Steve Sommer
Steve Sommer serves as the Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Marketing at Splunk. Prior to Splunk, Steve served as Vice P
Steve Sommer serves as the Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Marketing at Splunk. Prior to Splunk, Steve served as Vice President, Marketing at WideOrbit Inc., a software company, from 2007 to 2008. From 2006 to 2007, he served as Vice President Global Marketing at SuccessFactors, Inc., a business execution software company. Previously, he held a variety of executive positions in fast-growing enterprise software companies including SVP Marketing at ArcSight, SVP Marketing & Business Development at Portal Software and VP Worldwide Marketing at Informix. Earlier in his career he worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. Steve holds a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.