Officer role in Customer Service. He was also Chief Customer Officer & SVP TechOps (CIO) at AppDynamics (2010–2017).
Jonathan Parker
LinkedInExperience: SVP, Strategic Finance & Investor Relations · Databricks
SVP, Strategic Finance & Investor Relations at Databricks since February 2021, and former Vice President, Strategic Finance at Databricks (2018–2021). He was also Vice President, Strategic Finance & Investor Relations at New Relic (2014–2018) and Vice President Software Equity Research at Morgan Stanley (2009–2014).
Matei Zaharia
LinkedInExperience: CTO & Cofounder · Databricks
CTO & Cofounder of Databricks since 2013 and Associate Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley since 2023. His profile describes him as the creator of Apache Spark who has developed open-source projects such as Delta Lake and MLflow, and he has been VP, Apache Spark at The Apache Software Foundation since 2014.
Philip Kirk
LinkedInExperience: SVP Corporate Development & Ventures · Databricks
SVP Corporate Development & Ventures at Databricks since March 2026; his profile says he leads Corporate Development and Venture Investments for Databricks. He was Senior Vice President Corporate Business Development at ServiceNow (2020–2026) and Vice President Corporate Business Development at Cisco (2007–2020).
Rick Schultz
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer · Databricks
Chief Marketing Officer at Databricks since March 2017; his profile says he leads the marketing that helped fuel the company's growth. He was Senior Vice President, Marketing at Alteryx (2012–2016) and VP Product Marketing, Oracle Database, Middleware and Analytics at Oracle (2008–2012), and he has been a Board Member at Celigo since 2025.
Sahana Sarma
LinkedInExperience: SVP GTM Strategy, Growth and Operations · Databricks
SVP GTM Strategy, Growth and Operations at Databricks since February 2026, and former Global VP GTM Strategy, Growth and Operations at Databricks (2023–2026). Her profile says she partners with senior leadership to develop the global GTM engine. She was also Global Managing Director, Google Cloud Customer Strategy and Transformation at Google (2021–2023).
Samuel Bonamigo
LinkedInExperience: SVP & GM, Emea Databricks · Databricks
SVP & GM, Emea Databricks at Databricks since September 2022. He was VP, Emea South Google Cloud at Google (2020–2022), and at Salesforce he was Executive VP & GM, EMEA Growth Markets (2019–2020) and Senior Vice President & Deputy General Manager (France) (2016–2019).
Scott Starbird
LinkedInExperience: Chief Public Affairs Officer · Databricks
Former Chief Public Affairs Officer at Databricks (2024–2026). At Databricks he was also General Counsel, Public Affairs and Strategic Partnerships (2022–2024), General Counsel, Corporate & Compliance (2021–2022), Vice President, Legal (2018–2021) and Director, Head of Legal (2016–2018).
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Match the executive's function to your question, since finance, product, go-to-market and regional leaders see different parts of Databricks' decisions. Check each role's dates so you know whether the person's Databricks experience is current or from an earlier period.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Databricks decide which platform capabilities and products receive investment?
- 02What does Databricks look for when evaluating an acquisition, investment or strategic partnership?
- 03How does Databricks organize its go-to-market teams across regions and customer segments?
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