AuditBoard Names Sarika Khanna as CPO, To Help Lead Next Phase of Innovation and Growth
2024年5月2日 - 1:00AM
ビジネスワイヤ(英語)
Former product leader at Medallia and SAP joins
executive team while company appoints Haibei (Happy) Wang CTO,
Kevin Jhangiani CAO.
AuditBoard, the leading cloud-based platform transforming audit,
risk, compliance, and ESG management, today announced it has named
SaaS public company product development executive, Sarika Khanna,
as Chief Product Officer (CPO) to lead ongoing customer-centric
innovation for AuditBoard’s award-winning connected risk platform
through continued global scale.
“AuditBoard’s platform has been repeatedly recognized by its
customers as best in class, which reflects its commitment to
innovation and a focus on the practitioner,” said Khanna. “I'm
delighted to bring my passion for customer innovation, experience
scaling teams, and deep technical expertise to support the
company’s continued customer-led platform leadership and
growth.”
AuditBoard also announced it has appointed Haibei (Happy) Wang,
as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), expanding her role to include
oversight of technology and development strategies as well as the
related global functions for the company. She serves as a strategic
leader for the technology department, continuing to shape the
technology roadmap and driving innovation. In addition, Kevin
Jhangiani has been named Chief Architect Officer (CAO), responsible
for shaping the architecture strategy for the company’s
award-winning platform.
These technology leadership announcements come on the heels of
AuditBoard’s continued rapid growth and customer recognition. The
company surpassed $200 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR)
last year, thanks to best-in-class customer sentiment for the
platform. Based on overwhelmingly positive customer reviews,
AuditBoard was cited as a Top 100 Software Product (amongst more
than 100,000 apps across all B2B categories and industries) in G2’s
Best B2B Software Awards for the second year in a row. The company
also recently introduced new, powerful AI capabilities with the
availability of AuditBoard AI, as well as a robust set of native
analytics capabilities.
“Customers trust AuditBoard to elevate their audit, risk, and
compliance teams through our modern connected risk management
platform, which consistently garners praise and recognition from
practitioners,” said Scott Arnold, President and CEO at AuditBoard.
“I’m thrilled to welcome Sarika and am excited about how her
leadership can empower AuditBoard to deliver new customer
innovation for AuditBoard’s platform as we continue to grow. I’d
also like to congratulate Happy on her elevation to CTO and express
my personal excitement to have two such accomplished female leaders
atop our technical organizations, working closely with Kevin to
drive continued innovation and scale.”
About the New Executives
Sarika Khanna, CPO
As CPO, Khanna will focus on keeping customer-centric innovation
at the forefront, building and retaining a world-class product and
design organization, and leading the company’s product strategy and
vision. Khanna is a global C-level executive with over 25 years of
experience and deep domain expertise as a Chief Product Officer in
B2B and SaaS organizations ranging from startups to
multi-billion-dollar companies. Most recently she served as the
Chief Product Officer for Medallia Inc (NYSE:MDLA), a leading B2B
SaaS customer and employee experience platform serving over 1000
leading brands including half of the Fortune 100. Khanna has also
held product leadership positions at Oracle, SAP, CallidusCloud,
and Litmos.
Happy Wang, CTO
As CTO, Wang oversees the technology vision, strategy, and
execution for AuditBoard to support the company's overall
objectives and align technology initiatives with growth goals. In
her previous role as Chief Development Officer at AuditBoard, Wang
led the company’s Engineering and IT teams. Before joining
AuditBoard, Wang served as the Chief Technology Officer at
Everbridge, where she led worldwide product development, data, and
artificial intelligence and machine learning teams. Prior to
Everbridge, she spent more than 20 years in technology leadership
roles within public and private high-growth technology companies
including ServiceNow, PayPal, Globality, and AccelOps/Fortinet.
Wang has a history of serving as a customer advocate and playing
pivotal leadership roles in delivering top-performing,
customer-centric products and services to scale technology
businesses.
Kevin Jhangiani, CAO
As Chief Architect Officer, Jhangiani oversees the design and
implementation of AuditBoard’s architecture strategy, working
closely with AuditBoard’s CPO and CTO to ensure that the company's
technological infrastructure aligns with its business objectives
and supports its innovation initiatives. Prior to this new role,
Jhangiani served in a variety of technical roles at AuditBoard –
from early start-up as one of the company’s first employees, to
scaling the business beyond $200M in ARR as its CTO. His vision and
expertise have been central to AuditBoard’s success in introducing
market innovations and world-class solutions to meet the needs of
today's corporate audit, risk, infosec, and ESG teams. Prior to
AuditBoard, Jhangiani held technology leadership roles at
CommercePack, including three years as CTO. He has an M.S. in
Biomedical Engineering from UCLA and a B.A. in Computational &
Systems Biology (Cybernetics) from UCLA.
Former CPO Evan Fitzpatrick has moved into a role as a
technology advisor.
About AuditBoard
AuditBoard is the leading cloud-based platform transforming
audit, risk, compliance, and ESG compliance management. Nearly 50%
of the Fortune 500 leverage AuditBoard to move their businesses
forward with greater clarity and agility. AuditBoard is top-rated
by customers on G2, Capterra, and Gartner Peer Insights, and was
recently ranked for the fifth year in a row as one of the
fastest-growing technology companies in North America by Deloitte.
To learn more, visit: AuditBoard.com.
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