Executive appointment to help lead scaling efforts for the company's next stage of growth as Generative AI Acceleration of Industry dominates the market
AUSTIN, Texas/OSLO, Norway– July 13, 2023 - Cognite, a global leader in industrial software, today announces Jeff Coulter as Chief Financial Officer. Coulter brings 27 years of experience in finance and business leadership roles in both Fortune 100 and growth-stage SaaS companies. His mandate is to focus on driving strategic alignment, growth, and profitability across the company to create a sustainable, high-growth, profitable, rule of 40 SaaS business.
“Cognite is a category definer as a data management platform for large industrials that creates tremendous insights and value for customers, insights that have gone previously under-explored and untapped because of scaling limitations," said Coulter. "I plan to complement the existing foundation of great people, products, technology, and partnerships to help create profitable growth which allows for innovation that will bring additional value to the entire ecosystem."
"Cognite is at the brink of scaling our proposition, processes, and people towards profitable growth," said Girish Rishi, CEO, Cognite. "Jeff joins Cognite at an opportune time as Generative AI promises to deliver greater operational efficiencies and sustainability to our customers driven by data operations. Jeff complements and bolsters Cognite's path forward of operating across multiple geographies, industrial verticals directly and increasingly with our partners. Jeff's recruit is a natural evolution of establishing a stronger regime at Cognite, meaningful to all our stakeholders in the time ahead."
Jeff most recently served as Senior Vice President of Finance at Instructure where he led financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and has held leadership positions at Blue Yonder, Intel, and Procter & Gamble. He holds an MBA in Finance and a BS in Org Psychology, both from Brigham Young University.
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