ClearStory Data Names Stephanie McReynolds Vice President of Marketing and Product Management

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - Feb 5, 2013) - ClearStory Data, a company delivering a new big data solution that makes it easy for business users to find, combine and interactively analyze disparate data from both corporate and third-party sources, today announced that Stephanie McReynolds has joined the company as vice president of marketing and product management. McReynolds leads product management, product marketing and corporate marketing functions, reporting directly to CEO Sharmila Mulligan.

"ClearStory Data is pioneering a new way for business users to gain immediate and interactive data insights on a scale necessary for today's diverse data landscape," said Mulligan. "Stephanie brings proven big data experience and a solid track record of successfully productizing innovations in data infrastructure and analytic application categories."

McReynolds has more than a decade of experience in marketing and product management for the analytics and data management markets, including experience in real-time data processing, data warehousing infrastructure, business intelligence and advanced analytic applications. Previously, McReynolds was senior director of product and technical marketing at Teradata. In April 2011, Teradata acquired Aster Data, where McReynolds drove product marketing for Aster Data's big data analytics platform. Prior to Aster Data, she was director of product management at Oracle, where she brought to market Oracle's first complex event processing platform and was part of the core team that grew Oracle's Fusion Middleware business from $150M to over $2B in less than 5 years. At PeopleSoft, she led the product management team responsible for all reporting and analytic features in the PeopleSoft CRM Suite of products. She also held key marketing roles at Business Objects and Epiphany.

"The ClearStory Data team is leveraging several years of innovation in big data technology and building a new solution that fundamentally transforms the way that business users interact with data," said McReynolds. "I am excited to join ClearStory Data as the company goes to market with a solution enabling widespread adoption of big data analytics."

McReynolds earned both bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford University.

About ClearStory Data
ClearStory Data (www.clearstorydata.com) is making it easy for business users to find, combine and interactively explore big, diverse data across first-party and third-party sources for immediate insights. The ClearStory Data team has decades of combined experience at Aster Data, BusinessObjects, Google, Netscape, Opsware, Oracle and Teradata. The company is backed by investments from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Silicon Valley industry leaders.