Confluent, the event streaming platform pioneer, announced Steffan Tomlinson has joined the company as chief financial officer (CFO) and Greg Schott has joined Confluent’s board of directors. Cheryl Dalrymple, the Company’s former CFO has taken on the roles of chief people officer and head of corporate development. This news comes on the heels of Confluent raising a $250 million series E round of funding that valued Confluent at a $4.5 billion valuation. With today’s news and recently raised capital, Confluent is accelerating its pursuit of enabling any organization to make event streaming the central nervous system for their business.
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“There are very few enterprise companies in the world that are creating an entirely new category of computing like Confluent is”
“Event streaming has become a foundational part of the modern software stack, but it remains too complex for many organizations to use pervasively within their businesses,” said Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO, Confluent. “That’s the premise behind Project Metamorphosis and gets to the core of why we think Greg and Steffan are great fits for Confluent. They both have extensive experience scaling high-growth startups into large, cloud-first businesses that help their customers leverage complex technologies quickly and easily. For example, Steffan has twice helped grow organizations through an IPO with valuations increasing well over ten times.”
Steffan Tomlinson joins Confluent from Google where he was CFO of Google Cloud & Technical Infrastructure. Before Google, Tomlinson was CFO of Palo Alto Networks where he successfully completed its initial public offering (IPO) and helped the company grow revenues from $200 million to a $2.3 billion run rate. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Tomlinson was CFO of Aruba Networks where he successfully completed its IPO and helped the team grow revenue from $12 million to a $450 million run rate.
“There are very few enterprise companies in the world that are creating an entirely new category of computing like Confluent is,” said Tomlinson. “I’m excited to join Confluent’s high-caliber leadership team to accelerate its path of enabling every organization to adopt event streaming so they can make faster and better decisions with the massive amount of data at their fingertips.”