Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan is the founder and CEO of ClearStory Data. She also serves on the board of big data companies Hadapt and Lattice-Engines. Previously, Shahani-Mulligan served as chief marketing officer for Aster Data, where she led product and marketing strategy. There she created a new market category for big data analytics and drove Aster Data to a leading position within it. Aster Data was acquired by Teradata in April, 2011. Prior to Aster Data, Shahani-Mulligan was CMO of the largest business unit within HP software and was responsible for a $3+ billion software products portfolio spanning all major aspects of IT management. Prior to HP, she was CMO at Opsware, where she joined Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz to re-position Loudcloud into a software company and formed Opsware in 2002, which was eventually acquired by HP for $1.65 billion; she has also held executive positions at Kiva Software, Netscape, AOL, and Totality.