Splunk Inc. announced the appointment of Shawn Bice, a cloud and software leader with decades of experience in building and leading transformative Cloud, SaaS, and data management technology enterprises, to the newly created position of President of Products and Technology, effective June 1, 2021. Leading Splunk’s Product and Technology organization, Bice will report to CEO Doug Merritt, overseeing technical divisions including product, engineering, design, architecture, as well as the CIO, CTO, and CISO functions. Under his leadership, Splunk will continue to help customers lower costs, reduce complexity, and accelerate innovation by optimizing their data investments to support their long-term business strategies. Bice joins Splunk from AWS, where he spent the last five years overseeing the cloud company’s database products, including Amazon Aurora & Relational Database Service (RDS), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElasiCache, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, Amazon Keyspaces, Amazon Quantum Ledger Database, and Amazon Timestream.