Product-Focused Leader to Help Accelerate Precisely’s Growth and Advance Agentic AI Offerings
Precisely (the “Company”), a global data integrity provider backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake”), TA Associates, Insight Partners, and Partners Group, among other institutional investors, announced the appointment of Walid Abu-Hadba as Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), effective immediately. Mr. Abu-Hadba succeeds Josh Rogers, who will continue to serve in an advisory capacity as Vice Chairman to ensure a seamless leadership transition.
Mr. Abu-Hadba joins from Sage, where he served as Chief Product Officer (“CPO”), following a distinguished 30-year career scaling global software businesses through Al-enabled product innovation, technology-driven transformation, and deep engineering expertise. Prior to Sage, Mr. Abu-Hadba served as SVP of Developer Tools at Oracle, CPO of ANSYS, and spent over 20 years at Microsoft, where he was Corporate Vice President responsible for the Developer and Platform Evangelism group.
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As Precisely CEO, Mr. Abu-Hadba is positioned to leverage his deep product and engineering knowledge to help accelerate data integrity product innovation, strengthen execution, and expand the company’s capabilities in Agentic AI.
“We believe Walid’s impressive track record of architecting and delivering innovative, AI-based software solutions at scale makes him the ideal choice to help guide Precisely through its next phase of accelerated growth,” said Prashant Mehrotra, Partner & Managing Director at Clearlake. “We see that AI is fundamentally changing how organizations operate and create value. Underpinning the success of enterprise AI strategies is the utilization of trusted, well-governed data—a key value proposition of Precisely’s solutions. With his disciplined approach and engineering rigor, we believe Walid will further the Company’s critical and differentiated market position in the data value chain and address the challenges that undermine our customers’ AI effectiveness.”
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“I am honored to join Precisely at this pivotal moment in the Company’s journey,” said Walid Abu-Hadba, CEO of Precisely. “I have long admired Precisely’s reputation as the trusted partner for organizations that depend on accurate, reliable data. As enterprise AI adoption accelerates, we believe success or failure increasingly hinges on data integrity, positioning Precisely at the nexus of the AI transformation underway at large enterprises. I look forward to working closely with our talented team as we strive to build on this strong foundation and deliver exceptional results for our customers.”
“Leading Precisely through its transformation over the past decade has been the privilege of my career, and I am confident that Walid is exactly the right leader for what comes next,” said Josh Rogers, Vice Chairman, Precisely. “As Vice Chairman, I look forward to partnering with Walid and the board as we enter this exciting next phase, and I want to extend my sincere gratitude to every member of the Precisely team for making this journey possible.”