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Mark T. Nelson

Software executive and technologist

United States

Overview 

Mark T. Nelson is a seasoned software executive and technologist, currently serving as the President and CEO of Tableau Software, a renowned analytics platform. His notable career highlights include leading Tableau Software to become a global leader in the industry and serving as the CTO at SAP Concur, showcasing his expertise in enterprise software and cloud computing.

Work Experience 

  • Venture Partner

    2023 - Current

  • Strategic Director

    2021 - 2023

  • Member Board of Directors

    2022

    Board Member for CircleCI - the leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform.

Distiller is an iOS application development company that builds, tests, and deploys mobile applications.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Helping every user in an organization be able to feed their own curiosity and make better decisions with data.

  • Board Member

    2024

    Spotnana’s mission is to modernize the infrastructure of the travel industry.

Travel-as-a-Service platform

Raised $116,000,000.00 from Blank Ventures, Madrona, ICONIQ Growth, Durable Capital Partners and Mubadala Capital Ventures.

  • President and CEO at Tableau Software, the world’s leading analytics platform

    2021 - 2022

    Tableau helps people see and understand data.

  • Executive Vice President of Product Development

    2018 - 2021

    Responsible for leading the global engineering team at Tableau, helping the company continue to broaden and deepen its industry leading analytics platform to support customers globally.

Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.

Raised $15,000,000.00 from Meritech Capital Partners.

  • Board Member

    2018 - 2020

    Board member and member of the compensation committee.

Talend specializes in cloud data integration and data integrity.

Raised $101,580,000.00 from TCV, Silver Lake, Sumeru Equity Partners, Bpifrance, IRIS and Silver Lake Sumeru.

  • CTO

    2013 - 2018

    As CTO, I was responsible for all technology at Concur including all aspects of product development (coding, testing, release management, deployment) as well as hosting operations for our SaaS services and Concur's internal IT functions.

SAP Concur engages in developing travel management software and solutions.

Raised $291,754,092.00 from Mayfield Fund.

  • Vice President and Architect

    1997 - 2013

    In my last position at Oracle I was responsible for cloud infrastructure include: - Oracle IaaS management (formerly Nimbula Director). I was the executive sponsor responsible for the Nimbula acquisition - Fusion Middleware Java and Caching Cloud services for Oracle Public Cloud - Fusion Applications Lifecycle including install, provisioning, patching, upgrade, virtualization and Fusion Applications SaaS infrastructure - Fusion Middleware Platform Architecture responsible for architecture and standardization of install, upgrade, patching, high availability and virtualization across the entire Fusion Middleware platform Past positions and projects include: - VP Development for Oracle Exalogic (now Oracle Cloud Machine) - Architect for Oracle Virtual Assembly Builder (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/ovab/index.html) responsible for the initial concept and design of OVAB, a tool for "single click" deployment of n-tier systems using assemblies of virtual machine templates - Architect for Oracle's FMW webtier products. 10+ years of building web servers and associated infrastructure. - Team lead and architect for Oracle Fusion Middleware's high availability infrastructure including process management and internal notification system. - Founding member of the Oracle Portland, Oregon development center. Part of a team of 13 original engineers that grew the development center to 125 engineers and a central role in the Fusion Middleware organization.

Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.

  • Software Engineer

    1995 - 1997

    Worked in the Enterprise Replication and eXtended Parallel Server product development groups.

  • Software Engineer

    1991 - 1995

    Helped develop the next generation of Enhanced 9-1-1 management system.

AT&T is a telecommunications paltform.

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