Michael Baum

Michael is a technology industry entrepreneur, innovator and investor actively working with start-up companies. He has gained a reputation for his knowledge of how to build great companies, create and win markets and assemble A-player teams. Michael is currently an advisor and board participant at Loggly, Mu Dynamics, NewTree, Rezopia, TrackSimple and Veloxum.

Michael was the founding CEO of Splunk, the infrastructure software company that invented IT Search. Splunk enables enterprises to index, search and report across all of their machine data to troubleshoot issues, find root causes, investigate security incidents and meet compliance reporting requirements. Michael’s vision and leadership grew Splunk from an idea to a$50M, pre-IPO company, and the undisputed leader in managing all aspects of IT data. Prior to Splunk, he served as VP e-Commerce Services at Yahoo!, VP e-Commerce at InfoSeek/Disney and was co-founder of Collation (acquired by IBM), dotBank (acquired by Yahoo!) and Reality (acquired by Reuters).

Michael holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Computer Science from Drexel University.