SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Causata, the software company that delivers rapid measurable benefits from real-time customer intelligence, today announced the appointment of Paul Wahl as its new CEO. In his career, Wahl has held critical leadership and board roles at influential global enterprise software companies including Siebel Systems, SAP and QlikTech. He will work with Causata’s board of directors and its executive team to rapidly scale the company to meet the increasing demand for Causata’s software.
“Causata has an incredible opportunity to help its customers harness the power of all of their data to make decisions that drive their business forward,” said Wahl. “I am excited to join Paul Phillips and the rest of the Causata team to expand the company’s rapid pace of growth and innovation.”
Prior to Causata, Wahl held senior executive roles at a number of major enterprise software businesses. While President and COO of Siebel Systems Inc., he grew the company’s revenues from $360 million to more than $2 billion. Earlier, Wahl served as CEO of SAP America, Inc. during an eight-year period of explosive growth where he grew the company’s revenues by 500 percent to $2.5 billion. More recently he has been an active board member of QlikTech Inc., which went public in 2010 on NASDAQ and has a market capitalization of over $2 billion.
“The addition of an industry heavyweight like Paul Wahl is a watershed moment in our company’s evolution,” said Paul Phillips, Founder and COO of Causata. “His industry experience, expertise and track record at developing category defining software companies make him an ideal CEO for us.”
Bruce Golden, partner at Accel Partners and chairman of QlikTech, said, “Paul and I have worked closely together for over seven years on QlikTech’s board and he has been a crucial contributor in helping it grow from less than $10 million to more than $300 million in revenue, and become one of the most successful IPOs in the United States in 2010. Paul is formidable as a leader because he has a unique combination of operational experience at scaling companies, deep technical and product insight, and an intense focus on creating value for customers. Paul and I wanted to collaborate in a young company with the potential to create an important new category of software, and we believe Causata can be it.”
About Causata
Causata delivers a new essential layer of software that empowers companies to make better decisions while they engage with customers by harnessing digital behavioral data in a highly scalable way. Causata injects real-time customer intelligence into existing systems, making data a more powerful asset. Causata’s software can be deployed extremely rapidly and the benefits are directly measurable. For more information, visit the company website at www.causata.com.