SingleStore Appoints Prominent Tech Executive as New Board Member

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–SingleStore, the cloud-native database built for speed and scale in powering data-intensive applications, today announced that it has appointed Sue Bostrom to its board of directors. Bostrom has served on the boards of more than a dozen technology companies over the past two decades and was the former executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Cisco Systems. His appointment comes on the heels of SingleStore announcing that it closed its F-2 funding round at $146 million.

“We are excited that Sue will contribute her significant expertise across marketing and sales to our board, having influenced the go-to-market strategies of a wide range of technology companies,” said Raj. Verma, CEO of SingleStore. “Sue’s experience in helping companies grow rapidly will be invaluable as we continue to evolve and grow our organization.”

During his nearly 14 years at Cisco, Bostrom was responsible for developing and communicating the company’s vision and strategy through product positioning, branding, advertising and marketing. He also heads Worldwide Government Affairs. Prior to serving as CMO, Bostrom built and led Cisco’s Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG), bringing technology best practices to the Global Fortune 500. He also held leadership positions at FTP Software and National Semiconductor as well as at McKinsey & Company.

“SingleStore has a unique value proposition that meets a very important market need. This is reflected in both its high growth rate and customer retention. I look forward to working with Raj Verma and the rest of the board to help SingleStore deliver on this exciting market promise,” said Bostrom.

Bostrom is on the board of directors of public companies ServiceNow, GitLab and Samsara. He also serves on the boards of private companies Druva and Outreach.

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The world’s leading brands rely on data – to make the right business decisions, to deliver exceptional customer experiences and stay ahead of the competition. Dependence on data creates a need for simplicity, speed and scale. SingleStore delivers the world’s fastest distributed SQL database for data-intensive applications, SingleStoreDB. By consolidating transactional and analytical workloads, SingleStore eliminates performance bottlenecks and unnecessary data movement to support ever-growing, demanding workloads. Digital giants like Hulu, Uber and Comcast, and many of the world’s leading SaaS providers choose SingleStore to unleash the power of their data – supercharging exceptional, real-time data experiences for their customers. Follow us @SingleStoreDB and @SingleStoreDevs on Twitter or visit www.singlestore.com.

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