Leadership

Dan Bodner has served as chairman of the board of Verint since August 2017. Dan has held the role of chief executive officer and has served as a director of the company since its founding in 1994. Under his vision and leadership, Verint experienced rapid growth, completed a successful IPO in 2002, followed by continued growth and achieving significant scale and global presence with over $1 billion of revenue in 2015. He recently oversaw the successful completion of the spin-off of Cognyte Software Ltd. (Nasdaq: CGNT) into an independent public pure-play security analytics company and the transformation of Verint into a pure-play Customer Engagement Company.

John Egan has served as a director on the Verint board since August 2012 and as lead independent director since August 2017. John is a founding managing partner of Egan-Managed Capital and has served as a managing partner of financial services firm Carruth Associates since 1998. He has held various executive roles in operations, product, sales and marketing at EMC Corporation, and also served as a director of both EMC Corporation and VMWare prior to Dell acquiring EMC in 2016. John currently serves on the board of directors for NetScout as lead director and for Progress Software Corporation as the non-executive chairman of the board.

Linda Crawford has served as a director since June 2021. Linda most recently served as the chief executive officer of Helpshift, a company focused on AI driven customer support solutions for B2C companies. She also served as the chief customer officer of Optimizely, a SaaS company focused on customer experience. Prior to Optimizely, Linda spent nearly a decade at Salesforce in several executive positions, including executive vice president and chief executive officer of the Sales Cloud Products division. Prior to Salesforce, she held executive positions at Siebel Systems, the company credited for creating the CRM industry. Linda has served on the board of Demandware (NYSE), acquired by Salesforce in 2016.

Reid French has served as a director since June 2021. Reid was chief executive officer of Applied Systems, the leading cloud software provider to the insurance distribution industry. He served as chief operating officer at Intergraph Corporation, a global geospatial and computer-aided design software company. Early on he was a strategic planner for Walt Disney Company, and managed investment banking transactions in the technology sector for Robinson-Humphrey. He has previously served on the boards of Applied Systems and Paradigm Software. Reid is currently a director on the boards of Autodesk (Nasdaq: ADSK), Anthology, a leading provider of software to higher learning institutions, and NetDocuments, a cloud-based productivity and content services provider to the legal industry.

Stephen Gold has served as a director on the Verint board of directors since August 2018. Stephen is currently the chief technology officer and digital operations officer for Hudson’s Bay Company. Prior to joining Hudson’s Bay Company, he was with CVS Health Corporation where he served as executive vice president, chief information officer and as a member of the executive committee. Stephen has also held executive roles at Avaya, Inc., serving as senior vice president and chief information officer. In addition to his extensive executive management experience, Gold served as a director and member of the Governance and the Technology and Operations Committees of World Fuel Service Corporation and has been an advisor to early-stage technology companies.

Bill Kurtz has served as a director on the Verint board since September 2016. Bill is currently the chief commercial officer of Ripcord, Inc. where he previously served as chief commercial and finance officer. He held senior executive and strategic advisor roles with Bloom Energy Corporation including executive vice president and chief commercial officer, chief financial officer and CCO. Bill has also held CFO or senior finance roles at Novellus Systems, Engenio Information Technologies, 3PARdata, Scient Corporation and AT&T Corporation. He is a past member of the board of directors of Violin Memory, Inc., PMC-Sierra and Redback Networks. Bill is currently on the board of directors of Mohawk Group (Nasdaq: MWK) and Ripcord.

Andrew Miller has served as a director since December 2019. Andrew most recently served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of PTC, a global subscription software and cloud leader in the CAD Product Lifecycle Management and Industrial Internet of Things Software markets. He served as executive vice president and chief financial officer at Cepheid, Inc., a high growth public medical technology company. Andrew has also held senior executive positions Autodesk, MarketFirst Software, Cadence Design Systems, and Silicon Graphics. He is a past member of the board of United Online and currently sits on the boards of Vontier Corporation (NYSE: VNT) and iRobot Corporation (Nasdaq: IRBT), a leading global consumer robot company.

Richard Nottenburg, Ph.D. has served as a director since February 2013 and previously in 2011 from July to November. Richard is an investor in various early-stage technology companies. He previously served as president and chief executive officer and as a member of the board of directors of Sonus Networks, Inc., and has held senior executive roles with Motorola, Inc. including executive vice president, chief strategy officer and chief technology officer. He is a past member of the board of directors of PMC-Sierra Inc., Aeroflex Holding Corp., Anaren, Inc., Comverse Technology, Inc., and Violin Memory, Inc. Richard is currently a member of the board of directors of Sequans Communications S.A. (NYSE: SQNS), Cognyte Software Ltd. (Nasdaq: CGNT), and Applied Blockchain, Inc. (Nasdaq: APLD).

Kristen Robinson has served as a director since February 2022. Most recently, Kristen was the chief people officer of Splunk Inc., a cloud software data platform that helps turn data into action for observability, IT and security. She previously served as the chief human resources officer of Pandora Media, a subscription-based music streaming service. Prior to Pandora, Kristen held human resources, marketing and new venture executive positions at Yahoo, Verigy and Agilent Technologies. She is currently on the board of directors at Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) and has served on the Future of Work advisory council at Betterworks since 2017.

Yvette Smith has served as a director since April 2023. Yvette currently serves as chief information officer and senior vice president of customer success and business transformation at F5, Inc. (Nasdaq: FFIV), a multi-cloud application services and security company.  She previously served as corporate vice president, enterprise support and customer success programs at Microsoft Corporation. Prior to Microsoft, Yvette served in management positions at Xerox Corporation and IBM Corporation.

Jason Wright has served as a director since May 2020. Jason is a Partner in the Tech & Teleco Group at Apax Partners LLC, where he focuses primarily on investments in enterprise software and technology enabled services. He is also currently a director on the boards of Paycor, Duck Creek (Nasdaq: DCT), Eci Software Solutions, TIVIT, and MyCase. Prior to joining Apax in 2000, Jason served in a variety of roles at GE Capital, a subsidiary of General Electric Corporation, including the evaluation and execution of investment opportunities for the Technology Ventures Group. Jason was also a consultant at Andersen Consulting, now Accenture.