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Alteryx Expands Leadership Team with Appointment of Jon Pexton as Chief Financial Officer and Steven Birdsall as Chief Revenue Officer

Leading analytics company strengthens its executive leadership team with the appointment of key executive leaders, reinforcing its commitment to analytics and AI innovation for global customers

10th March, 2025 – Alteryx, Inc., an AI platform for enterprise analytics, today announced the appointment of Jon Pexton as Chief Financial Officer and Steven Birdsall as Chief Revenue Officer to lead the company’s next phase of growth. These key additions to the executive team underscore Alteryx’s commitment to helping customers scale their AI and analytics automation journey.

As Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), Pexton will oversee all global financial operations, including strategic planning, budgeting, and investor relations. Pexton brings more than two decades of experience in financial leadership including equity and debt offerings, mergers and acquisitions, international expansion, and strategic planning at high-growth technology companies. He has been the CFO of five companies, most recently serving as CFO of Tebra, a healthcare practice automation software company. Prior to Tebra, Pexton was the CFO of UserTesting, an on-demand SaaS platform for user research and feedback.

In the role of Chief Revenue Officer (“CRO”), Birdsall will drive Alteryx’s global revenue strategy, focusing on sales and customer success, retention and acquisition, along with partnerships and market expansion. With more than 25 years of experience in scaling revenue operations in both public and private companies, Birdsall most recently served as CRO at Qlik, where he drove revenue growth and implemented data-driven strategies. He was previously Senior Vice President of HCM Cloud Application Sales at Oracle and CRO at Anaplan, leading the company’s sales organization ahead of and through an IPO. Birdsall also held leadership roles as CRO at Radial and Chief Operating Officer at SAP.

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New Research Reveals that AI Brings Productivity Gains, but Reliance on Spreadsheets Puts Data Quality at Risk

New Alteryx Global Research Highlights the Evolving Strategic Role of Analysts in the Era of AI

United Arab Emirates — February 19, 2025 – Alteryx, Inc.,  an AI platform for enterprise analytics, today released research exploring the evolving role of the data analyst.

The report, titled “The 2025 State of the Data Analyst in the Age of AI,” surveyed 1,400 global analysts including data, IT and operations analysts, across five industries to determine how the role of the data analyst is evolving amidst the rapid rise of analytics automation and AI tools. The report suggests a shift toward a more strategic role that reflects a transformation of the traditional analyst.

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Alteryx Appoints Andy MacMillan as Chief Executive OfficerSoftware Industry Veteran to Drive Product Innovation and Growth Acceleration at Alteryx

Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDecember 9, 2024 — Alteryx, Inc., an AI platform for enterprise analytics backed by global private equity firms Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with certain of its affiliates, “Clearlake”) and Insight Partners (“Insight”),

today announced the appointment of Andy MacMillan as Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”). In his new role, MacMillan will drive Alteryx forward in its mission to empower organizations to turn their data into insights and deliver better business outcomes.

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Alteryx Unveils Industry’s First AI Assistant Designed to Empower Users to Seamlessly Build Analytical Workflows

Alteryx AiDIN Copilot designed to streamline analytics workflows with natural language AI to make it easier to onboard new users and drive decisions up to seven times faster across the enterprise

Suresh Vittal, chief product officer at Alteryx

Dubai, UAE – 16th May, 2024Alteryx, Inc., a leader in AI for enterprise analytics, today announced Alteryx AiDIN Copilot, the industry’s first AIassistant designed to empower users to seamlessly build analytical workflows for improved revenue and business efficiency. Alteryx AiDIN Copilot willleverageGoogle Cloud’s Gemini AI models to give customers a conversational interface to interact with data.

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Trust, ethical and skills issues stand in the way of ‘game changer’ genAI across the UAE

Trust, ethical and skills issues stand in the way of ‘game changer’ genAI across the UAE

  • New research from Alteryx reveals 76% of consumers say genAI is a ‘game changer’ technology, while 81% of businesses are positive about the value it will create
  • However, both highlight consistent barriers to the successful rollout of genAI in their working and personal lives

Trevor Schulze, CIO at Alteryx

DUBAI — May 9, 2024 — New research launched today by Alteryx, Inc., a leader in AI for enterprise analytics, reveals that 76% of consumers across the UAE believe that AI will be a major gamechanger in the next five years, but remain both sceptical about the value it will deliver (43%) and fearful (34%) of how it will be used.

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