Chef Appoints New CMO to Accelerate Global Awareness and Adoption of its Continuous Automation Platform

Chef, the leader in Continuous Automation, today announced the
appointment of Brian Goldfarb to the position of chief marketing officer
(CMO). Goldfarb deepens the DevOps pioneer’s executive bench as it
emerges from a record-setting year to accelerate delivery of its
continuous automation platform, giving global enterprises the ability to
deliver software faster.

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“Chef has always measured the value of its technology and the impact of
its innovation by the degree to which they directly benefit its
customers, partners and the open source community, a philosophy I
strongly support,” said Goldfarb. “The company is uniquely positioned to
help the rising tide of businesses build, manage and deploy applications
better, faster and more securely, in ways that significantly save time
and money. Without a doubt, enterprise automation and Chef’s unique
approach to accelerating the software development lifecycle is more
important than ever with hybrid cloud and container-based systems.
Chef’s extremely successful 2018 is a testament to the value Chef
provides, and I look forward to working closely with our community and
customers to accelerate its delivery in the coming years.”

Goldfarb brings more than 20 years of executive experience with a strong
track record of strategy development, business planning, digital
marketing and product marketing to Chef. He most recently served as CMO
at Splunk, where he drove and oversaw global marketing and helped drive
revenue growth across Splunk’s product portfolio. He previously served
as senior vice president of marketing for Salesforce’s Platform
division, where he oversaw a global marketing organization responsible
for generating more than $1 billion in revenue. He earlier served as CMO
of Google Cloud Platform, where he managed global marketing teams across
three regions, helped grow revenues by more than 400 percent and built
the foundation for the business to grow to over $1 billion. Prior to
Google, Goldfarb spent nearly 10 years at Microsoft, where he worked on
a variety of products, including .NET, Visual Studio, Silverlight and
product marketing for Microsoft Azure.

Goldfarb’s appointment comes on the heels of a record-setting 2018 for
Chef – a year in which the company celebrated a number of critical
milestones:

• Best bookings quarter in the company’s history (Q4)
• Revenue growth every year since founding in 2008
• Four years of inclusion in the Deloitte Fast 500
• More than half of the Fortune 500 using Chef

“Brian has an incredibly impressive history of proven expertise and
success in leading worldwide marketing programs for some of the most
innovative hyperscale cloud companies across the globe,” said Barry
Crist, Chef CEO. “His passion and experience are a great complement to
that of the others on the executive team as we continue to build
positive momentum with a focus on extending our transformative
automation platforms to drive the next phase of our rapid growth.”

About Chef

Chef is the leader in Continuous Automation software, an innovator in
cloud native operations and one of the founders of the DevOps movement.
Chef works with more than a thousand of the most innovative companies
around the world to deliver their vision of digital transformation,
providing the practices and platform to deliver software at speed. Chef
Automate is Chef’s Continuous Automation Platform which is powered by an
awesome community and open source software engines: Chef for
infrastructure, Habitat for applications, and InSpec for compliance. For
more visit http://www.chef.io.

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