CEO

Will Hayes

Will joined Lucidworks in 2013 as our Chief Product Officer and was appointed CEO in 2014. He has over 15 years of product, marketing, and business development experience. Prior to Lucidworks he was head of technical business development for Splunk, where he was responsible for defining the company’s market category and key product feature sets. He created and led the company’s global partner program, building an ecosystem of consultants, developers, resellers, system integrators, service providers, and technology partners. Earlier in his career, Hayes served as a software engineer at Genentech, where he built solutions that supported the sales and drug development teams in their field activities.

Founder & Chief Technology Officer

Grant Ingersoll

Grant is the CTO and co-founder of Lucidworks, co-author of Taming Text, co-founder of Apache Mahout and a long-standing committer on the Apache Lucene and Solr open source projects. Grant’s experience includes engineering a variety of search, question answering, and natural language processing applications for a variety of domains and languages. He earned his B.S. from Amherst College in Math and Computer Science and his M.S. in Computer Science from Syracuse University.

Chief Operating Officer

Reade Frank

Reade has been a CFO for early-stage and emerging companies for more than 12 years. Before joining Lucidworks, Reade was co-founder of AngelPoints, helping some of the largest companies in the world engage employees in volunteering, giving, and sustainability. Reade was the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and a member of the board of directors of AngelPoints which was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2012. He also spent a couple years in investment banking in NYC and more than four years at a Philadelphia-based startup. Reade graduated from Yale University with a BA in History.

Chief Customer Officer

Amanda Berger

Amanda’s commitment to business results drives each aspect of her work as Chief Customer Officer at Lucidworks. Leading a team of innovators and experts in our Customer Success, Professional Services, and Support organizations, her goal is to ensure that every customer optimizes the business impact of Lucidworks search and analytics deployments. Harnessing decades of experience and impact at MicroStrategy, Guidance Software (now Opentext), and RichRelevance, Amanda delivers true partnership as she works with Lucidworks customers to optimize the impact of technology innovation and accelerates business results. She holds a degree in Philosophy from Occidental College and is based in San Francisco.

Chief Product Officer

Stefan Olafsson

Specializing in search and big data applications, Stefan has been in architecting and bringing enterprise software to market for over 15 years, most recently as founder and CEO of Twigkit, subsequently acquired by Lucidworks.

During his tenure at FAST and Microsoft he helped some of the world’s largest companies and government agencies tackle complex problems with search technologies. Prior to that, he was the founder and CEO of VYRE, a content and media management platform acquired in 2003.

Stefan holds a B.Sc. in Business & Economics, and an M.Sc. with Distinction in the Design of Information Systems from the London School of Economics.

Chief Revenue Officer

Jeff Depa

Jeff joined Lucidworks as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations in May 2016. He leads the company’s day-to-day field operations, including its rapidly growing, sales, alliances and channels, systems engineering and professional services business. Prior to Lucidworks, Jeff has over 17 years in leadership positions across sales, consulting, and systems engineering with companies such as Oracle, Sun, and most recently at Datastax. Jeff earned a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and also holds a Masters in Management. Aside for a passion to enable clients to unleash the power of their data, Jeff is an avid pilot and enjoys spending time with his family in Austin, TX.

Chief People Officer

Ellen Petry Leanse

Author, Stanford instructor, and digital pioneer Ellen Petry Leanse has spent 35 years as an innovator at Apple and Google, as an entrepreneur, and advising dozens of Silicon Valley leaders. An alum of early Apple, she served on the Macintosh launch team and led the company’s groundbreaking 1985 debut as an online innovator. Her work since then has spanned entrepreneurship, investing, and leadership coaching – experiences she combines with deep knowledge of neuroscience, design, and wisdom practices. In her popular Stanford class, Ellen guides companies and individuals to “think different” about innovation, impact, and using business as a canvas for positive change. She’s been featured on CNN and the Today Show, and in Time Magazine, Vogue, Forbes, Inc., and Entrepreneur. Her bestselling book “The Happiness Hack” shares brain-aware paths to focus, connection, and life satisfaction. She frequently speaks on design, equality, neuroscience, and the future of innovation.

Chief Marketing Officer

Vivek Sriram

Prior to joining Lucidworks, Vivek led product and business development for the search business at Amazon Web Services, where he co-created Amazon Elasticsearch Service and helped grow the search business from inception to large scale. In his 20+ years in software Vivek served in engineering, business development, and product roles at various companies including Lucidworks, Vizu (acquired by Nielsen), Aggregate Knowledge (acquired by Neustar), and SBI Razorfish.

Chief Operating Officer for Global Emerging Markets

Robert Lau

With far-reaching knowledge and decades of proven experience across Asia Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East and Africa, Robert Lau is passionate about the power of innovation to transform business and economic growth. As Chief Operating Officer for Global Emerging Markets, Robert leverages expertise in enterprise technology spanning early research and development in AI as well as leadership at breakthrough companies including Portal, ArcSight, Splunk, and Elasticsearch.

A serial entrepreneur-executive, Robert holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from Texas A&M University and has completed graduate studies in Computer Science at Stanford University, with a focus on AI. After creating market-changing results as Elastic’s Founding EVP of APAC and Japan, Robert spent a year traveling the globe, exploring historic and cultural sites across the continents and reveling in the auroras at Norway’s Arctic Rim.

Join the team

Every day we work with the world’s largest brands to design, develop, and deploy scalable search apps with our Fusion platform. We tackle the big problems of big data and help companies all over the world deliver a relevant, intelligent search experience to end users both inside and outside the enterprise. Sounds like fun, right? Send your resume to careers@lucidworks.com.