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Alexis Schmidt is VP of Worldwide Sales at Mattermost, Inc. and has more than 25 years of experience helping category-leading technology companies drive growth and market adoption. He spent the last 10 years in leadership positions at open source companies, building their communities and scaling their businesses. Prior to joining Mattermost, Alexis served as worldwide VP of Sales at CoreOS (acquired by RedHat), building the sales organization from the ground up and acquiring the company’s initial customers. Before CoreOS, Alexis held sales leadership positions at Docker, Hortonworks (IPO 2014), and SpringSource (acquired by VMware). At all these companies, he was instrumental in developing go-to-market strategies, creating sales processes, building sales teams, and acquiring customers of all sizes.

Alison Holmlund is VP of Customer Success at Mattermost, Inc. In this role, she oversees all aspects of the Mattermost customer experience, including customer education, services, support, and success. Alison has over 20 years of experience building customer service teams at fast-growing technology companies. Prior to joining Mattermost, Alison held leadership positions at Mixpanel, Host Analytics (acquired by Vector Capital), and Proofpoint (IPO 2012), where she built and scaled the customer education, professional services, customer support, and customer success functions. Alison has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where she also played on the volleyball and softball teams. She has served on the board of directors for several non-profit organizations, received a Customer Service Executive of the Year award, and was named a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

Aneal Vallurupalli is VP of Finance at Mattermost, Inc. Prior to joining Mattermost, Aneal was the Head of Strategic Finance at Mapbox, where he led the company's $164M Series C round of funding from SoftBank. He also was a founding member of the Corporate Development team at Guidewire (NYSE:GWRE), helping to grow it from an $800 million to a $7 billion public company. He began his career in technology as an investment banker at Union Square Advisors, completing a range of public and private M&A transactions including buy-side, sell-side, corporate divestitures, and private placements. Aneal graduated from Santa Clara University, where he played Division I tennis. He serves on the Board of Directors for The Saint Francis Foundation, a San Francisco-based non-profit organization that benefits Saint Francis Memorial Hospital and the Tenderloin community.

Chris Overton is VP of Engineering at Mattermost, Inc. He spent his early career in the security space, working with startups in the anti-spyware, encryption, content filtering, and anti-virus spaces. He's built software for mobile, PC, Mac, web applications, servers, and hardware appliances. Chris' last several roles have focused on the public and hybrid cloud. Specifically, Chris has had a focus on building and operating public SaaS services, distributed systems, analytics/processing of large data sets, and search. Chris comes to Mattermost from Elastic, where he served as VP of Engineering and was responsible for the Cloud product division.