Doug S. Merritt

Doug Merritt is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Splunk.
Career
In 1987, Merritt earned his B.S. of Computer Science from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. In 1996, Merritt founded a workforce management cloud-based application company called Icarian. After the dotcom crash, he sold the company to Workstream, based in Toronto, for $9.8 million. In 2011, he was named CEO of Baynote Inc., a behavioral personalization and marketing tech company. He was with Cisco for two years, before joining Splunk in 2014.
In 2019, Merritt was named one of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of the Year Northern California.
In 2020, Merritt was one of 50 business and community leaders named to the Silicon Valley Recovery Roundtable (initially called the Economic Recovery and Resilience Council). The group will advise local governments on policy decisions, and help formulate advocacy priorities to recover from the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic.<ref name=":7" />

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