Samsara Welcomes Jeffrey Hausman as Chief Product Officer and Appoints Kiren Sekar as Chief Strategy Officer
Samsara Inc. (“Samsara”), the pioneer of the Connected Operations Cloud, today announced the hiring of Jeffrey Hausman as Chief Product Officer, effective July 25, 2022. Hausman joins Samsara from ServiceNow where he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Operations Management Portfolio – ITOM, ITAM, Security, Risk, and ESG. He brings a proven track record of over 25 years leading product development as a senior executive across a wide range of products at McAfee, Symantec, Hewlett-Packard, and Veritas. Hausman will join Samsara’s executive management team and report directly to Sanjit Biswas, Samsara’s co-founder and CEO.
“The world of physical operations is in the early innings of its digital transformation”
Samsara’s current Chief Product Officer Kiren Sekar will become the company’s first Chief Strategy Officer, focusing on long-term strategy and leading new and emerging product development to expand the Connected Operations Cloud across physical operations. Sekar will continue reporting directly to Biswas.
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“Jeffrey’s experience as a product leader is extensive, encompassing cloud operations, data analytics, management, security, and infrastructure technologies,” said Biswas. “His track record scaling large transformative software companies will be a tremendous asset to Samsara as we expand our Connected Operations Cloud. Jeffrey shares Samsara’s passion for helping customers unlock the power of physical operations data to increase operational efficiency, worker safety, and business resiliency. We’re excited to welcome Jeffrey to the team.”
Biswas added, “I’m also excited to announce Kiren’s new role as Chief Strategy Officer, where he will lead incubation of net-new products, and bring them to market. These additions will be instrumental as we continue to grow, scale, and add products on the Samsara platform.”
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“What drew me to Samsara is the real-world impact of the Connected Operations Cloud and the extensibility of the platform,” said Hausman. “Samsara customers keep the world running, yet today those businesses face more challenges than ever. Rising fuel costs, inflationary pressures, driver shortages, and supply chain crunches are just a few. Samsara has built a leading platform of applications to help customers mitigate these challenges, and the opportunity for compounding product innovation at scale on the platform is tremendous. I can’t wait to get started and help build the future of Connected Operations.”
“The world of physical operations is in the early innings of its digital transformation,” said Sekar. “Samsara is in a unique position to accelerate this transformation: in just seven years, Samsara has become a system of record for customers’ physical operations, across industries that make up 40% of global GDP. And our Connected Operations Cloud is capturing data at a massive scale, processing over four trillion data points each year. This data, combined with feedback from our customers, creates boundless potential to innovate, expand our platform, and grow our impact. I’m thrilled to have Jeffrey on the team to take our market-leading products to the next level. And I’m excited to partner with our customers to build new products on our platform that make operations safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.”
