New Marketing Leader for Acceldata

Data observability specialist Acceldata has appointed former Splunk and Sumo Logic exec Girish Bhat as SVP of Marketing, leading the global marketing team.

Acceldata was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. Its Data Observability Cloud helps enterprises make their data systems 'stable, agile, and cost efficient', promising 'comprehensive visibility and insight to improve the performance, quality, reliability, and cost of data'.

Bhat was head of Marketing and Product at Bay Area software firm Wave Systems Corp for four years from January 2011 before joining Splunk as Head of Product and Solutions Marketing. He left in 2019 to join MobileIron as VP Marketing, and for the last nearly two years has been VP Marketing at digital experience and security firm Sumo Logic. He holds an MBA from the University of Ottawa and a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology.

In his new role Bhat is responsible for all aspects of growth, corporate communications, branding, digital, product and solutions marketing.

CEO and co-founder Rohit Choudhary says of the hire: 'Acceldata is in the middle of an exciting period growth and momentum. We've added some incredible players to our leadership team, and Girish is the most recent example. His success at several large technology and data-based companies shows a determination for results and growth across all levels. I'm excited to work with him as Acceldata's SVP of marketing and a key member of our leadership team'.

Web site: www.acceldata.io .