Mark T. Nelson
Software executive and technologist
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Board Member
2024 - Current
Spotnana’s mission is to modernize the infrastructure of the travel industry.
Travel-as-a-Service platform
Raised $116,000,000.00 from Blank Ventures, Madrona, ICONIQ Growth, Durable Capital Partners and Mubadala Capital Ventures.
Venture Partner
2023
Strategic Director
2021 - 2023
Madrona is a venture firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies in the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
Member Board of Directors
2022
Board Member for CircleCI - the leading continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform.
Distiller is an iOS application development company that builds, tests, and deploys mobile applications.
Board Member
2024
Helping every user in an organization be able to feed their own curiosity and make better decisions with data.
Strategic Advisor
2023
Software engineering organizations use Uplevel's insights to increase product velocity, quality, and team well-being. Engineering management is about building a human system that allows engineers to do their best work. Uplevel provides the visibility to see how your system is working.
Engineering intelligence platform, software development analytics, software engineering value stream management software
Raised $34,000,000.00 from Cota Capital, Voyager Capital, Madrona, Norwest Venture Partners, Harris Barton and Bruce Chizen.
President and CEO at Tableau Software, the world’s leading analytics platform
2021 - 2022
Tableau helps people see and understand data.
Executive Vice President of Product Development
2018 - 2021
Responsible for leading the global engineering team at Tableau, helping the company continue to broaden and deepen its industry leading analytics platform to support customers globally.
Tableau helps global organizations unleash the power of their most valuable assets: their data and their people.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from Meritech Capital Partners.
Board Member
2018 - 2020
Board member and member of the compensation committee.
Talend specializes in cloud data integration and data integrity.
Raised $101,580,000.00 from TCV, Silver Lake, Sumeru Equity Partners, Bpifrance, IRIS and Silver Lake Sumeru.
Technical Advisor
2018 - 2020
Technical advisor and mentor
Topia is a talent mobility platform that enables companies to effectively deploy, oversee, and engage their employees globally.
Raised $163,022,853.00 from Horizon Technology Finance.
Advisory Board Member
2016 - 2020
Growth Advisory Board member for Skytap - a public cloud provider building the only cloud designed from the ground up to run traditional enterprise applications, equipping teams with what they need to accelerate delivery and decrease costs to develop, train, and run enterprise applications.
Skytap Cloud accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services.
Raised $127,510,000.00 from Vistara Growth.
CTO
2013 - 2018
As CTO, I was responsible for all technology at Concur including all aspects of product development (coding, testing, release management, deployment) as well as hosting operations for our SaaS services and Concur's internal IT functions.
SAP Concur engages in developing travel management software and solutions.
Raised $291,754,092.00 from Mayfield Fund.