Databricks executive team & leadership
Databricks's executive team includes 19 tracked leaders as of August 2026, led by Ali Ghodsi (Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer). The org chart, per-leader profiles and full leadership list are below.
Databricks executive team overview
Databricks has 19 tracked executives leading key functions including company strategy and operations, financial strategy, technology strategy and engineering, marketing (as of August 2026). Databricks Inc. is a private American data and artificial intelligence company headquartered at 160 Spear Street in San Francisco, California, with more than 17,300 employees and offices in nineteen countries across five continents. It was incorporated in 2013 by seven researchers from the AMPLab at the University of California, Berkeley who had built Apache Spark: Ali Ghodsi, Ion Stoica, Matei Zaharia, Patrick Wendell, Reynold Xin, Andy Konwinski and Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji. The company sells a unified Data Intelligence Platform that spans data engineering, data warehousing, streaming, governance, machine learning and generative AI, marketed through products including Agent Bricks, Lakeflow, Lakehouse, Lakebase and Unity Catalog. More than 20,000 organizations use it, among them adidas, AT&T, Bayer, Block, Mastercard, Rivian and Unilever, and the company states that over 60 percent of the Fortune 500 are customers. On August 13, 2026 Databricks announced that it had crossed a 7 billion dollar revenue run-rate with more than 80 percent year over year growth, alongside a 5 billion dollar strategic funding round led by Coatue at a 190 billion dollar valuation. Ali Ghodsi, one of the co-founders, has been chief executive officer since 2016, and fellow co-founder Ion Stoica serves as executive chair.
Databricks executive team org chart
Ali GhodsiCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer- DCDavid ConteChief Financial Officer
- MZ
Matei ZahariaCo-founder and Chief Technology Officer - RSRick SchultzChief Marketing Officer
- HSHatim ShafiqueChief Operating Officer
- IS
Ion StoicaCo-founder and Executive Chair - AKAndy KofoidPresident, Global Field Operations
- RXReynold XinChief Architect
- NZNaveen ZutshiChief Information Officer
- AK
Andy KonwinskiCo-founder - ATArsalan Tavakoli-ShirajiCo-founder and SVP of Field Engineering
- PWPatrick WendellCo-founder and VP of Engineering
- RGRon GabriskoChief Revenue Officer
- ARAmy ReichanadterChief People Officer
- FSFermín SernaChief Security Officer
- TPTrâm PhiSVP and General Counsel
- VMVinod MarurSVP of Engineering
- DMDavid MeyerSVP of Products
- ACAdam ConwaySVP of Products
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Employees by management level
| Name | Profiles | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Executive officers and C-level | 19 | 0.1% |
| President, EVP and SVP | 150 | 0.9% |
| VP | 520 | 3.0% |
| Director | 1,800 | 10% |
| Manager | 3,300 | 19% |
| Individual contributor | 11,517 | 67% |
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Leadership team
| Leader | Location | Profile | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AGAli GhodsiCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| DCDavid ConteChief Financial Officer | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| MZMatei ZahariaCo-founder and Chief Technology Officer | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| RSRick SchultzChief Marketing Officer | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| HSHatim ShafiqueChief Operating Officer | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| ISIon StoicaCo-founder and Executive Chair | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| AKAndy KofoidPresident, Global Field Operations | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| RXReynold XinChief Architect | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| NZNaveen ZutshiChief Information Officer | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| AKAndy KonwinskiCo-founder | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| ATArsalan Tavakoli-ShirajiCo-founder and SVP of Field Engineering | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| PWPatrick WendellCo-founder and VP of Engineering | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| RGRon GabriskoChief Revenue Officer | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| ARAmy ReichanadterChief People Officer | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| FSFermín SernaChief Security Officer | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| TPTrâm PhiSVP and General Counsel | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| VMVinod MarurSVP of Engineering | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| DMDavid MeyerSVP of Products | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → | |
| ACAdam ConwaySVP of Products | ••••@databricks.com | Profile → |
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Databricks executive team roles
Ali Ghodsi · full profile →
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Ali Ghodsi is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Databricks. He is an Iranian-Swedish-American computer scientist and entrepreneur specialising in distributed systems, big data and data management, and he is also an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He co-authored several influential systems papers, including the work behind Apache Mesos and Apache Spark SQL, and he was one of the seven Berkeley AMPLab researchers who incorporated Databricks in 2013 around Apache Spark. He took over as chief executive officer in 2016 and has led the company through its expansion from an Apache Spark service into a full data and AI platform used by more than 20,000 organisations.
David Conte · full profile →
Chief Financial Officer
David Conte, who goes by Dave, has been the chief financial officer of Databricks since October 2019 and leads the company's financial and operational functions. He spent the previous eight years as chief financial officer of Splunk, where he took the company public and helped grow it from roughly 100 million dollars in annual revenue to more than 2 billion dollars. Before Splunk he was chief financial officer of Opsware, the IT automation software company acquired by Hewlett-Packard for 1.65 billion dollars. His track record of taking enterprise software companies through an initial public offering is directly relevant at Databricks, which has said it intends to list publicly at some point.
Matei Zaharia · full profile →
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer
Matei Zaharia is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of Databricks. He is a Romanian-Canadian computer scientist and educator, and he is the creator of Apache Spark, the distributed processing engine he started as a doctoral project at the AMPLab of the University of California, Berkeley and that was donated to the Apache Software Foundation in 2013. That project is the technical origin of Databricks, which he founded the same year with six other Berkeley researchers. He also started the MLflow machine learning lifecycle project, and he combines his role at the company with academic work in computer science.
Rick Schultz · full profile →
Chief Marketing Officer
Rick Schultz is the chief marketing officer of Databricks and has been with the company since March 2017. He runs worldwide marketing, covering product marketing, demand generation, branding and creative, global communications, events, field marketing and community evangelism. Before Databricks he was senior vice president of marketing at Alteryx, where he helped the company grow from its Series A stage to the eve of its initial public offering and from about 100 customers to more than 2,200. Earlier he ran technology product marketing at Oracle from 2008 to 2012, covering a 6 billion dollar portfolio of database, analytics, security and management products. He holds a bachelor of science in finance from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Hatim Shafique · full profile →
Chief Operating Officer
Hatim Shafique is the chief operating officer of Databricks. He arrived with more than fourteen years of experience building enterprise software products, most recently as chief operating officer and senior vice president of technical operations at AppDynamics, where he ran the customer facing and technology functions. He joined AppDynamics as one of its first ten employees and helped take it from a handful of customers to a market leader valued at 3.7 billion dollars when Cisco acquired it. Before that he held development and quality engineering leadership roles at CA Wily and other companies working on Java and J2EE products. He holds a master's degree in computer science from the University of Southern California.
Ion Stoica · full profile →
Co-founder and Executive Chair
Ion Stoica is a co-founder of Databricks and serves as its executive chair. He is a Romanian-American computer scientist specialising in distributed systems, cloud computing and computer networking, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and a co-director of the AMPLab where Apache Spark was built. Beyond Databricks he co-founded Conviva with other researchers, and Anyscale with the original developers of the Ray distributed computing framework. He was chief executive officer of Databricks before Ali Ghodsi took the role in 2016.
Andy Kofoid · full profile →
President, Global Field Operations
Andy Kofoid is president of global field operations at Databricks, a role he started on September 7, 2021, and he carries more than three decades of experience building and scaling software and cloud businesses. He spent eight years at Salesforce, most recently as president of North America running a business unit of more than 12 billion dollars with over 8,000 employees, and before that as executive vice president and chief operating officer for the B2C and global Marketing Cloud businesses. Prior to Salesforce he was executive vice president and chief operating officer at ExactTarget, leading global field operations through its 2012 listing on the New York Stock Exchange and its 2.6 billion dollar acquisition by Salesforce in 2013. Earlier he was vice president for EMEA at Dassault Systemes, based in London and Paris.
Reynold Xin · full profile →
Chief Architect
Reynold Xin is a co-founder and the chief architect of Databricks. He is a computer scientist and engineer working on big data, distributed systems and cloud computing, and he is best known for his contributions to Apache Spark. He designed and led development of the GraphX, Project Tungsten and Structured Streaming components, co-designed the DataFrames API, and served as release manager for the Spark 2.0 release. According to the 2021 AI 2000 records he was the most cited scholar in the field of databases.
Naveen Zutshi · full profile →
Chief Information Officer
Naveen Zutshi joined Databricks as chief information officer on January 5, 2022. He came from Palo Alto Networks, where he had been chief information officer for six years and oversaw IT strategy and operations as the company scaled and moved into new security categories. Before that he was senior vice president of technology at Gap Inc., responsible for global infrastructure, operations and security, where he championed the move to cloud infrastructure and supported the growth of the e-commerce business. At Databricks he leads the internal technology organisation supporting a workforce that has since passed 17,000 people.
Andy Konwinski · full profile →
Co-founder
Andy Konwinski is a co-founder of Databricks and an American computer scientist and businessman. He was one of the seven Berkeley AMPLab researchers who incorporated the company in 2013, and he made early contributions to Apache Spark. Outside Databricks he co-founded Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, as well as the early-stage venture capital firm Laude Ventures and the Laude Institute, a nonprofit for computer science researchers. His work sits at the boundary between systems research and real-world deployment of software infrastructure and artificial intelligence.
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji · full profile →
Co-founder and SVP of Field Engineering
Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji is a co-founder of Databricks and leads its field engineering organization. Before Databricks, he was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company, where he advised enterprises, vendors and the public sector on IT, cloud computing and corporate strategy. He holds a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley, in networking and distributed systems, and a BEng from the University of Virginia.
Patrick Wendell · full profile →
Co-founder and VP of Engineering
Patrick Wendell is a co-founder of Databricks and leads engineering for the company's AI efforts, including products such as Genie and Unity Gateway and partnerships with AI model providers. He earned an MS in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where his research focused on optimizing large-scale analytics systems, and a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University.
Ron Gabrisko · full profile →
Chief Revenue Officer
Ron Gabrisko leads the worldwide sales organization of Databricks, which he joined in 2016. He previously held senior sales positions at Cloudera and IBM. In December 2025 he joined the board of directors of XBOW.
Amy Reichanadter · full profile →
Chief People Officer
Amy Reichanadter has led people and culture at Databricks since 2019. Before Databricks, she was Chief People Officer at Adaptive Insights, a Workday company, for five years. Before that she was SVP of Human Resources at E2open for eight years. She holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from Palo Alto University.
Fermín Serna · full profile →
Chief Security Officer
Fermín Serna has led security at Databricks since August 2021, covering network, platform and user security as well as governance and compliance. He was previously CISO at Citrix, CSO at Semmle (acquired by GitHub), and Head of Product Security at Google for almost eight years. Earlier he worked in Microsoft's MSRC Engineering team and co-founded NGSEC and S21SEC in Spain.
Trâm Phi · full profile →
SVP and General Counsel
Trâm Phi has led the legal function at Databricks since May 2022. She was previously SVP, General Counsel and Secretary at DocuSign, and before that Chief Legal Officer at Imperva. Earlier she held senior legal roles at ArcSight, HP Software Security and InVision Technologies.
Vinod Marur · full profile →
SVP of Engineering
Vinod Marur joined Databricks in February 2021 to lead engineering. He was previously SVP Engineering at Rubrik. Before that he spent nearly 15 years in engineering leadership at Google, across Search, Ads and Payments, and created and led the Actions on Google developer platform.
David Meyer · full profile →
SVP of Products
David Meyer drives product strategy and execution at Databricks. He previously ran Engineering and Product Management at OneLogin. Before that he co-founded UniversityNow, an accredited open university system, where he ran Product and Engineering, and he managed a business intelligence product portfolio at SAP, where he also co-led cloud strategy.
Adam Conway · full profile →
SVP of Products
Adam Conway leads product work at Databricks. Before joining Databricks he co-founded Aerohive Networks, where he ran the Product Management organization through the company's IPO. He also founded Donkeycar, an open-source self-driving RC car project.