Databricks has added former Splunk executive Kevin Davis as vice president of public sector to meet the demand for the company’s Unified Analytics Platform.
Davis, who has over 25 years’ sales and management experience across public sector, will be tasked with expanding strategic alliances and scaling Databricks’ customer base within the public sector, the company said.
“Kevin will play a critical role in driving further growth with government agencies – a market that is ripe for transformation,” said Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks. “Big data analytics is quickly impacting the sector – it is key to improving public services and cybersecurity measures. Kevin’s vast experience, combined with our Unified Analytics Platform, will further enable firms within the public sector to overcome innate challenges that exist with data silos and compliance mandates, and simplify the data science process along the way.”
At Splunk, Davis helped create the company’s first public sector team, which he led for four years, driving on average 40 percent year-over-year growth. Before Splunk, he spent nine years at Oracle as area vice president running the Defense Department Technology Sales business unit.
Davis’ focus will be on making government agencies successful with artificial intelligence by combining data and machine learning silos in one unified platform, Databricks said.
“Databricks is a true leader in the data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning spaces,” Davis said. “This rapidly growing team has huge potential, and I’m thrilled to be joining at both such an exciting stage in the company’s evolution as well as a pivotal period for the industry. The strides made by Databricks within the public sector and the rate at which federal agencies are moving to the cloud are monumental. The mission of the government has always been to ensure security for the people, and I look forward to helping them achieve that mission with Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform.”