Michael Baum (entrepreneur)
Michael Baum | |
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| Born | Michael Joseph Baum May 28, 1962 (age 63) |
| Education | Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A.) Drexel University (BSc.) |
| Occupation(s) | Businessman, investor, software engineer |
| Known for | Founder & CEO of Founder.org Board member of Gemini Data Co-founder & CEO of Splunk Founder of Big Data Supper Club Co-founder of Collation VP e-Commerce at Yahoo! Co-founder & COO of DotBank VP e-Commerce at Disney Co-founder & CEO of 280 Co-founder & CEO of Pensoft Co-founder & CTO at Reality CEO & Propriétaire at Chateau de Pommard |
| Parent(s) | Mardell A. Baum Richard L. Baum, Sr. |
| Website | founder |
Michael Baum (born May 28, 1962) is an American businessman and investor. He is best known as the founder & CEO of Splunk, a big data software technology used for understanding machine-generated data primarily for systems management, security forensics, compliance reporting and real-time operational intelligence. Baum is the founder of six technology start-ups, five of which have been acquired and one (NASDAQ: SPLK) which went public. He has also been a venture capital investor with Rembrandt Venture Partners, Advent International and Crosspoint Venture Partners. Baum graduated with a computer science degree from Drexel University and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In September 2014, Baum became CEO & Propriétaire of Château de Pommard, a Burgundy winery established in 1726.