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Christian is a seasoned executive with over 26 years of experience in various functions including Global IT operations management, technology planning, solution implementation and strategic consulting. Prior to joining Splunk Christian has spent 8 years in various leadership roles at HPE where he evolved the solutions and go to market strategies for the Financial Services vertical. Christian has also held leadership roles at Amdocs, IBM and Idhasoft. Christian has helped some of the largest global Financial Services companies to evaluate and adopt technology solutions and has extensive experience in Retail Banking, Capital Markets, Investment Banking and Trading.

Michael comes to Splunk with over 25 years of experience building large enterprise security and operations programs. Most recently, he was a Chief Cyber Security Strategist for HPE/Micro Focus. There he was a key in driving the strategic direction of the Security, Risk, and Governance Portfolio helping customers implement security programs that truly lowered an organization's risk and improved their security posture.

Prior to joining HPE, as the Senior Vice President of Core Operations at MasterCard, Michael was responsible for the security, safety, and reliability of one of the largest payment networks on the planet. Responsible for more than $5 trillion dollars of transactions per year, Michael was responsible for anything that touched the payment network. Prior to MasterCard, he was CISO at Express Scripts as well as Sister of Mercy Health System.

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