Experience management software giant Qualtrics on Tuesday named Jason Maynard as its new CEO. Maynard previously spent a decade at Oracle, where he was executive vice president of revenue operations.
“I’ve spent 30 years in enterprise software; as a founder, as an analyst on Wall Street, and as an operator helping scale great businesses,” Maynard wrote in a blog post. “I’ve had a front-row seat to some of the biggest shifts in our industry, and right now we’re in the middle of the largest I’ve ever seen.”
Maynard replaces former longtime Qualtrics exec Zig Serafin, who stepped down as CEO in October. He remains vice chairman.
Qualtrics, based in Provo, Utah, and Seattle, helps companies gather data and improve the experiences and interactions that customers, employees, and others have with their products and services. Once publicly traded, Qualtrics was acquired by Silver Lake and Canada Pension Pan Investment Board in a private equity deal in 2023. The company has a pending $6.75 billion deal to acquire Press Ganey Forsta.
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