Praveen is an experienced Chief Marketing Officer bringing over 25 years of experience in various roles across strategic management consulting, sales and marketing. Most recently, Praveen was the CMO at Imply, where he built the marketing team and led a full go-to-market overhaul. Prior to that, he led product marketing at Confluent, where he was responsible for all product, technical, and solutions marketing in addition to go-to-market strategy. Prior to Confluent, Praveen led cloud marketing at Splunk, where he was a key member of the cloud leadership team and led Splunk’s transition from being viewed as an on-premises software company to a cloud company. Prior to Splunk, he was employee #13 at Sumo Logic, where he closed the first 13 customers, built out the initial messaging and positioning, and then led product marketing. Praveen holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University, where he was a President’s Scholar.