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Cribl was founded in 2018 to give IT and Security the choice, control, and flexibility required to adapt to their ever-changing data needs. Today, Cribl is one of the top performing tech companies, becoming one of the fastest infrastructure companies to surpass $100 million in annual recurring revenue, raising $400 million in funding from the world’s top investors, and leading the industry with its vendor-agnostic data processing engine purpose-built for IT and Security. The Cribl herd is led by an experienced team that has built and launched category-defining products for some of the most innovative tech companies.

Clint Sharp

CEO and Co-Founder

Dritan Bitincka

Head of Product and Co-Founder

Ledion Bitincka

CTO and Co-Founder

Farrah Bui

VP, Business Operations

Zachary Johnson

Chief Financial Officer

Matthew Kelly

Chief Legal Officer

Lisa Nielsen

Chief People Officer

Abby Strong

Chief Market Officer

Ali Tierney

Chief Revenue Officer

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Clint Sharp

CEO and Co-Founder

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Meet Clint, a Swiftie who also runs one of the fastest-growing tech companies (in that order). As the Co-Founder and CEO, he’s in charge of leading the Cribl herd––and by herd, we mean the amazing folks in product and engineering, sales and marketing, and the goats in G&A, too. Clint has led the company to record-breaking growth since 2018, including triple digit YoY customer and ARR growth, becoming one of the fastest infrastructure companies to surpass the $100 million ARR milestone, securing more than $400 million in funding from the world’s top investors, and transitioning Cribl to a multi-product data company for IT and Security. With a background at companies like Splunk and Cricket Communications, Clint has the battle scars of a seasoned practitioner, bringing his personal experience to better understand customer pain points and purchasing decisions. He’s not just the CEO, he’s a passionate product leader, a relentless customer advocate, and a lover (and teller) of baaad jokes.

Dritan Bitincka

Head of Product and Co-Founder

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This is Dritan. We call him D. D is the Co-Founder and head of product, where he leads our product management, product design, and technical guidance functions as well as our in-house innovation team, Cribl Zero-to-One. He’s known for incubating our newest products–like Cribl Edge and Cribl Search–and he’s focused on envisioning, building, and scaling our products to ensure customers’ needs are met.  Getting a demo from D can be transformative. He turns the ordinary into the amazing, helping customers get more value out of their data and existing tools. He’s a technical leader who previously served as a Principal Architect at Splunk, and he has designed and implemented hundreds of deployments of large-scale multi-TB distributed systems. He’s also the keeper of The Board™–signage that he kept from Cribl’s first-ever event booth, which stays by his side and is covered with mementos from his Cribl journey.

Ledion Bitincka

CTO and Founder
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Ledion is our CTO and Co-Founder. That means he’s the top goat in our engineering org, making sure we’re constantly shipping, always innovating, and never taking ourselves too seriously. He’s been at the forefront of launching our multi-product suite and brings an unwavering commitment to solving customer problems with a first principles approach (he might ask “Why?” five times, but that’s just to better understand the crux of the matter). Ledion has the cred(ion) as he has led the development of several enterprise products, including the introduction of Search-Time Schema and the design of Hunk and SmartStore while he was the Advanced Development Architect at Splunk.

Farrah Bui

VP, Business Operations
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Farrah is an OG Goat, joining Cribl in 2020 before it was the cool thing to do. Farrah runs our business operations and strategy teams, so she’s tasked with wrangling all the goats to ensure we stay aligned on our strategy and we know how to collaborate in our remote-first culture. Her team orchestrates the company cadence, manages how we measure success, and ensures programs stay on track. Farrah brings deep expertise across industries, including Google and Patagonia, where she drove strategy, operations, and insights to design and ship products (like those beloved vests!) Finally, we can’t make it this far without mentioning that she “went to school in Boston.” :wink:

Zachary Johnson

Chief Financial Officer
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As the Money Man, Zach oversees our finance team, including functions like FP&A, accounting, procurement, and tax. He’s also known for his Excel-ent skills–note-taking, presentations, he can do anything with a spreadsheet. Zach and his team are focused on building a sustainable business on our path to becoming a generational company, and he’s been instrumental in leading Cribl to record-breaking growth and raising $400 million in funding from the world’s top investors. He brings over a decade of experience in corporate finance, treasury, FP&A, acquisitions, and governance at companies like Splunk and RingCentral. One of the best expenses Zach approves: Donating a goat to a family in need for every new customer we work with!

Matthew Kelly

Chief Legal Officer

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Matthew leads our legal affairs, security, and IT teams here at Cribl. He also knows all the acronyms: ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA… In his role, he brings together our legal, IT, and security functions (pretty important for the Data Engine for IT and Security) to ensure Cribl remains a trusted partner to our customers. Matthew’s team is laser-focused on the security of our business and operations, running robust governance, compliance, and security programs that are undergirded by a best-in-class IT function. He most recently led legal, security, IT, and global real estate at ThoughtSpot, and was previously VP and Global Compliance Officer at ServiceNow from IPO to $1B in annual revenue. Fun fact about Matthew: In his interview, we asked him to tell us a good lawyer joke. His response: “Is there one?”

Lisa Nielsen

Chief People Officer
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We always say that software is a people business, and Lisa is our People person. She heads up our talent acquisition, people operations, total rewards, and talent success teams, and she’s most focused on bringing in and developing great goats and creating a place where everyone can do their best work. We’ve gone from dozens of employees in 2020 to more than 600 in 2024, and Lisa brings her experience as a people leader at high-growth SaaS companies like Amplitude and Looker to help us build and scale our culture. Two truths and a lie about Lisa? 1) She has lived as a yoga instructor in Costa Rica, 2) She owned a pie company in Vermont, 3) She will invite you to goat yoga. (Ok ok, they’re all true!)

Abby Strong

Chief Market Officer
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Abby is a “been there, done that, have the t-shirt to prove it” type of leader, bringing more than two decades of experience to lead our Market team. Abby builds high performing teams focused on driving brand awareness and explosive customer acquisition, including Marketing, Customer Advocacy, and Business Development. She leads with data-driven initiatives, crafting compelling narratives that resonate and propel industry disruption. She brings a strong technical background, as well as leadership experience from networking and security companies like Extreme, Aerohive, and Juniper, so she understands how to passionately market innovative tech to IT and Security, and can dive deep into our products and the larger ecosystem. She can also dive deep (literally) as an avid SCUBA diver and lover of all water activities.

Ali Tierney

Chief Revenue Officer

Ali leads our revenue org, so she loves puns like “rev your data engines!” As our CRO, she leads our global sales and customer experience teams, where she is deeply focused on delivering customer value and ensuring we remain a trusted partner for our customers. Ali was most recently the SVP of Sales at Snowflake, where she led the company’s expansion in Europe (and while she’s now back in the states, she still spells “analyze” with an “s” and insists the alphabet ends with the letter zed). She also held sales leadership roles at startups like AppDynamics and large enterprises like Oracle, HP, and IBM, so she brings experience acquiring hundreds of new customers, developing revenue growth strategies, and leading large sales teams. Ali also has a Criminal Justice degree, so when we see her IRL we say things like “Nothing to see here” and “It was already like that when I got here!”