The KNIME Team
Our aim is to build the most intuitive and widely-used environment for data science and give the community easy access to powerful capabilities.
KNIME is hiring
We're looking for enthusiastic people who are interested in helping to continue building greate software and supporting our awesome user base!Founders
KNIME was started by four software engineers that, over the years, have converged into different areas.
Michael Berthold
Thomas Gabriel
Peter Ohl
Bernd Wiswedel
Leadership
Over the years, at KNIME a number of other people have grown into leaders but we also added a number of great external talent to the KNIME Leadership Team:
Trevor Kaufman
CEO
Ralf Grüßhaber
CFORalf Grüßhaber is our CFO. He has seen both small and larger companies before and, most importantly, the transition as well. Oddly, though, he is also a loyal VfB fan - which explains why Christian supported bringing him on board.
Jennifer Ostyn
SVP RevenueJennifer Ostyn, our SVP Revenue refuses to move from peach country to the Insel Reichenau but it’s a tad understandable given the size of her family and her passion for Southern Baked Pies. Konstanz doesn’t have that - and neither is there a Peach Drop.
Iris Adä
VP Data & AnalyticsIris Adä is now our VP Data & Analytics but originally started out creating data with KNIME and wrote the data generation nodes (check out her famous "The new Iris Data" paper). She then went on working with customers in pretty much all possible roles and also setup support at KNIME. If she doesn't know what data sits where (and what it means), nobody does.
Christian Birkhold
vp productVP Product and therefore responsible for all things “product”. In his free time he is a suffering, pessimistic, bitter VfB Stuttgart fan. But he claims it’s easier to bear if he gets mocked about it, so we make sure he gets plenty of that.
Sasha Rezvina
VP MarketingSasha Rezvina is our VP Marketing and was originally brought on board to translate geek-speak into real-speak. But since she does that in her sleep we are now curious to see how her new found improvisation skills on the piano will find their way into our marketing material as well!
Shyam Sundar C S
VP techShyam leads Tech at KNIME, where he focuses on building scalable platforms, simplifying complexity, and helping teams move from ideas to execution. He brings a systems mindset to both tech and team dynamics, with a steady hand in moments of ambiguity.