Satyen Sangani

Satyen Sangani is Co-Founder and CEO at Alation, a data intelligence platform that pioneered the enterprise data catalog market. He holds a Master's in Economics from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor's from Columbia University.
Before co-founding Alation in 2012, Satyen spent nearly a decade at Oracle leading the Financial Services Warehousing and Performance Management business. Prior to Oracle, he worked as an analyst at Morgan Stanley and as an associate at Texas Pacific Group.
Satyen launched the Data Radicals podcast in 2022 and has been named to the DataIQ 100 Most Influential People in Data. He was recognized as one of the Most Exceptional Entrepreneurs of 2022 by Goldman Sachs.
Under his leadership, Alation raised $340 million in total funding and achieved unicorn status in 2021 with a $1.7 billion valuation. The company surpassed $100 million in ARR in 2022 and serves over 450 brands including 40% of Fortune 100 companies.
Alation serves major enterprises like Cisco, Pfizer, Salesforce, and NASDAQ with its data intelligence platform. The company has grown to over 700 employees globally and was named Snowflake Data Governance Partner of the Year three consecutive years.