David Clarke

Special Advisor

2022 - Current

Venture Partner

2021

As a Venture Partner at Frontline, David works with the Frontline team and portfolio with a particular focus on technology strategy and product team scaling. https://www.frontline.vc/people/david-clarke/

Investor and Board Chair

2021

Managing Partner

2020

Political Advisor

2020

Chief Technology Officer

2019 - 2020

David Clarke is chief technology officer at Workday, and is responsible for defining and communicating the strategic direction of the company’s technology.

Senior VP Engineering

2008 - 2019

Having joined Workday via the acquisition of Cape Clear in 2008, I worked in a variety of senior roles, and ran the engineering group for 7 years from 2012-2019. This encompassed the development, operations, infrastructure, integrations, analytics and security organizations. During this time, the team grew from about 150 people to about 1500. Our transaction workload scaled from <1MM/month to >20Bn/month. As a member of the SMT, I was intimately involved in all aspects of the company's technical and business operations as we scaled from our first customers to being a large public company.

co-founding CEO, Senior VP Products

1999 - 2008

Co-founded Cape Clear- an integration middleware vendor and a leading provider of ESBs (Enterprise service Bus). Cape Clear raised over $50MM in investment capital from leading VC firms including Accel and Greylock, and grew to a multi-$M ARR before being acquired by Workday in 2008.

Senior Product Manager

1996 - 1999

Worked as a PM in IONA during its hyper-growth phase, up to and including what was then the 2nd biggest software IPO (after Netscape) in 1998. Managed its flagship 'Orbix' CORBA middleware product and introduced a number of new products to market.

business analyst

1993 - 1996