Executive Vice President and COO
Keith Carlson is the executive vice president and COO at MarkLogic. Keith has more than 25 years of experience growing services and software companies in Silicon Valley. Keith began his career at Accenture, where he worked his way up from staff consultant to senior Partner. In 1994, he founded Accenture’s highly successful partnership with Siebel Systems. Under Keith’s leadership, Accenture’s Siebel practice grew to 1,000 professionals and $400M in annual sales in six years. Prior to joining MarkLogic, Keith was president and CEO of Growth Stage Partners, a specialty consulting firm focused on advising high-growth technology companies in the areas of professional services and strategic alliances. Previously, Keith was president and CEO of Innotas where he was responsible for all strategic and operational activities at the fast-growing SaaS software company. Prior to this, Keith was vice president of global services at Traiana where he architected a turnaround of the services organization. Traiana was ultimately acquired by ICAP in a very successful and accretive acquisition. Keith was also the vice president of customer value/alliances at Kintana when it was acquired by Mercury Interactive. Prior to this, he was the chief customer officer at DigitalThink when the company went public on the NASDAQ in a highly successful IPO.
Keith holds a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from California Polytechnic State University.