Sumo Logic Names Tej Redkar Chief Product Officer and Sophie Kitson Chief Human Resources Officer
May 02 2022 - 9:00AM
Sumo Logic, (NASDAQ: SUMO), the SaaS analytics platform to enable
reliable and secure cloud-native applications, today announced the
appointment of Tej Redkar to the newly formed position of Chief
Product Officer and Sophie Kitson as Chief Human Resources Officer,
effective immediately. Tej and Sophie bring deep experience
globally scaling product development and human resource functions
respectively and will report directly to Sumo Logic CEO Ramin Sayar
as members of the company’s senior executive team.
"As every company increasingly embraces a
digital-first strategy, the market opportunity for Sumo Logic only
grows," said Ramin Sayar, president and CEO, Sumo Logic. "I’m
excited to welcome both Tej and Sophie to the team as they help
further build out the strong executive team and experience that
will lead the company to longer term, global scale and profitable
growth."
Tej Redkar Chief Product
Officer
Tej has led various engineering, product
management, UX and data science teams at many industry leading
companies including Microsoft, Cisco/AppDynamics, IBM and SAP. He
most recently was the Chief Product Officer at LogicMonitor where
he led a product development team of several hundred engineers and
product managers. He has built products that have grown to be
industry leaders in their respective category. Tej brings great
domain knowledge and is deeply versed in observability, analytics
cloud computing, SaaS, DevOps and autonomous infrastructure. He
brings a strong balance of business and deep technical expertise
which will be beneficial to help Sumo Logic further drive our
strategy and execution.
"Having been a customer of Sumo Logic for several
years, I’m deeply aware of the critical role it plays in helping to
deliver digital experiences that are reliable and secure," said Tej
Redkar. "From my perspective, Sumo Logic is the only pure play SaaS
analytics company that is credibly addressing the end-to-end
challenges of modern applications and cyber security. I’m thrilled
to join this seasoned executive team as well as the innovative
product and engineering organization who have built an incredible
multi product platform. I look forward to joining the journey as we
further achieve the company’s vision for our uniquely positioned
market leading platform."
Sophie Kitson Chief Human Resources
Officer
Sophie is a proven and strategic HR executive with
diverse experience ranging from small start-up to large global
technology and services companies. She brings a strong track record
of building talent centric organizations and the operational
systems that allow them to scale at innovative companies such as
Mercury Interactive, Salesforce, Nimsoft and PagerDuty. In
addition, Sophie spent a decade at Accenture, first as a developer
and then as a client-facing consultant, which ignited her passion
for working with innovators who are disrupting and shaping new
markets.
"I’ve watched Sumo Logic grow from an early
start-up to becoming a Fortune Magazine Best Place to Work in 2019,
through IPO. Now they are positioned to have a dramatic impact on a
world where digital transformation and the analytics that empowers
it - is a must have for every business. Sumo Logic is positioned to
grow exponentially, and I am excited to be part of this journey,"
said Sophie Kitson. "I have deep conviction that the next stage for
Sumo Logic will be as game-changing as the last, and the company is
committed to building a high performing, purpose-driven
organization that empowers our customers for years to come. This is
an exciting time to be at Sumo Logic! I'm thrilled to join the team
and help them scale to further attract, retain and develop the best
talent and create career defining experiences for our people."
Additional Resources
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Platform™
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About Sumo LogicSumo Logic, Inc.
(NASDAQ: SUMO) empowers the people who power modern, digital
business. Through its SaaS analytics platform, Sumo Logic enables
customers to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications.
The Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence Platform™ helps
practitioners and developers ensure application reliability, secure
and protect against modern security threats, and gain insights into
their cloud infrastructures. Customers around the world rely on
Sumo Logic to get powerful real-time analytics and insights across
observability and security solutions for their cloud-native
applications. For more information, visit www.sumologic.com.
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Media ContactCarmen HarrisSumo
Logiccharris@sumologic.com(650) 414-1584
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