Garth Fort

Senior Vice President, Chief Product Officer, Splunk

Garth is responsible for evolving Splunk’s market-leading product portfolio of software and cloud services. With over 25 years of product management experience, he has a true passion for driving product road maps across established and emerging categories while successfully guiding software teams through high growth and transitions to the cloud. Prior to Splunk, Garth served as a general manager for Amazon Web Services and led innovation for customers, independent software vendors and channel partners. He also held several leadership positions with Microsoft and oversaw the worldwide ecosystem strategy and execution for its cloud and enterprise division, including Microsoft Azure, Windows Server and SQL Server. He holds an A.B. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.