Splunk Inc. appointed Brian Roberts as the Company's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (‘CFO'), effective immediately. Mr. Roberts will serve as the Company's principal financial officer. Gary Steele, the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer and interim principal financial officer since September 2022, will end his term as interim principal financial officer effective as of Mr. Roberts's appointment.

Mr. Roberts, age 54, served as Chief Financial Officer of Ozone Networks Inc. (d/b/a OpenSea), a non-fungible token marketplace, from 2021 to 2022. From 2014 to 2021, Mr. Roberts served as Chief Financial Officer of Lyft Inc., a transportation platform company, and also served as its Senior Vice President, Partnerships and Corporate Development in 2014. From 2011 to 2014, Mr. Roberts served as Senior Vice President, Business Development and Strategy at Walmart Global eCommerce, a division of Walmart Inc., a multinational retail company.

Prior to Walmart, Mr. Roberts served as Senior Managing Director at Evercore Inc., an investment banking advisory firm, and before that in corporate development leadership roles at software companies Microsoft Corporation and Inktomi Corporation. Mr. Roberts holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.