Spiros Xanthos, VP of Product Management for Observability and IT Operations, Splunk
Spiros Xanthos is the VP of Product Management for Observability and IT Operations at Splunk, overseeing Splunk’s Observability and IT product portfolios. Previously, he was the CEO and founder of Omnition, an Observability platform for cloud-native applications that pioneered no-sample tracing and co-created OpenTelemetry. Omnition was acquired by Splunk in September 2019. Before Omnition, Spiros started and ran Pattern Insight that built Log Insight (a Log Analytics Platform) until selling it to VMware in 2012 and ezhome, which he ran until September 2017.