LightStep CEO and leadership

Q: Who is the CEO of LightStep?

The CEO of LightStep is Ben Sigelman.

Q: Who is the founder of LightStep?

Ben Sigelman, Benjamin Cronin and Daniel Spoonhower founded LightStep.

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LightStep CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Ben Sigelman is the LightStep's CEO. LightStep has 118 employees, of which 10 are in a leadership position.

Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:

The LightStep executive team is 40% female and 60% male.
61% of the management team is White.
5% of LightStep management is Hispanic or Latino.
9% of the management team is Black or African American.

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Name & TitleBio

Ben Sigelman

Co-Founder and CEO

Benjamin Cronin

Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Partner Solutions

Daniel Spoonhower

Co-Founder, Chief Architect

Daniel “Spoons” Spoonhower is a cofounder at LightStep, a company that makes complex microservice applications more transparent and reliable. An expert in distributed tracing, he is a core contributor to the OpenTracing project, a CNCF project. Previously, Spoons spent almost six years as a staff software engineer on Google’s Infrastructure and Cloud Platform teams, where he ate lots of snacks and worked on various products. Spoons holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in computer science.

Tyrone Anderson

Global Head of Go To Market

Jen Hugo

Vice President of Finance

Rob Benson

J. Midori Kobayashi

Global Head of Engineering

Aaref Hilaly

Board Member

Francesca Ivanovich

Executive Assistant, CEO & COO

Francesca Ivanovich is an Executive Assistant, CEO & COO at LightStep and is based in San Francisco, California. She has worked as Executive Assistant at DeepCurrent, Brand Management Intern at DeepCurrent, and Product Launch and Design Internship at Valley Fresh Produce. Francesca studied at St Francis Central Coast Catholic High School and Pepperdine University.

Satish Dharmaraj

Board Member

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Name & TitleBio

Ben Sigelman

Co-Founder and CEO

Benjamin Cronin

Co-Founder and Chief Architect, Partner Solutions

Daniel Spoonhower

Co-Founder, Chief Architect

LightStep board members

Name & TitleBio

Aaref Hilaly

Board Member

Satish Dharmaraj

Board Member

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Updated November 18, 2022

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