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Alexis Schmidt 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 vice president 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, recruiting and building sales teams, acquiring customers of all sizes.

Matt brings over 25-years of leadership experience building high performance marketing teams at companies in early stage growth through to public companies. Matt came to Mattermost from Pantheon, a leading website management platform. Previously, Matt was vice president of marketing at Salesforce for seven years where he ran global web, creative services and online marketing. After Salesforce, Matt followed his belief that the web should be built on open source technologies. He held several executive leadership positions at open source companies including: systems monitoring and management company Hyperic (acquired), open source java framework and middleware company, SpringSource (acquired), and cloud-native platform company Pivotal (IPO). In addition to leading global marketing organizations, Matt has experience building and running developer relations and advocacy programs for some of the web's most important technologies including: Spring, Redis, RabbitMQ, and CloudFoundry.

Prior to joining Mattermost, Aneal was the Head of Strategic Finance at Mapbox, where he led the company's latest $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 $800 million to a $7 billion public company. He began his career in technology investment banking 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 with a B.S. in Finance 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.